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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Silent Cry for Help
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. –Romans 8:26 "Groaning too deep for words"?…
Our Righteousness: Absolutely Worthless Credit
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost…
