Character That Changes The World: Don’t Quit
Many people are good starters. Perseverance is the quality that ensures you finish well.
Peter sees it as essential for those running this Christian race.
Many people are good starters. Perseverance is the quality that ensures you finish well.
Peter sees it as essential for those running this Christian race.
Self-control is one of the most underrated virtues. We can excuse ourselves too easily when we give into the temptations that surround us so often.
How do we grow in self-control?
Some details of things that are happening over the next few weeks at Salford Elim Church, as well as some important dates for later in 2023…
Today knowledge can feel just 2 clicks away on Google. But is that knowledge, information, what Peter meant? Sometimes it can feel like it is, and those who have this knowledge can feel superior to everyone else.
That’s dangerous.
But what if Peter meant there was a different way of growing in knowledge? What if it was about a growing relationship – both with God and others. What does it take to get that sort of knowledge?
Goodness can sound soft and prissy. No one wants to be called a goody-two shoes.
Unless you have faced the opposite and been the victim of evil.
Goodness is the authentic integrity that is creative and trustworthy.
It may not be glamorous but it makes all the difference in the world.
I believe lots of things that make no real difference to my day to day life.
New Testament faith is different. It was never a static acceptance but trust in a person who transformed everything.
Faith was dynamic.
And it was the bedrock for everything else that would be possible…
Will you help us deploy an Emergency Field Hospital into the earthquake region, including two operating rooms and 75 staff, to address the immediate medical needs of survivors?
Why did Paul send Onesimus back? Was he encouraging slavery?
How do we read the New Testament on these issues when we hold to different views of what is right?
Here are details of some of the things that are happening over the next few weeks, as well as some important dates for later in 2023…
Let’s not fool ourselves: forgiveness always costs something. Always did, always will.
Relationships will occasionally rupture. Forgiveness is the way they can be repaired.
How do we do this?