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new life in Christ

  We continue our journey through Romans on Sundays at The Community Fellowship, and this past weekend we looked at Romans 6 and the movement for the Christian from being a slave to sin to obeying and following God.  It is an awesome thing to understand. Here are some of the verses that I used to highlight what Jesus has done for us! Matthew 7:13-14  NLT   You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it. It is not exclusive because this way is offered to any one.  Yet as it says few find it.  This is why we share and pray. 2 Corinthians 5:14  NLT   Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. It is the love of Christ that changes every thing.  It is the love ...

stay connected

Stay connected.   Have you noticed that there are some places you go where your cell phone has no service?   There are lots of places around the globe where you cannot connect to the internet or a cell phone tower or one of numerous things that we like to connect to. This past week 8 men from our community, me being one of them, traveled to Spartanburg, South Carolina to help our friends at SonRise Baptist Church.   I even worked.   Our team helped build walls, mud and tape walls preparing them to be painted, worked on some bathrooms and did a few other things.   It was a great 2 day trip with lots accomplished. But one of the things that became evident not long after we arrived is that in the building, where we worked and stayed, there was almost no cellular service.   Even outside of the church cell service wasn’t very good. This turned out to be a good thing.   We all had to disconnect some.   That was good, and that was bad. ...