Jesus Cures Delusion
Malachi 2:17-3:6 is all about a faithful Father (God) graciously dealing with His foolish children (His covenant people)....
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....
March 13, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Malachi, Jesus, Sin, patience, seriousness, sanctification
Malachi 2:17-3:6 is all about a faithful Father (God) graciously dealing with His foolish children (His covenant people)....
Keep ReadingMarch 12, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Grace, God, King, precious blood
God's Grace in Christ regenerates us and gives us new life. We desire Christ and He keeps His Word. All who come to Him will never be cast out. Here is a poem that explains in prose the process of acknowledging sin and turning to Jesus....
Keep ReadingMarch 11, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: confession, Gospel, Jesus, Transformation
The very bright and powerful hope of the gospel is that lasting life change is really possible. The finished work of Christ at the Cross means that restarts can and actually do happen by the miraculous working of God. ...
Keep ReadingMarch 8, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Jesus, Christians, born again
Do you think 'born again' Christians come across as obnoxious, self righteous, hypocritical and weirdly fanatical about non-essential things? I do too. I am one and am guilty of all those things and more. ...
Keep ReadingMarch 7, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: truth, Gospel, Transformation, desire, Jesus, Lord
What do born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ really really want?...
Keep ReadingFebruary 21, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Worry, tomorrow, Jesus
Tomorrow is a worrier so you don't have to be. ...
Keep ReadingFebruary 13, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Life, Death, abortion, internal life, Jesus, Gospel
God is the giver of life. We must stand for life....
Keep ReadingFebruary 13, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Service, Ministry, Gospel
One of the things that the gospel does in transforming our lives is give us the best possible reason to give our lives in service to God and others....
Keep ReadingJanuary 8, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Praise, complaining, contentment, Jesus
How is it that praise to God for His saving acts on our behalf can so quickly turn to complaining against Him because we do not get what we want? How quickly God's people forget. How quickly the idol factory gets back to business. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 8, 2014 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Jesus, Life, Dead, eternal life, gift, dying
How is a Christian to view death? It helps to start with how a Christian is to view life....
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