Getting to Know Jesus: The Power of Restraint
Stephanie Solberg
esus could have silenced His enemies with power but chose restraint. Discover how His self-control reveals God’s love and guides our obedience today.
esus could have silenced His enemies with power but chose restraint. Discover how His self-control reveals God’s love and guides our obedience today.
Jesus’ teachings were not always easy to hear. He called His followers to love enemies, deny themselves, and take sin seriously. Many disciples turned away, yet His words remain spirit and life. In this post, we explore the hard sayings of Jesus and what they mean for us today.
The Pharisees created extra rules to look righteous on the outside, but Jesus taught that true righteousness begins on the inside. In this post, we’ll see why image can deceive, how God looks at the heart, and what it means to live with inward devotion instead of outward appearance.
Jesus is described in Scripture as both the Light and the Stumbling Block. How can He be both? In this post, we’ll examine the prophecy of Isaiah, the teachings of Peter, and why Jesus still shines as the Light for some while remaining a stumbling block for others.
Scripture Reading Matthew 5:17–18 Exodus 20:1–17 Jeremiah 31:31–33 Luke 22:20 We have been transported back in time to 1st-century Palestine. We’ve found Jesus by following the crowds who are inexplicably drawn to Him. We’ve seen Him show compassion to the masses and drive out demons from the demon-possessed. We’ve heard some of His teachings, and we’ve observed some of His miracles.
True peace comes from surrender. Learn how a heart of surrender helps you trust God’s will and live for His kingdom with freedom and purpose.
To understand the prophetic passages of the Bible and have a clearer picture of Israel’s future and our future, we must have a good understanding of God’s covenant promises with the people of Israel.
God sovereignly set apart Israel as a nation to enter into covenant with so that all the families of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:1). God gave Israel the Word of God to guard, protect, and deliver to the world, not only through the Prophets but through the promised
Whatever that is, is what we should desire. But how often do we crave, desire, plea for or dare I say try and demand what we want? There is no finger pointing here. This is a personal conviction. To share a level of transparency, I’ve had the following emotions/reactions when
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