Christian Attributes
Love
You can also watch on our Facebook page. Love can be such a confusing word, can’t it? We love our spouse, but we also love our pets and certain flavors of Kopp’s custard. We love God, but we also love our favorite restaurants and sports teams. We love our parents and our kids, but we also love our home. If love means different things to different people, are we even sure what it means? What better day, than Valentine’s Day,…
Brotherly Kindness
You can also watch on our Facebook page. “He ain’t heavy! He’s my brother!” was one of the most popular songs of the 60’s. The original name of this song came from a Vietnam War photo where an American solider is carrying a Vietnamese man on his shoulders. A journalist asked the soldier if he’d been carrying the man very far, and the soldier smiled at the camera and said: “He ain’t heavy! He’s my brother!” That’s the point we…
Godliness
You can also watch on our Facebook page. You’ve probably heard the phrase: “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” Is that true? It’s not a Bible passage, but godliness is the Christian quality we’ll focus on this weekend in our “Grow Your Faith” series. Godliness has to do with my attitude toward God and his Word and his ways in my life. Godliness has to do with God being at the center of everything I do. He’s the reason for everything…
Perseverance
You can also watch on our Facebook page. Flogged and beaten repeatedly, stoned and shipwrecked several times ….. Everywhere the Apostle Paul turned, he faced struggles and hardships. Struggles were part of a typical day in the life of Paul. What could possibly motivate him to keep pushing on and to persevere in the face of all that? Thankfully, our typical days don’t look like Paul’s. But our days have plenty of challenges. Join us this Sunday at St. Paul’s…
Self-Control
You can also watch on our Facebook page. Four-year-old Joe was well-behaved except for one quirk – he didn’t like wearing shoes, ever. Joe’s parents repeatedly told him he had to keep them on when he was at church for his first VBS. Would he, could he resist the temptation to take his shoes off during VBS, especially when the art project was making a plaster cast foot print of each child? This week’s Christian quality is “Self-Control” in our…
Goodness
You can also watch on our Facebook page. Our New Year’s Eve message centered on the words from Second Peter below. God wants us to know that we can either choose to grow in our faith, or choose to decline. God wants us to know that as we express the 7 Christian attributes listed below in our daily lives, we not only please God, they also make our lives better. For this very reason, make every effort to add to…