Christ is praying for all his people, and his prayers never fail.

Romans 5:9-11 Right Response Staff
Christ is praying for all his people, and his prayers never fail.
The Church has never had a monopoly on self-righteousness. A person can be religious and self-righteous, and a person can be completely pagan and self-righteous. In today’s culture, we have far more of the latter.
Pagan meditation seeks to suppress the analytical side of the mind and focus on the feelings and of the heart, while Christian meditation is so rational, it can actually cause us to regularly contend with our hearts. Christians don’t follow (or listen) to their hearts, we preach to our hearts.
Michael Belch preaches from Lamentations 2 on Sunday, June 9, 2024.
For the last few decades, American Evangelicalism has been obsessed with all that is BIG, FAST, FLASHY, and FAMOUS. In contrast, 2 Timothy 2:2 says, “What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” So Paul entrusted certain things to Timothy; Timothy was charged to …
Like Jacob the Patriarch, real men wrestle with God. They don’t pick fights with someone half their size.