Stumble Never Again

Stumble Never Again
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble 2 Peter 1:10
It’s a Promise
This is huge! We have a covenant with Jesus Christ that declares if we do these ‘things’ we will not stumble. (I do not know about [...]

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Currency of Compassion Halts Global Food Crisis

By WESS STAFFORD
(*Reprinted without permission from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Thursday, October 30, 2008
While the United States is reeling from the stock market’s plunge and the credit crisis, there are severe worldwide consequences to America’s economic woes that have been almost entirely ignored. Most people have not given any thought to the millions of victims of our [...]

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A World in Crisis: Floods in Honduras and Guatemala, Religious Conflict in India

A World in Crisis: Floods in Honduras and Guatemala, Religious Conflict in India
UPDATE: More rain is predicted to hit Honduras over the next few days, adding to the extensive flooding that has already occurred throughout the country and almost 200,000 people have been relocated to temporary shelters. Some Compassion-assisted child development centers [...]

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So You Have an Identity Crisis

So You Have an Identity Crisis
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ… 2 Peter 1:1a
A Name Shift
Most Christians you talk with love Peter. We like him because he is relatable–he stumbles so many times in his walk with Jesus, but in the end he always learns his lesson. Peter was also a humble [...]

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You Are a Failure

The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed… 1 Peter 5:1
Peter’s Exhortation
First Peter was written only months before horrific persecution of the church was to occur, for on July 19, [...]

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Choosing the Right Tree

Choosing the Right Tree
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God…There is also an antitype which now saves us–baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who [...]

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Solution: God’s Head, Our Hands

It is not a human right
To stare not fight while broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find the mercy for the need
Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession
It is not too far a cry
Too much to try to help the least [...]

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Catalytic Consciences

…Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 1 Peter 3:15-16
Conscience Decisions
Without a doubt, experience is [...]

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MEN!

Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7
Knowledge
A husband must understand his wife in the same manner Christ understands His bride. We have for an example [...]

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Six Words Women Hate to Hear (Maybe)

Wives, likewise be submissive to you own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe you chaste conduct accompanied by fear. Do not let your adornment be merely outward–arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel–rather [...]

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