February 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....
August 15, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: God is faithful, kindness, faithfulness
Faithfulness and kindness are in short supply and there's nothing like a road trip across our beautiful land to remind you of that truth. Truckers rarely yield and out of state motorists, including me, aren't much better....
Keep ReadingJuly 23, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: money, Time, clock, dollar, stewardship
Besides people, what were the greatest causes of stress in your life today? If you are anything like me I'd venture to guess that have to do with the clock and the dollar....
Keep ReadingJuly 9, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Growing in Christ, sanctification
Growth in Christ takes God's power and our participation. ...
Keep ReadingJune 24, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: preaching, proclaiming, announcing good news, heralding, preach the Word
Often times, believers get really nervous when they hear that they are to preach the Gospel. It should be encouraging to know that there are two kinds of preaching in the book of Acts that believers today ought to engage in as well. Two kinds of preaching means twice as much God-ordained fun....
Keep ReadingJune 11, 2015 | 1 Comments by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: sanctification, Christian growth, Growing in Christ
God wants and expects us to grow. It is purposeful. Obviously there is so much we can say about how God enables us to grow. God wants us to, He desires for us to grow. He also expects it to happen. When God is at work in your life it's going to happen. 1 Peter 2:2 says to long for the pure milk of the Word so that by it we may grow with respect to salvation. Ephesians 4 s...
Keep ReadingJune 4, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: sanctification
There is one doctrine we cannot afford to get wrong. ...
Keep ReadingMay 17, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: bible, morality, truth, cultural divide, moral slide
Thoughts on the Current Cultural Divide and the Ongoing Moral Slide...
Keep ReadingMay 14, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: preaching, Teaching
Preaching and teaching the Word of God is not about trying to get Christians to......
Keep ReadingMay 13, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: OGK, Only God Knows, Faith
No one except God knows what's next....
Keep ReadingMay 12, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Memorizing the Bible, 1 Peter
Just in case you have been wondering… "Whatever happened to memorizing 1 Peter?", let's just say it hasn't been easy....
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