The Importance of Doubt
The curate's search had already greatly widened the sphere of his doubts. But if there be such a thing as truth, every fresh doubt is yet another fingerpost pointing toward its dwelling. -George Macdonald, The Curate's Awakening A few days ago, I was in conversation with someone who, although raised Christian, had too many doubts and had walked away from the faith. He felt that since he had so many doubts, he couldn't be considered Christian. For most, faith and doubt are
Be A Peacemaker: Take a good look around you—even at your own behavior!
When God directs us to do or be something, our obedience is the very thing that invokes happiness for us. As believers, we are called to be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9) and blessed when we are. Take a good look around you—even take a look at your behavior. How do you react to your family members when you think no one else can see your actions? When has cordiality been more desperately needed than today? I don’t remember a time when there has
A State of Being: Guilt and Shame
From the Bible’s point of view, guilt, real guilt, is first and foremost not a feeling. It’s a state of being. It's the position of being out of line with our God by virtue of our sin. It can be fixed only by being placed into a right relationship with him, a solution that’s brought about only by God himself, not by us. It is his specialty to fix this problem. Resorting to our own measures only makes things worse. In
Call Me Papa: How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”-Romans 8:15 We’re spoiled and don’t know it. Those of us raised in the Christian faith take for granted the idea that God is “Our Father.” Taught from childhood to pray The Lord’s Prayer, and being accustomed to most Christian prayers beginning with the word “Father,” we are little aware of how shocking
The Munich Bible Studies from Starnberg Fellowship
Night and day I pondered Romans until I grasped the truth. I felt myself to be reborn. -Martin Luther Sometimes our worship loses its passion. Our prayer life becomes stagnant. We forget why we are serving God. And slowly, subtly, the world's ways become our ways. The New Testament book of Romans addresses these problems, showing us how we can break out of old patterns and become new in Christ. Join us for this in-depth Bible study on Romans. In assessing the importance of
Join Us ! Weekly Invite – 13 June 2021
Join us either at Christuskirche Or on Zoom @ 16:00 hrs for Worship! Sunday, 13 June 2021 Scriptures: Matthew 16:13-20 Sermon: Who Do You Say I Am? Mike Page, preaching Click Here for Our Zoom Service Meeting ID: 890 8270 2153 Passcode: 801054 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89082702153?pwd=VXlKKzN0d1IyeWQ5TG5ta0c1Qlo5Zz09 Visit us on Facebook: facebook.com/StarnbergFellowship or starnbergfellowship.de If you would like prayer, or to speak to Pastor John, please contact him at [email protected].
Join Us! Weekly Invite – 16 May 2021
Join Us on Zoom @ 16:00 hrs for Worship! Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." -1 Peter 1:13-17 Many of our
Aligning with God
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." -1 Peter 1:13-17 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right
Join Us! Weekly Invite – 25 April 2021
Something inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible. –C.S.
Resentment and Blame
I love this anecdote about Oscar Wilde at a dinner party. Here’s how Interesting Literature tells it: At a dinner party, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde were discussing the truth about resentment and envy, how a friend’s success often makes one unhappy, Wilde entertained the party to a story. “The devil,” said Wilde, “was once crossing the Libyan Desert, and he came upon a spot where a number of small fiends were tormenting a holy hermit. The sainted man easily shook off their evil suggestions. The
