Next Steps

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP TWO: day 2 Surrender and unleash the Spirit’s power within you There is one phrase, one teaching repeated by Jesus more times in the Gospels than anything else. Six different times,…

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP TWO: day 1 Surrender and unleash the Spirit’s power within you Where do I find the power to change? If you’ve struggled with addiction long enough, you’ve asked yourself this question…

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP ONE: day 5 Fill your soul with the hope of Jesus Let’s say you’re a baseball player and you’re about to bat. It’s the bottom of the ninth, two outs, the bases are…

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP ONE: day 4 Fill your soul with the hope of Jesus What does it look like on a practical level to become a person of hope? How exactly do you fill…

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP ONE: day 3 Fill your soul with the hope of Jesus The Old Testament character of Job was having more than just a bad day. An ancient follower of God, his…

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP ONE: day 2 Fill your soul with the hope of Jesus When Jesus walked onto the pages of human history, he did so with a powerful claim and a specific promise:…

The following is a devotion from my message series 10 Steps to Freedom. I hope these devotionals help you experience lasting freedom in Jesus! STEP ONE: day 1 Fill your soul with the hope of Jesus Can I ever be free? That’s a question you have probably asked yourself more than once, in those dark,…

When you look in the pages of the New Testament, you’ll see that the Apostle Paul made incredible sacrifices (2 Corinthians 11:23-28) to advance the Kingdom of God. What was it that gave him the mindset to make such sacrifices? We get four keys in an earlier letter (1 Corinthians 4:1-12): 1. Know your place. This, then, is…

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 This past Sunday I preached from 1 Corinthians and…

When you enter into any discussion about spiritual gifts, sooner or later the topic will come up, “What about the miraculous gifts?” I recently spoke on the topic of spiritual gifts and wanted to carve out some space to discuss the issue of the miraculous (or signs) gifts: prophecy (depending on how you define it),…

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