Future Holiness–Future Joy

Revelation 21:1-4 
Aren’t weddings great?
I’ve never been to a wedding where people don’t wander around smiling.  Sometimes they smile so much that by the end of the day it hurts to lift the corners of your mouth.
The joy of the day just overflows to everyone involved.  All who are there are filled with joy and happiness.  [...]

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Worship In Holiness

1 Chronicles 16:23-29 
If someone were to come up to you this coming week and ask you what has God been doing in your life lately?  What would you say?  How would you answer them?  What would be on the tip of your tongue?  Just what would we tell that person who wants to know what [...]

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Holy Bodies, Holy Minds

Romans 12:1-2
For most of us this might be one of the most familiar passages in all of the Bible.  We have heard so it so often that we can hear it and finish it in our minds before the speaker finishes saying it.
The apostle Paul, in his letter to the church in Rome, has been [...]

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The Battle for Holiness

Remember the old cigarette brand  that had the the tag line at the end which said something like, “I’d rather fight than switch?”
The people in the ad would always be shown with a black eye because someone would offer them the wrong kind of cigarette and they would rather fight it out than switch.  It had [...]

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The Holiness of Christ

2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2
Do you ever look around as you come into church?  What do you see?  Do you see a building or do you see people?  Is the building done?  Are the people finished?  Do you see progress and changes being made or do you see only the things that need to be done?
When we look [...]

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The Pursuit of Holiness is Not An Option

1 Peter 1:13-16 
Peter begins this passage in his letter by saying that we are to prepare ourselves for action.
We don’t have the privilege of sitting around and waiting for things to happen to us.  We need to be active and take action in light of what God wants us to be.
We must learn to be [...]

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Ascension Day Promises

I would guess that everyone of us has stood at the airport waving good by to someone we love as they flew off to wherever they were going in this big world.  We could have waved to our parents, to our children, to other family members or even to friends
I would also guess that standing [...]

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Assurance or Deception

The apostle John writes his first letter to because he wants us, his readers, to know that we can have assurance of our salvation or we can be deceived concerning our salvation.  He writes his letter to show us the ways to see the difference between the two.  We need to know both the deceptions [...]

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To Know the Holy One First

Jeremiah 9:23-24
Most likely every place we have ever worked has sent us to basic training.
The military has basic training to introduce recruits to the military life.  Schools and businesses have basic training called orientation to introduce new students or employees to the world they are entering.  Such training teaches people how to find the copier, where [...]

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Holy, Holy, Holy

None of us accomplishes anything in life without an understanding of what we need to do or to become in our lives.  We do not lose weight without thinking about what we want to look like as a result of dieting.  We don’t go to the supermarket without thought to what meals we wish to [...]

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