Even though we start out with faith, we can quickly be distracted by an emphasis on doing things for God. There is a way to start living by faith again from Galatians 5:7-15.
Living in spiritual bondage is a choice. Believers often choose slavery because they don’t truly understand who they are from Galatians 4:21-31.
It is easy to forget the impact of grace on our lives when we first came to Christ by faith. The problem is that we can find quickly find ourselves enslaved again from Galatians 4:8-20.
Every believer has to choose to live up to their true standing as a child of God since they are no longer slaves from Galatians 4:1-7.
The Law has ensnared believers in an endless cycle of spiritual defeat until the reality of faith has set us free from Galatians 3:23-29.
As we are caught in a cycle of spiritual defeat, there needs to be a realization that something exposes the reality we need someone to help us break free from the bondage from Galatians 3:19-22.
We often find ourselves in a cycle of spiritual defeat. Our natural tendency to seek a greater relationship with the Lord by our efforts from Galatians 3:15-18.
It is virtually impossible to please God and gain his acceptance by our religious and moral actions. In fact, any effort to be religiously and morally righteous only proves that we need a Savior from Galatians 3:10-14.
It is easy to get off tract in the Christian life by focusing on our efforts to gain acceptance with God. Yet, the blessings of the new life only come through a life marked by faith from Galatians 3:1-9.
To many people, the Christian life is simply a matter of learning to cope with our sins. They truly don't understand what was accomplished for them in salvation from Galatians 2:20.
As a follower of Jesus Christ, you have to be aware that grace does not enable you to sin freely. Rather grace is the basis for a new life from Galatians 2:17-21.
As a follower of Jesus Christ, you have to be aware that there is a battle to impose additional requirements on your life for salvation from Galatians 2:1-16.
As a follower of Jesus Christ, Salvation from God does not come through the efforts of men. It is a result of God’s grace that results in personal transformation from Galatians 1:11-24.
It is easy to be confused about the nature of God's grace in salvation when you live in a church culture filled with expectations from Galatians 1:6-10.
Living for the future reality of Jesus' Second Coming in grounded in a belief that one day we will all have to stand before his throne of judgment from Matthew 25:31-46.
It is easy to operate with the mistaken assumption that how we live our lives now has no bearing on our future with the Lord from Matthew 25:14-30.
It is one thing to know that Jesus Christ will be returning. It is a completely different thing to be found ready for his coming from Matthew 25:1-13.
Knowledge requires accountability. Having an understanding of what will happen in the future requires one to act on that information from Matthew 24:45-51.
When you hear about the things that will take place before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, it is only natural to wonder if this can be true. But Jesus confirms his teaching concerning the end of all things from Matthew 24:32-44.
As followers of Jesus Christ, we are overwhelmed by the horrors we are experiencing now. But Jesus tells us that there is something coming that is beyond anything the world has ever seen from Matthew 24:15-31.
The question concerning the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ comes down to a choice to believe or not from John 20:24-31.
Jesus taught us that in order to truly live, you will have to die from John 12:20-28.
Part 2 - As followers of Jesus Christ, we want to live at peace with all men. But in spite of our efforts to be accepted, we find continual rejection from Matthew 24:9-14.
Part 1 - It is easy to think that we are living in the end-times with all of the terrible things happening in the world. Surprisingly, Jesus warned his followers that these things are just the beginning from Matthew 24:1-8.
Part 11 - It is easy to lose track of what will ultimately happen to this world when Jesus Christ returns. This leads us to being unprepared for the future from 2 Peter 3:10-18.
Part 10 - In a world that mocks the hope of every believer that Jesus will return for his own, you can be sure that the Lord will fulfill his promise from 2 Peter 3:1-9.
Part 9 - To guard your faith against threat of false teachers, you must actively vet the teachers in your life from 2 Peter 2:10-22.
Part 8 - In a world where evil and false teaching seems to flourish, there is a greater reality of a God who will set all things right from 2 Peter 2:4-9.
Part 7 - Your faith is threatened by some who would distort your understanding of the gospel. Surprisingly, that threat comes from within the church from 2 Peter 2:1-3.
Part 6 - It is easy for your faith to be simply a set of abstract beliefs. But the faith is really so much more from 2 Peter 1:16-21.