Delighting in God's Beauty
True believers delight first in God Himself. ...
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....
July 23, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Glory, delight, divine beauty
True believers delight first in God Himself. ...
Keep ReadingJuly 19, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: sanctification, Holiness
DeYoung calls holiness the new camping. I call it the new flossing. What everybody knows they need to do, but don't really want to do, and only does when they have to....
Keep ReadingJuly 16, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Holiness, sanctification
C.S. Lewis, in one of his letters wrote, “How little people know who think holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing…it is irresistible.†Jonathon Edwards commented, “Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing. We drink in strange notions of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour and unpleasant thing; but ther...
Keep ReadingJuly 8, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Holiness, Jesus' character, Transformation
I can't help but think that within the Christian community we often think of holiness in the wrong ways. We think of it as a human ideal to measure up to rather than what it really is, a divine character to imitate and align with. It hasn't helped that through the years holiness has meant many things to many people, and it usually has to do with the standard of behavior th...
Keep ReadingJuly 5, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: blessing, Ministry, gospel living
Doesn't it always seem like we are scheming to get our needs met? We are angling, we are conniving, we are trying to work the angles so that we get what we want....
Keep ReadingJuly 3, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Tags: preaching, Relationships, People, desire
It takes timing, desire, and gospel truth to preach Jesus to people that you meet....
Keep ReadingJune 26, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Jesus, reality, significance
It's so easy to get wrapped up in things that really don't matter all that much. ...
Keep ReadingJune 25, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Trials, heavy heart, Jesus Christ
Everyone suffers. ...
Keep ReadingJune 14, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Election, salvation, regeneration, foreknowledge, monergism, predestination, free will, Jesus
At the end of the day, when all is said and done, and we are taking our rest, what will make any difference, what will be the significance, what will matter most? Not what I have said and done, not what I have determined, not what I have called significant, not what I deemed as matter-some. Because I am a child of the King of the Universe....
Keep ReadingJune 14, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Answers, Jesus, helping, common grace
As a pastor I often have the privilege of meeting with people are dealing with questions that are not easily answered. They need to process their thoughts, and I am given the privilege to engage those thoughts. I do so because I care. My God-given calling, my vocation, my reason to care, is simply stated, for Jesus and the Gospel and the good of all people. I do not perfec...
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