All-Weather Friends
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you?  If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do [...]

100 Percent
I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is [...]

Real Simple
“Pray then in this way: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.  Your kingdom come.  Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.  And do not bring us to the time of trial, [...]

The Pattern of Our Worship
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.  Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two [...]

In God We Trust
“And why do you worry about clothing?  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today [...]

From the Heart
He said to him, “`You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and [...]

Red Light, Green Light
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, `God, I thank you that I am [...]

We grow as we devote ourselves to loving the God we meet in Jesus Christ.

Welcome to “Paths to Growth.” During the next 42 days, we’re going to explore six spiritual paths that are part of the Christian journey of spiritual growth. Try not to think of these paths as six separate routes but rather as intertwining paths making up a larger single pathway – the pathway to God. At [...]