Musings on Spiritual Gifts
Discovery of your God-given gifting (1 Peter 4:10, gift, Greek charisma = spiritual gift) comes from doing the good things that you want to do because you love Jesus and want to serve Him. That's from 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....
February 11, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Spiritual gifts, charisma,
Discovery of your God-given gifting (1 Peter 4:10, gift, Greek charisma = spiritual gift) comes from doing the good things that you want to do because you love Jesus and want to serve Him. That's from God....
Keep ReadingFebruary 7, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Hospitality
If you want to get a handle on what it is that God wants of you, if you want to please God, if you want to follow after Jesus with reckless abandon, then as one chosen by God and trusting in the power of God who has caused you to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has given you a love for His inerrant and infallible Word, you will ...
Keep ReadingFebruary 4, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Hospitality
Biblical hospitality is so much more than we think it is....
Keep ReadingFebruary 2, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: love, agape, costly love, agape love
1 Peter 4:8 calls for costly love. It takes courage and a fixation on the Cross of Christ. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 28, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: love, agape, earnest love, stretching love, costly love
This agape is not sentimental fluff, but a substance found only in the truly converted, which springs forth in humble outbursts of gospel-infused sacrificial service for, to, and through, Jesus....
Keep ReadingJanuary 27, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Christ's return, Second coming, Jesus
A Goapel-infused poem/hymn/song that expresses a longing for Jesus to return....
Keep ReadingJanuary 22, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Suffering, Sin, meddling
Don't be the kind of person who is known for their sin....
Keep ReadingJanuary 21, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Insults, blessing, Glory, name of Christ
Most people do not think of an insult as a blessing. But God does. God says that when you are insulted for the name of Christ you are blessed because God's Spirit rests on you....
Keep ReadingJanuary 20, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Suffering, rejoicing, Christ's sufferings
We hate to suffer, but God loves to cause us to rejoice in suffering....
Keep ReadingJanuary 18, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Fiery ordeal, Trials, testing
There was and is a fiery trial for believers in the Lord Jesus. It is to test our faith. ...
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