Often, we hear people say, “if God is such a loving God, why does He allow bad things to happen?” The answer: He loves us so much that He gave us freewill and He won’t intervene unless we include Him in our affairs.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Tasha Cobb wrote song “Break Every Chain.” The song says, “He promised the power to break every chain.” We live in a day and an age where there is no holy reverence or respect for the power of God to break the chains that cripple and overcome anything that bind us. With no holy reverence or respect for the power of God, that there
Scripture: Mark 9: 2-5 We are five months into the year 2023. We have experienced four months of His grace, His love, His forgiveness, His healing, His comfort, His mercy, His peace that “passeth all understanding,” His blessings “seen and unseen,” acknowledged and ignored; blessings we know about and blessings we never saw coming, nor going. Blessings of trouble that did not come our way! Blessings of pain and hurt that did not come our way! It could have been me: killed by the rock dropped on an unsuspecting woman’s car windshield! It could have been us caught in a
Praise God in the pain until problems are solved. Have full faith in God.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:13, “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” One of the greatest challenges in the Black community is managing debt. The Black community has one of the lowest credit scores in the country. The way to avoid the temptation of credit card debt, pay day loans, and borrowing money from family and friends is to develop
Christian fashion model Stikks is out to help Christian women have a successful career in modeling. One may not pair the world of modeling with being a Christian, but Angela “Stikks” Adams says different. “Some people think it’s crazy to call yourself a Christian model, some people think it’s an oxymoron,” said Stikks. The middle child in the family, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native grew up in a Christian household. In the beginning, Stikks’ trajectory looked more like she was destined for the WNBA with her stating, “I’m a baller.” “Grew up, whooping on my brothers in basketball,” said Stikks. “I
Through the death of a child, a challenging bout with cancer, and the loss of her husband of 69 years to COVID-19, Dr. Betty Price has always turned to the same place for solace and strength: the Word of God.
Thank God for freewill and that we are not robots, but let us use our freewill responsibly with love and goodwill according to what would be pleasing in God’s sight.
To overcome the paralysis of your present, you must decide to get up from the place of your paralysis, get out of the place of your paralysis, and decide to get to the place of your freedom, blessing, healing and deliverance.
The Lord blesses the people of the Lord and then and only then does He ask the people to acknowledge the source of the blessings.
Our Lord hears! He is working on your petition. He is arranging things to get to you in answer of your prayers.
Pastor David Cross debuts his new sermon series, “Family Jeopardy,” on Sunday, July 10, at the 10 a.m. worship of The Liberty Church, located at 14725 S. Gramercy Place in Gardena.
Scripture: II Timothy 1:5 (NLT) Here, the Apostle Paul is sending a gentle, yet encouraging word and reminder to his “son in the faith,” Timothy, to remember his faith. It’s a personal letter from one who generally wrote epistles and it gives us a unique and private perspective of the feelings and insecurities that both men happened to share. They were close in their relationship – close in comradeship, close in ministry, close in their feelings about Christ! They were close! They had cried together when they parted – these two men were close. Paul had circumcised Timothy so he
We all wear clothes to cover our bodies as we move about in public. But in being fully clothed, we are still naked without the Lord’s wisdom and guidance.
God so loved us that He gave us free will. He created us in His image that He may have a relationship with us. It would not be much of a relationship if He created us to be robotic. He wants to know that our relationship with Him is voluntarily out of love and faith.