Find your hope for today. Love, learn, and live the Word with Rick Warren. Oct 3, 2014 Facebook Biblical Meditation: Get Every Ounce of Nutrition from God’s Word by Rick Warren “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do [...]

GRACE, MY ORIENTATION Orientation means, “To align or position with respect to a point or system of reference…to adjust in relation to facts and principles (e.g. a compass); knowing where you are and where you should be.” To be “grace-oriented” is to be focused on Christ Jesus, who is “full of grace and truth”. To [...]

The focal and pivotal point of God’s revealed Word, the Bible-from Genesis through Revelation-to Man is JESUS. Jesus – Genesis 3:15 cf Galatians 3:16 Jesus – Matthew 17:4-8 cf 1 Peter 1:16ff Jesus – Luke 24:27ff Jesus – John 12:21 Jesus – 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Jesus – Hebrews 12:1-4 cf 1:3, 8; 3:1 Jesus – [...]

Bad Religion – by Rubel Shelly Mean spirited —Bad religion. I’ve seen it,tasted it, and participated in it in my early ministry. But that is not what Jesus called us to be and do. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By [...]

There is much confusion about this thing called love. Authentic love is best defined as, “a profound involvement in the well-being of another; loving the unlovely unconditionally.” To be moved or motivated by love means “to provide with an incentive; move to action; compel.”Love, for the follower of Christ, is a must (2 Corinthians 5:14).Love is [...]