Dealing with the Searing Pain of Loss
What should we remember when we're going through pain or helping others going through it?...
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....
June 2, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Pain, loss, alone
What should we remember when we're going through pain or helping others going through it?...
Keep ReadingMay 15, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Evangelism,
How you can you be a good evangelist, leveraging the scattering we already do (geographically) and the scattering God allows through persecution? ...
Keep ReadingApril 9, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Reformation, revival, preaching
Reformation and Revival is marked by true preaching....
Keep ReadingMarch 29, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Killing, terrorism, Terrorists, Gospel response
The killing of Christians exposes our sin and need of Gospel repentance and redemptive reengagement with lost and hurting humanity. Jesus said do not fear those who kill your body but cannot touch your soul. Fear Him who has the power over both body and soul (Matt. 10:28). God is Sovereign and Almighty, Terrorists are not....
Keep ReadingMarch 16, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Repentance, Christian life
What is the nature of repentance?...
Keep ReadingMarch 4, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: listening to God, God speaking to us, Hearing from God
A lot of people talk about hearing from God. What does it mean to hear from God? Follow these four steps if you want to hear from God....
Keep ReadingFebruary 19, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Remembering, Bible reading, Bible Study, God's Word
Blue cords aside, what helps you remember to obey God's instructions? Check out these 4 primary built-in reminders. ...
Keep ReadingFebruary 4, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Bible reading, God's faithfulness
It's the beginning of February and right about now there are plenty of people feeling guilty about already abandoning their resolve to read the Bible every day this year. They stumbled and they fallen and can't get up. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 21, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Jesus, Cradle, Cross, Crown
A poem about Jesus. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 15, 2016 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: preaching, Scripture, God's Word
Preaching is almost an alien activity. We get up, frail humans holding the perfect Word of God, trusting God to do something that we could never do. ...
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