Speaking, Serving, Praising
As we use our God-given gifts to serve the body of Christ, it is to be for the praise and glory of God....
Keep ReadingFebruary 24, 2024 by Mike Sciarra
Love the Lord not the world....
November 18, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Dear Christian, we seem too often to wrongly think that everything and everyone must align to please us, or all is loss and everything is a failure. This is painful idolatry and must be replaced with sincere worship....
September 2, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
When Jesus changes your heart, your motives and affections and desires change....
August 21, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Rejoicing in Regeneration and Hope ...
August 18, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
People wonder all the time if they are really a believer. Sometimes other people see a person who says they are Christian and wonder if that is a true profession of faith. This can be for any number of reasons. But there is one specific way found in 2 Timothy 2:19 where are you can know if a person is truly a Christian....
August 17, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Let’s pattern our baptisms and church membership as closely to the scriptural pattern as we can. Let's link baptism and church membership more closely. Let's see them as part of a unified process to glorify God, build up believers, and reach the world....
July 28, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
As we live a Christ-honoring life… Pure gospel living looks different than posing for pictures It stands in stark contrast to life lived under lights A sovereign God changes our motives The authoritative Word renews our minds ...
May 20, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
As I am alive, raised, and seated with Christ by God’s grace… 5 ongoing outcomes I observe about God’s grace towards me....
February 23, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Has life put a lot of mileage on you? Are you weighed down by the toll it has taken? Are you weary? Are you troubled? Do you feel hopeless? There is hope of forgiveness in Jesus....
January 17, 2015 | 1 Comments by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Serving, speaking, glory of God
As we use our God-given gifts to serve the body of Christ, it is to be for the praise and glory of God....
Keep ReadingJanuary 16, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Stewards, God's grace, serve one another, Serving, stewardship, Grace,
1 Peter 4:10 is focused on Christians serving one another in the body of Christ....
Keep ReadingJanuary 15, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Mission, Missions, Gospel, Jesus, Calling
God's people share God's mission. We may not always feel, look, or act like it, but when God reconciled us to Himself through Christ we became ambassadors for Christ in a very needy world (2 Cor. 5:17-21)....
Keep ReadingJanuary 15, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Hospitality, Strangers, entertaining, grumbling
Hospitality is more than inviting people over and entertaining lots of people in your home. It's more than being ready, willing, and able to make a meal for someone at a moment's notice. Those things are very helpful and often a great blessing. but the heart of hospitality goes much deeper....
Keep ReadingJanuary 14, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Fervent love, zealous love, stretching beyond comfort zone
The love of God shown by His people to one another provides a protective covering from sin's damaging effects....
Keep ReadingJanuary 13, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: End of time, sober, sound judgment, Prayer, prayers
Why would God give us a stock answer and what does 1 Peter 4:7 have to do with our daily life?...
Keep ReadingJanuary 10, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Terror, Fear, Suffering, Victory
Don't be swayed by the evil of man. God's greatness is always on display. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 2, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Sin, loss, Jesus
Sin is not worth the loss of all things. Only Jesus is....
Keep ReadingDecember 25, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Savior, manger, blood, Sin, Heaven, Hell
A Christmas poem of epic proportions. ...
Keep ReadingDecember 20, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Christmas, Post-Christmas Letdown
Why do we experience the letdown? How can we keep from experiencing the letdown? What does God want us to know that were missing? That is what we need to think about today....
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