Salt is used in nearly every American recipe. It adds flavor, preserves food and enhances how food tastes. When it comes to the popular scripture in the Gospel of Matthew (5:13), we often focus on our role as Christians being about making God look good, preserving Him and increasing others interest in Him. We’re supposed to “spice” God up and make Him more “flavorful” so other people find Him appealing.
In worship and prayer, body language speaks to God just as much as words. Read a personal journey in discovering how body language communicates to God.
On the cross, Christ proposed to take all your sins, all your imperfections, all your mistakes and mess-ups upon himself so you no longer have to bear that misery.
The end of the second stanza of Silent Night notes, “Jesus, Lord at thy birth. Jesus, Lord at thy birth.” Jesus was Lord from the very first day of His life. We may think of this regularly, but we hardly contemplate how that impacts us on a human level. Jesus’ purpose was to be our Lord. He had that purpose placed upon Him from the very moment He entered this world.
Satan Doesn’t Want You to Know Yourself Satan tries to distract you from getting to know yourself. If you truly knew yourself, you’d know God. When you accept Christ into your life, the Holy Spirit
You feel the pressure rising. Your teachers expect straight A’s, your youth pastor expects you to be at church every week, your parents expect you to act with respect and your coach expects you to play your best. Everyone has such high expectations from you, it seems impossible to keep up.
“The world often times has greater expectations of the church than the church has for itself.” If this is the case, then the church body (the body of believers) is failing the world. Not because we’re hypocrites, conservative or split on the topic of homosexuality, but because the world is looking for a Savior and we’re not giving Him to them. As the Church, we know the only Savior is Jesus. The world wants a Savior, they’re being drawn to the Savior, they need a Savior and we’re hiding Him from them.
Building a strong foundation that will last takes a lot of effort. Love doesn’t happen overnight. We should be devoted to our relationship with God.
One of our major goals as teenagers is to gain independence. To do this, we have to learn responsibility and realize what it means to care for ourselves. We are not meant to be independent, but rather we are supposed to be mature.
Your worship style is how you express yourself and your love for the Lord. Here are nine styles of worship that might compliment your character:
