Articles Tagged 'Do' (Page 6)

Teach Us to Pray Intro: Don't Just Do Something...

by Phil Ware · Acts 1:14 · Prayer

Phil Ware begins a series of messages built around the disciples' request to Jesus to teach them to pray with today focusing on our need to pray first.

'I wish I had time just to sit around and pray,' my friend said. He walked away in a huff!

Truly See the Coming King

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Mark 10:45 · Messiah

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that many were blind to Jesus as the Messiah because he refused to be the kind of Messiah they expected; he was the upside down Messiah.

A King headed to a cross, the foal of a donkey, and a formerly blind man who followed along the way.

Whatever Happened to the Gift of Affirmation?

by Phil Ware · Luke 3:21-22 · Affirm

Phil Ware shares insight into affirmation of God's leaders from the life of Jesus and the ministry of Paul.

What I had missed was the human element of this event in Jesus' life. The heavenly Father was affirming his Son!

Free to Become

by Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 3:18 · Holy Spirit

Phil Ware reminds us on the eve of Independence Day in the U.S. and movements all around the world striving for freedom, that the Holy Spirit gives us the greatest freedom of all!

Thoughts of freedom permeate the thoughts of the people of our world right now.

A New Heart

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Matthew 5 · New Life

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and that he was not giving us a list of do's and don't do's, but was calling us to put into practice the way of God from the heart.

Jesus wasn't calling us to keep a list of do's and don'ts; he was challenging us to obey the Father from our hearts, in love.

In His Steps to Share His Light

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Matthew 5 · Discipleship

Phil Ware and James Nored, through word and video, remind us of our need to return to the Jesus-styled kind of life.

Jesus went up on the mountain and taught his followers to live the good life — to live as Jesus did!

Resurrection 2.5: Sarcastic Ridicule

by Phil Ware · John 7:1-7 · Resurrection

Phil Ware continues his Resurrection 2.0 series reminding us this week that Jesus' own family did not believe until after his resurrection.

Jesus knew the sting of sarcastic ridicule and unbelief from his family

U-Turn to Walk in God's Will

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Luke 3

Phil Ware and James Nored look at what the ministry of John the Baptizer meant for people in his day and call on us to share in this move toward the kingdom of God today.

Before we can be useful in living for God, we need to have our U-turn moment!

Resurrection 2.3: Unless...!

by Phil Ware · John 20:25-29 · Resurrection

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and focuses this week on Thomas.

If Jesus was truly raised from the dead, then this new reality would call for Thomas to radically re-orient his life

Resurrection 2.2: Sometimes, I Doubt!

by Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 15

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 focusing this week on the doubts of early disciples, and our times of doubting sometimes in our world.

Do doubts mean I don’t believe?

God's Character Shapes His People

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Exodus 20 · 10 Commandments

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of the 10 Commandments and the two divine principles of God and Jesus and call us to live them in our daily lives.

God alone had earned the right to speak truth into their lives, compassion into their hearts, and righteousness into their behaviors.

When Life is Unfair!

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Exodus 3 · Mountains · Moses

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of God's past stories of deliverance to help us know how to live in our times of unfairness and hold onto to hope in the middle of oppression.

God’s great story of redemption reminds us of three truths that we must take with us as we live in a world that always seems to tilt away from fairness.

Cruciformed #4: Only by Prayer

by Phil Ware · Mark 9 · Prayer

Phil Ware continues his series of posts from the discipleship section of Mark chapters 8-10, this time focusing on the boy the disciples of Jesus could not heal.

Unlike the father of the boy with the tormenting spirit, we don’t confess our unbelief and then ask for help in believing more is possible.

C.S. Lewis and the Struggle to Find Faith

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Hebrews 11 · Faith

James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to look at C.S. Lewis and his journey of faith along with a broken-hearted father and see how we might be able to find faith in our own lives.

The final destination of our journey to faith often depends upon the orientation of our hearts.

Don't Just Stand There

by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Holy Spirit · Power · Violence

Phil Ware finishes his series called 8GHT and focusses on Jesus' command for us to quit standing around and doing nothing, but to go and do something to redeem our lost world.

As our world sinks ever deeper into the abyss of division, evil, hatred, and violence, Jesus’ followers must do more than spout platitudes, post opinions, blame others, go to church, pray, and preach.

The Revolutionary Power of Witnesses

by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Witnessing · Witnesses · Testimony

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on being witnesses of the great things Jesus has done.

Let’s be witnesses with those here, near, and far (Acts 1:8) like the first followers of Jesus did!

What Time Is It?

by Phil Ware · Acts 1:1-11 · Rapture · Parousia · Jesus coming

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on restoring the kingdom.

Your world is fractured and lost. It needs to see what the way of the Kingdom looks like in real life today!

A Labor of Love

by Phil Ware · Luke 1 · Jesus · Christmas · Incarnation

Phil Ware shares some thoughts on what incarnation means as the collision of mortality and eternal, God in human flesh.

Jesus' birth was the collision of the gloriously divine and mundanely human. It was God entering our world through the birth canal of a woman.

God Is Not Surprised!

by Tom Norvell · Psalm 139

Tom Norvell reminds us of the truth of David's famous Psalm 139 about God's presence in every twist, turn, and chapter of our lives.

No matter where I go or what happens, God is not surprised, and He will not abandon His own!

The Women

by Phil Ware · Mark 14:50 · Women

Phil Ware continues his series of reflections on the importance of women in the Bible, to Jesus, to Paul, and to the early church.

They all abandoned Jesus except for this one group!

A Prayer for Jesse

by · Matthew 25:40

Jordan Harrell shares her own struggle to get off her comfortable bed and turn her compassionate feelings into compassionate action.

And then, there’s Jesse. Six-years-old and a bit small for his age with the most genuine gold-capped tooth smile.

As Jesus Did

by Tom Norvell · 1 John 4:19 · Love

Tom Norvell reminds us how Jesus could be and do everything he needed to be and do, but we can't, but we can love as Jesus loves.

We often let our human tendencies overpower our desire for His Spirit to do his work within us. But we can do this one thing well!

God's Providence? Perhaps!

by Steve Higginbotham · Romans 8:28 · Providence

Steve Higginbotham connects us with God's amazing work at getting people together and helping them live as brothers in Christ both in Bible times and today!

Is this any less amazing than Paul’s unlikely meeting with Onesimus?

Made to Be Complements

by Phil Ware · Genesis 1:26-31 · Women

Phil Ware continues his series on how God values women as seen in Scripture, this is part 2.

In the Lord, we are called to complement, complete, and bless each other so that each can be what she or he is created by God and re-created in Jesus to become!

The Holy Family, Incarcerated!

by Patrick D. Odum · Matthew 2 · Refugees

Patrick Odum challenges us to think critically and lovingly in light of our new-found awareness of baby Jesus' status as a refugee from violence.

Christ Church takes the story of the flight to Egypt and uses it to make us think about what the “old, old story” of Jesus tells us about this very contemporary issue.