Matthew
Many churches are very good at hear-the-word discipleship, which they consider to be very important, but they neglect the kind of do-the-word discipleship that God intends to flow from hearing the word.
In Part 2 of the series of Forgiving and Reconciling, Pastor Foley calls on believers to abandon their efforts at human forgiveness altogether.
Did Jesus become a ransom so that we don't have to?
The Scriptures don’t show a single time when Jesus is inviting someone to go to the synagogue (the Jewish “church meeting” of his day) with him. But the Scriptures do show that the most common invitation Jesus offers to people is to share bread with him. God loves to fellowship with his creation around the dinner table!
An acceptable fast is something altogether different than mere personal abstinence. It's about public engagement with those you normally don't engage with.
We are so individualistic these days that we are reluctant to use the method Jesus used to train people how to pray, namely, imitation.
