GuineaField

Jonathan Edwards pastored for just eight months in NYC and yet it was here that he penned many of his resolutions. Even as a young man of 18 and 19, he was passionate about a higher purpose for his life. He desired to live for God and to bring more attention to God’s greatness. The types of resolutions we set to change our lives communicate much about what we aspire too and who we are. What resolutions have you set this year? Have you made any that would be for God’s glory? Let me encourage you in at least one way. Resolve to abide in Christ. That is the very beginning of all other types of growing for God’s glory. This year, please include in your purposes for life change the principle of abiding in Christ. Spend time with him each day, allowing Him to change you more like Him each day. Our church is going through a study on how to develop this daily devotional time with God.  If you have not attended a class that helps you develop this area of your life, please join us!

Many high profile men have come to reap the consequences of sinful practices. This illustrates a principle that is true for Christians as well. Usually, when we touch the fire of sin, God allows us to feel the pain so that we will not continue to touch the fire. In this video, we learn the fourth answer to the question, "Why do bad things happen?" - "We reap what we sow."

Answering this question is always difficult. But that does not mean that there are no answers. The Christian worldview gives many good answers to this question. And although none of them take the pain of loss, or sorrow away immediately, as we take in each of these answers, we begin to recover from our difficulties. A third answer to the question of bad is that God uses the bad to make us better. If we did not face the difficult we would not grow stronger. So, at times our loving heavenly Father even asks us to go through the trial to strengthen our faith, our resolves, our character. He makes each of His children stronger through the trial. Consider this very practical answer to the question: "Why do bad things happen to me?" Answer 1 - Bad people do bad things. Answer 2 - We live in a broken world. Answer 3 - God uses bad to things to make us better.