Life Bible Church

Disunity among siblings leads to rivalry and hatred, and can lead to violence. If we will abandon evil speech and strife, and begin to lovingly support one another as God intended, we will have each other's hearts!

To have the heart of your child, they must KNOW that you love them unconditionally. The way forward is to identify emotional deposits and withdrawals, and to make more deposits. There is much opposition to our families, but Jesus is the conqueror!

A wife who builds her husband builds her own house.  When she spends meaningful time with her husband, encourages him, and responds to him with enthusiasm, he will give her his heart!

Honor and obedience to parents opens a doorway of blessing in a child's life- but parents want more than that from this relationship! To the degree that children open up, seek restoration, and seek to know their parents, they will give you their hearts. 

How Did Jesus love the church, His bride, so well? He left his high and lofty throne and entered into her world. When a husband is thoughtfully engaged in his wife's world, selflessly serving, practicing good communication, and growing as a provider and protector, she will give him her heart. 

 We all live out of whatever we believe to be true about ourselves, and that identity increasingly defines us. Sadly, a form of false humility has permeated the church, urging the Sons of God to put off their sonship and revert to an identity under sin. But what does God say? Hear the call of the Father to the Sons: Lift up your heads, all you Saints! You are all sons of the Most High!

Leaders share their visions going into the rest of 2022.

Many of us, when we become restless, tend to uproot and relocate to make life interesting again. In that process, we fail to recognize God's universal law of change: major change restarts the seasons, and they simply cannot be rushed! To make it to maturity and fruitfulness, we must regard God's Word to us: "Dwell in the land; cultivate faithfulness."

We all, as creatures of habit, settle into certain routines. Within those routines, there is a floor is made up of comforts and a ceiling made of the things that expose our weakness. The only way to enter a new season with God is, by His grace, to break through the old resistance and make it our new support.

Wisdom is the great need of every human heart, but there is a huge problem: foolishness is woven into our characters by sin. We will see that God has 2 primary means by which we can we overcome foolishness and become wise.

As Christians, we belong to the ever-advancing Kingdom of God. The devil's work in the world is deceptive- he tries to give the illusion that the kingdom of darkness is advancing and prevailing. God's Word shows us clearly that our victory comes as we continually hold on to hope.

God’s children should praise God with great hope for this life and eternity because He expressed His grace and love before time toward us in Christ by choosing us to be His own.

The words of the wise are gracious. That does not mean we never confront any issues, but it changes how we approach people. We have to choose to be on God's side with our words, or we will end up working for the accuser.

There are subtle ways that we may be causing harm with our words. Following on from last week's message about our words, we will see some specific ways we are warned not to use our tongues for harm, and what kind of speech we are called to.

The power of life and death are in the tongue. How are we using our words: to give life, or take it?

Things are looking dire for God's people. But this can't be fixed by bowing. Mordecai has to trust God and take bold action so that God can work through him- and Queen Esther- to an incredibly satisfying redemption.

That someone would rise from the dead is fairly unbelievable, right? And yet, all our faith and hope depend on the fact that Jesus did exactly that. We will explore together the unbelievable reality of His resurrection and see how we can take the road out of skepticism into simple faith.

To Mordecai, being a Jew meant something. He refused to bow to the insolent Haman, which sparked a series of events that looked dire for God's people. But this couldn't be fixed by bowing- Mordecai had to see it through so that God could work an incredibly satisfying redemption.

Faith is often needed most when it makes the least sense. Abraham waited 25 years for a promised gift, and then the unexpected happened- God asked for it back. Abraham was learning to trust God only, to cling to Him only, and even to believe that God will provide for us what He requires of us.

What if God's call on your life was really, really hard? Jeremiah was God's prophet, to be sure, but he was the lone voice of truth among a thousand lies. He sat alone, he stood for truth, and was uniquely rewarded by God for his faithfulness. 

Stephen was a table waiter with some pretty remarkable qualities. He was also counted worthy to be the first martyr for Jesus' name. We also can bring lasting change if we will let God fill us with faith and wisdom, grace and power.

Sometimes, hard choices will be made that will cost us a lot. Have we defined the lines we will not cross? Have we decided that we will worship God only, or do we compromise and bow to the idol of gold? If we choose God's way, the 4th man, the Son of God Himself, will be with us in the fire.

If there were an idol in my heart, would I want to know it? What if the idol were the most sinister kind of all- an idol of my own image, and idol of self? God is offering to help us to see this idol for what it is, to destroy it, and worship Him alone.

There are only 2 kinds of wisdom- worldly and godly wisdom- and each comes from one of the 2 kingdoms- God’s and Satan’s. Each kingdom possesses a fountain that sends forth its wisdom to all who drink there- one giving life, the other death.

The tongue speaks whatever our hearts are full of, and we can be so conflicted inside! We have to ask, "What does my mind/heart constantly feed upon?" God wants us to see that inner purity is ours when we drink from the fountain of God's wisdom alone.