What is the focus of your life? What is our defining trait? Is it our natural ancestry? Our political association? Our circumstance or financial position? It should be Jesus.
There is a reason God speaks to us through certain people. He often chooses people with whom we can relate. Peter is an extraordinarily ordinary. He does very well sometimes and terribly others. He feels out of place and unfit for the job. He is a lot like us.
Jim Ford shares about real life witnessing by living with integrity. Let your yes be yes, and your no, no.
We have given up too much territory. It is time to move forward. Nothing can stop the church that moves in the power of God.
Many people have died to give us the ability to read the Word of God. They preserved it and passed it on, trusting us. Do we know the Word? Have we passed on the Word to the next generation?
We need to understand how to honor, how to be and how to forgive fathers. Everyone can do with some help.
For what purpose were we saved? What is our reason for being here and not going right to heaven? Does God have a plan for us? An occupation to which we should be applying our time and energy?
Moving from the Judicial metaphors for salvation to the more Familial, we look at Regeneration and Adoption. These two drive home the realities that we have been Changed and Chosen. You are (or can be) a child of God.