In what spirit do you receive confessions from your Christian siblings? Do you ever judge them more or less harshly due to a different type of sin from what you've known personally? The playing field was leveled at the cross.
Based on Joshua 24:14-18 and taken from his book Gods at War, Kyle Idleman talks about how our dreams might not be realized the way we thought or mean what we thought they would if they are realized. The result depends on whether we're worshipping the dream or the Given of the dream.
Leaving a Christian heritage for your family and church family isn't a distant future reality but a daily practice that begins the moment you decide that's your intent.
The message of the power of the Cross was preached by Paul to a congregation very much embroiled in the practical meaning and effects of power. Power and its irresistible influence were thick in the air at Corinth. Powerplays, if you will, were being instigated in Corinth by divisive parties simultaneously following Paul, Peter, Apollos and one who sought to trump them all, the "Christ party."