Heart Zone

The reality of grace in salvation and the freedom that it brings to every believer should stir us to live for Christ from Romans 6:12-14.

The reality of grace in salvation should cause us to change our thinking with regards to living in the new life versus living the old life from Romans 6:5-11.

The reality of grace in salvation causes some to develop wrong thinking concerning the issue of sin in our lives from Romans 6:1-4.

It is easy to lose track of the reality that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Yet his resurrection insures our present condition and our future hope from 1 Corinthians 15:20-28.

Even though the Lord is working in our midst, we can completely miss what he is doing. Tragically, Jesus also warns that there are severe consequences for those who totally miss him from Luke 19:35-44.

In order to understand our acceptance with God, we need to understand the free gift that Jesus gave us in order to remove the offense we carry from Romans 5:12-21.

On our own, we had not chance to gain acceptance with God. However, Jesus loved us and died for us from Romans 5:6-11.

God’s acceptance of us means more than just our identification as his children. His acceptance of us results in an immediate change in how that relationship with Christ is expressed from Romans 5:1-5.

In a world where we are used to rules that guide every aspect of our lives, it is hard to grasp that our ability to abide by the rules has no bearing on God’s acceptance of us from Romans 4:13-25.

Humanity operates with ingrained thinking that our efforts affect our acceptance with God. However, those efforts have no bearing on God’s acceptance of us from Romans 4:1-12.

Faced with the reality of plight that humanity faces, we are provided the opportunity for acceptance with God. The reality is that all human beings do not want God and act accordingly from Romans 3:21-31.

In order to understand why the righteous shall live by faith, you need to understand the dilemma that all humanity faces. The reality is that all human beings do not want God and act accordingly from Romans 3:9-20.

In order to understand why the righteous shall live by faith, you need to understand the dilemma that all humanity faces. The third group facing peril are those who place their confidence in their religious actions from Romans 2:17-3:8.

In order to understand why the righteous shall live by faith, you need to understand the dilemma that all humanity faces. The second group facing peril are those who condemn others for their sins while they engage in the same sins from Romans 2:1-16.

In order to understand why the righteous shall live by faith, you need to understand the dilemma that all humanity faces. The first group facing peril are those who want to go it alone without God from Romans 1:18-32.

We are living in an interesting time where we are bombarded from all sides with views concerning what our faith is about. This often leads to our losing track of what our faith is really about from Romans 1:8-17.

It is easy to be crippled by failure. Even when we totally love Jesus. It is just as easy for Jesus to express grace from John 21:1-25.

We know that the birth of Jesus was in accordance with God’s plan for mankind. But it was also it was also rooted in the faith of those affected by his birth from Matthew 1:18-25.

In the midst of fear and doubt, the reality of Jesus calls his followers to faith from John 20:19-31.

In the midst of the emotion and pain of the dark moment, there is joy in the reality that Jesus is alive from John 20:1-18.

Jesus suffered an extreme death for you and I, yet he was still in control from John 19:17-42.

Jesus illustrates the importance of gratitude and our natural tendency to forget God from Luke 17:11-19.

Each person faces the reality of Jesus in their own way and most people end up rejecting him from John 19:1-16.

It is easy to give into the pressure and respond in ways that we never thought we would from John 18:12-27.

It is easy to forget that Jesus was in complete control as he begins his journey to the cross from John 18:1-11.