Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 17 View this email in your browser Be Sure – Day 17 Beware of using a veneer of obedience to mask a selfish heart. Making sure that your faith works does not mean that the Christian life is all about rules. The Pharisees in Jesus’ time relentlessly … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 15 View this email in your browser Be Sure – Day 15 This week we turn our hearts toward the assurance that our faith actually works. The Bible warns against having a mere “wordy” faith – a faith that only professes to know Christ but does not … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 14 View this email in your browser Be Sure! Day 14 God wants us to have assurance of our salvation. He does not want us to live wondering and worrying each day whether we are truly saved. That is why the Bible makes the plan of salvation … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 13 View this email in your browser Be Sure! Day 13 Be sure of forgiveness! Ephesians 1:7 says, “In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us ….” Only the shed … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 12 View this email in your browser Be Sure! Day 12 This week we are affirming the truth – we can live with the assurance that we have been forgiven. We ourselves don’t restore fellowship with God. It is God’s forgiveness that restores fellowship with our Creator. … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 11 View this email in your browser Be Sure! Day 11 Yesterday, we considered the directions of east and west. In Psalm 103:11, we read another set of directions: Up and down. “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 10 View this email in your browser Be Sure! Day 10 This week we are celebrating the fact that we can have the assurance of being forgiven. The basis of such assurance is our faith in Christ – our reliance upon Him – our absolute confidence in … [Read more…]
Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 3 View this email in your browser Be Sure! Day 3 Assurance rests on the finished work of Jesus. When Jesus died on the cross, He bore our sins, and cried out, “It is finished!” (John 19:30) By this, He meant that the full payment for all … [Read more…]
40 Days of Assurance – Day 2 View this email in your browser Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 2 He marveled, “You mean you can know that you are going to heaven?” We can afford to be wrong about lots of things, but not about going to heaven. We can know with … [Read more…]
40 Days of Assurance View this email in your browser Be Sure! 40 Days of Assurance – Day 1 Don’t trust your feelings. Trust God! Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever does not have the Son does not have life … I write these things to you who believe in the name of the … [Read more…]