From the Blog
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God Is Father
What do you know about God as Father? What do you believe about him? Are you focused on knowing our Heavenly Father in Greater way? We live in a world determined to maneuver life, put a successful outcome together without the instruction of the God who created life in the first place.
In Romans 8, the apostle Paul encouraged the believers in Rome that they had been adopted into the family of God and could now know God as Father In Christ. -
God is Merciful
The saying goes: only the strong survive. From marketing campaigns and sports teams to climbing the corporate ladder, strength is one of the highest values in our culture – we spoke about that last week as we explored the mightiness of God. Mercy, on the other hand, often doesn’t make the cut when we talk about things we value. In a society placing more and more emphasis on power, mercy has almost become a foreign concept. So, what is mercy all about and should it even matter to us?
In the apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he told the believers that they could know God's rich mercy. We can know this rich mercy of God. -
Becoming Pure in Heart
If you’ve taken an honest inventory of your heart then you know that broken things, unclean desires well up from there. You know that this blessing is truly impossible because your heart is so broken either by your own desires or by external circumstances that have made your heart filthy over time.
Who can possibly understand it? Who can make it pure? Only our Lord and Savior Jesus. In 1 Peter chapter 1, the apostle Peter encouraged the persecuted believers scattered throughout Asia that through the mercy and power of God they could become pure in heart even in their time of exile. We can become pure in heart by God’s power. -
Receiving God’s Mercy
Mercy is defined as compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. Mercy is choosing to forgive when you have every right to punish.
We can only be merciful when we have first received God’s mercy. In 1 Peter chapter 2, the apostle Peter expounds on Jesus’ 5th beatitude and instructed the believers scattered throughout Asia that since they had received God’s mercy for themselves they could now live His mercy out among the nations. We can understand how receiving God’s mercy empowers us to be merciful.