Revelation 2:1-5

Into whose image are we trying to make new Christians conform? So often we force new Christians into the mold of something or someone who isn't really Jesus.

"Dear Precious Disciple, The world can be a bewildering place for you as you seek to live for Me in a culture controlled by the evil one. This..."

Can we really look back to find the way to move forward? Mark Frost continues a series by http://interimministrypartners.com team members on how a church can discover its mission.

Why is the loss of passion for the Lord taken so lightly? For God, losing our loving passion for His Son and His Kingdom is a major concern and we should repent!

"Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full..."

Was it more exciting when you first began? While time and daily life may wear away the newness of a marriage or our first love to Jesus, we can and must recapture it.

Can you keep running and not grow weary? Burn out seems to happen more and more frequently, but when see why it happens, we realize that folks are losing sight of the goal and are often motivated for the wrong reasons.

When does Jesus close a church's doors? When a church forgets about love and focuses on rules and regulation, it ceases to be a church. The church of Jesus is an organism, not an organization.

Are we the older brothers? Phil Ware continues his series on the prodigal son called The Journey Home focusing this week on the older brother and the hardest lesson to lose: that it is better in the Father's house!

When we need him most, God is close to us Jesus has assured us that he is close to us in our most trying times

The word In the end, the church is the group of people that belong to God. Other meanings may cloud our understanding, but we need to see that that's what the church is.

What do you not want anyone else to know? God knows all about us and will make it all public one day.

Have you heard this call lately? Valentine's Day has us thinking about love, but the real love, even more than the love of a mother or a lover, is the love of Jesus for us.