No Struggle, No Progress
No Struggle, No Progress
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Powerful people need to negotiate wisely within the people with power. They should realize that God is the most powerful being a person can possibly encounter. If they are wise, they will face God someday. If they are wise the safest thing to do is to get on God’s side. Nebuchadnezzar did not come to the conclusion until after he had received the message from God. Daniel urged him to repent, but he went back to his old ways. Do not allow pride to get in your path as Nebuchadnezzar did. If you w...
Submitted By Dr. Joseph W. Capers Sr. Many Christians feel that they are not called by God because of their circumstances. Some have made wrong decisions or have been discouraged by others. They underestimate their ability and talents. Success and failure depends on the standards of measurement. We often judge ourselves and others by our inadequate yardstick. For the comparison of success or failure we must use the proper instrument for measuring. God is impressed by man's achievement that...
Stewardship is the management of that which belongs to another. We belong to God by redemption. We are not our own. We were bought with a price. God gave himself for us. We are not our own. We have been bought with the greatest price that could have been paid for us. We belong to God. All we have or ever expect to be are His. Our lives and our times are not our own to control and waste. When we withhold things from the service of God, we are robbing God of that which belongs to Him. We are...
Stewardship is the management of that which belongs to another. We belong to God by redemption. We are not our own. We were bought with a price. God gave himself for us. We are not our own. We have been bought with the greatest price that could have been paid for us. We belong to God. All we have or ever expect to be are His. Our lives and our times are not our own to control and waste. When we withhold things from the service of God we are robbing God of that which belongs to Him. We are...
Christmas is the second most important celebration in the Christian Year, after Easter. It has been celebrated on December 25 since A.D. 336. This date, December 25 was fist placed in a liturgical calendar for the year 336. Of all the major Christian festivals, Christmas is the most recent in origin. The word Christmas can be traced back to the year 1038. The word Christmas is a contraction of “Christ’s Mass”. Dionysius Exiguus fixed Christmas at December 25. He also began the practice of datin...
Grace is the power to forgive and begin anew. It is God’s boundless and undeserved love for man as it is realized in man’s experience (Westall, 1993). Grace is a mode of existence for the Christian. We should synchronize our lives around the grace of God (Evans, 1982). Grace is love in action. James designates it as the royal law (James 2:8). Grace is where God gives you what you don’t deserve. It is where God is good when you are bad. It is where He is kind when you are unkind. It is where...
To change one’s life is to change one’s thinking. Life is a principle or force describing the distinctive quality of living beings. It is a gift of God. Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on this planet (Marian Wright Edelman). What is life? Life is a principled or force describing the distinctive quality of living beings. Life is a gift of God. Life is progress and not a station (Dr. Gardner C. Taylor). If life is a progress, a change of thinking is essential....
The earliest name of the Christian Church was “The Way”. It consisted of a group of persons professing trust in Christ. The symbol for the early church in the history of Christianity was the “bat”. The church was an ark of salvation for the lost. The church is described as the body of Christ in Paul’s letters. Some theologians believe that the church exists only in the preaching, hearing and obedience to the Kerygma (the act of preaching). The content of preaching in the earliest name of the Ch...
