Balancing Ministry N' Work

Paul understood what it meant to live life to its fullest. He focused on the people around him, valuing them, taking joy in them, and by being a witness at every opportunity. If we are going to make the most of our time on earth, we need to be doing the same. Pouring ourselves into our family and friends and being a witness to the world. Living life to the fullest also means we need to be submitting to the Holy Spirit. Letting Him dwell in us, guide us, mold us, shape us, and help us to life a life worthy of the calling placed on us. Things like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control become evident as we submit to the Holy Spirit. Live your life to the fullest, loving those around you, living worthy of your calling, and letting the Holy Spirit guide you every step of the way. As we move to this week’s verses, we need to remember two things. First, we are to be filled with and depend on the Holy spirit and second that as believ...

This is the tenth message in our walk-through Ephesians and Paul has had a lot to say so far. He spent the first half of the letter talking to us about who God is and what He did. Emphasizing things like forgiveness, cleansing of sins, redemption, unity in all believers, and that He believes that we are so important that He has marked us as His own. While we cannot earn our way into heaven, as followers of Christ we have been called to live our lives worthy of the calling that God has placed on us. Living with humility, love, gentleness, patience, and unity. We are to turn away from our old sinful ways and live the life that we were truly created to live. If our thoughts and actions are based on what Jesus has done for us, it should show. People should see His love as we are kind, compassionate, and forgiving. As we saw last week that we need to imitate God as a child imitates their older siblings, parents, grandparents, and teachers. If Jesus loves, we need to love. If He gave ...

Last week we ended with: Ephesians 4:32 “And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.” A great encouragement on how we should strive to live as we Follow Jesus. Keeping Christ rooted in our hearts as we turn from our old ways. A life long journey where we learn what Jesus has in store for us and others can see God at work in us. As we continue to learn to Love God and Love Others, our choices change from earthly things to Godly things. As usual we will pick up where we left off. Ephesians 5:1-2 “ 5  Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, 2  and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.” Children have a tendency to watch people around them to learn how they are supposed to act. You can sometimes see those learned behaviors and recognize which parent they get that from. Comes up in our house now and again about w...