In our last message, we learned how spiritual poverty leads to riches. As we continue in the Beatitudes, Jesus now tells us that sorrow leads to joy: how is this possible? The sorrow and mourning that Christ refers to is not worldly sorry, but the sorrow that results over our sin. Grief and devastation over sin furthers our walk in sanctification, changes us more and more into the image of Chris, and God himself will comfort and bless those who mourn in this way.
John 11 cites the greatest of all Jesus' miracles documented in this gospel. The story of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead demonstrates his...
In today's passage, Paul addresses the Christian's thought life. In order to grow more and more in our Christ-likeness, we are called to have...