First Christian Church

Things may not always be good, but if we taste and see we will discover that God is always good.

The One who wants us to return to Him is One who will ultimately assert His will through His Son.

When there is sin in the camp, the One who calls us to return to Him asks us to cooperate with Him in getting it out.

The One who wants us to return to Him is the one who is our light when it seems dark, the One who accomplishes what seems can't be accomplished through us.

We have an enemy who accuses us, and we give him the ammunition to accuse us with, but the God who wants us to return to Him does not listen to those accusations.

We often thing we are living in poverty, but the one who wants us to return to Him says we are living in prosperity.

Hard as it might be to believe, God doesn't always want world peace. Here is when and why world peace isn't always His will.

We sometimes allow space to develop between us and God. In those times, God calls us to return to Him.

We cannot be like Jesus unless we eat like Jesus.

What did we get for Christmas? We got the right to become children of God.

What did we get that first Christmas? We got The Light.

What did we get for Christmas? We got The Word which reveals the heart of the Father God.

How do we look away from our threats and look to Jesus. I've come up with a few ideas...

Paul not only makes a beautiful statement in 1 Timothy 4:4-5; he makes a statement which shows us how to enter and enjoy the many graces of God.

I asked Jesus how I could escape fear. Here's what He told me.

God doesn't want us to live in fear, but, as I realized through a weekend sleeping on an army cot, that's exactly what I was doing.

The Church has a God-given mission, but that mission isn't what you might think it is.

God has brought us into His family business, and doing that business is a simple matter of showing others what He has shown us.

Jesus doesn't just teach us about the Kingdom in Matthew 13; He trains us in the Kingdom.

You can't be spiritually mature if you are emotionally immature. That's why we are pursuing emotionally healthy spirituality.

Hope may be something that looks to the future, but it is also something very important for the present.

Martha was anxious and distracted by many things. We often are as well. But Jesus teaches both her and us that only one thing is needed.

We are in more relationships than we know, and God calls us to do specific things in each of them.

Jesus had no doubt about what we would do if we followed Him. He said we would catch men.

God loves us, and He wants us to understand that He loves us.

How do you work the problem of life? You have to start with the first question?

John shows us church fathers, and these fathers show us a lot about The Faith.

Peace doesn't just sound good to Paul. To him, it is the way of The Faith.

How can we be with the God of love and peace? By listening to the appeals of our apostles and prophets.

The God of peace and love will be with us if we want to grow up.

Deborah was a mother in Israel because she cared.

Jesus finally gets what He wants: people using what they have to do His mission.

Jesus isn't finished with The Church yet; there is another group He wants to bring into and make part of The Church.

The work of Christ is great, but it is not easy. It will be opposed, and it will overcome that opposition.

Jesus didn't just enter Jerusalem; He didn't just enter Jerusalem as a king; He entered Jerusalem as a conquering king.

We don't always know who we really are, but Jesus does, and He tells us on the Road to Jerusalem.

Jesus experienced an ingratitude on the Road to Jerusalem, an ingratitude that was not just ingratitude but a missing of the Kingdom.

Does God dance? It is an odd but all-important question which Jesus answers on the Road to Jerusalem.

The Road to Jerusalem begins which Jesus overcoming opposition to reach His destination.

God recently gave me two great words about relationships. On Valentine's Day, I share those words with you.

The final prayer is somewhat less primal but just as beautiful. It is Wow, the worshiping of God.

Thanks is another basic and very beautiful prayer.

Sorry is another primal prayer, and it is quite beautiful as well.

Help - perhaps the most basic and a quite beautiful kind of prayer.

What is the harvest? It is a blessing, a gift from God.

What is the harvest? It is something to be shared.

Many of us are living in perceived poverty, but God wants us to live into His abundance.

I didn't know what the mission looks like. You might not know, either. But Jesus does, and He shows us in John 15:16.

Jesus was sinned against in a great way, yet He still forgave.

Jesus not only had an identity from the Father. He also knew that identity and operated on that identity.

Jesus did not avoid people. He interacted with people.