Glory of Christ Fellowship

  Listless words linger in my mind. Half-thoughts swirling around innermost parts. Sentences start, quickly fade, their endings unknown. Imaged impressions float through hazed vastness, just out of reach. Stretching out, trying to grasp anything, only to pull my hand back, empty. Trying to shake them off, deliberate discouragements, carefully chosen, trigger my flesh. Familiar emotions surface, the sound of their voice a reminder, they are still with me. Failure memories, horrible happenings, the movie flickers while the soundtrack plays in my soul. I fight, struggling against an enemy who knows the ugly details of my weakest weaknesses and my darkest darkness. All strength is taken up in this recurring battle. Fog begins to roll in, thinking becomes incoherent. Life presses on  blurring the line between intentional living and auto-pilot. Struggling to not fall asleep at the wheel, I am wooed into a slumber, my past takes over. Loudly reminded,...

Over the last few weeks I have been writing about a document I keep on the desktop of my computer entitled, “My Motivation.” It is designed to remind and inspire and focus me toward Christ-centered living, but it’s comprised of pictures rather than words. Nine of the fifteen pictures are of various men of God who inspire me for a number of reasons and play important roles in my life. One man who has played a major role in my life but who doesn’t appear on my “Wall of Faith” is Doug Goodno. Why? Simply because I don’t have an electronic picture of him! But if I did, his would be the most prominent of them all. Doug was not the one who led me to Christ, or who first discipled me in Christ, but the Lord brought him into my life at a crucial time and, in many ways, he became a kind of father to me. I don’t think I could write a book about him, but I could certainly write a chapter of a book about him, and perhaps someday I will. But for the purposes of this devotional, let me just summar...

THIS POST was written by Corey Larson, one of the youth at Glory of Christ Fellowship.  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is a log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.-Mat 7:3-5 First off, I am writing this book because of the wonderful analogy the Lord has given me. It came to me when I was thinking of multiple popular verses and phrases (one being the log and the speck) and combining them together. They fit so perfectly I was shocked. I knew right then and there that it was from the Lord, and I wanted to share it with others. The verses above imply that the purpose of taking the log out of your own eye is to help your brother, which by all means is true, but is there another meaning that we ...

 "Then Asa called to the LORD his God and said, "LORD, there is no one besides You to help   in the battle   between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O LORD our God, for we trust in You, and in Your n ame have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.""   12   "So the LORD routed the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled." (2 Chronicles 14:11-12)   Our Lord has many promises for His people. Those who confess Christ and walk in obedience to Him should have no fear, but have a simple faith in Almighty God to help and save and rescue in His time...making us strong and persevering along the way!   Our faith will grow as we go through trials, not around them, and it is God who will get the praise as we trust in Him and watch Him work.    

 "When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of the LORD." (2 Chronicles 12:1) How careful we should be when we are in times of "supposed" strength. What do we say to ourselves when we are feeling strong, with no "apparent" troubles, no particular strong sin we are fighting? Do we then neglect God?! May we never forget that our lives are in God's hands, and while "conscious" of no trouble, pride causes many to forsake God. Solomon's words to us: 8 "Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion," 9 "That I not be full and deny You and say, "Who is the LORD?" Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane the name of my God." (Proverbs 30:3-9)

Over the last few weeks I have been writing about a document I keep on the desktop of my computer entitled, “My Motivation.” It is designed to remind and inspire and focus me toward Christ-centered living, but it’s comprised of pictures rather than words. Nine of the fifteen pictures are of various men of God who inspire me for a number of reasons, the ninth of whom is Charles Spurgeon. Spurgeon came to know Jesus at the age of 16, and only four years later was called to be the preaching Pastor of New Park Street Chapel in London, England, later called The Metropolitan Tabernacle. Spurgeon would serve the Lord there for some thirty-nine years, during which time he preached to around 100,000 people! Of all the preachers who might appear on my personal wall of faith, I chose Spurgeon for several reasons. First, his preaching was deeply rooted in and saturated with the Bible. He was committed to the Word of God without apology in an age where modernism was sweeping the culture, and the c...

This song has been ministering so deeply to my heart, I just had to share it with you all. If you want to know more about how this powerful little song affected the life of Hudson Taylor, you can read a one page summary here .