Repentance is Heart Work
Repentance is ongoing heart work. It is a way of life enabled by the Holy Spirit. ...
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 12, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Repentance, Heart, Jesus
Repentance is ongoing heart work. It is a way of life enabled by the Holy Spirit. ...
Keep ReadingJuly 6, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: repent, Repentance, Jesus, preaching
All people should turn from their sins and trust in Jesus Christ. ...
Keep ReadingJune 25, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Repentance, repent, Gospel, Church
The gospel of the grace of God in Christ is drenched in mercifully provided repentance that not only restores vitality of faith but health in Christ's body the Church. It is something for which we must pray and rejoice when it comes. It is needed like air, on a moment by moment basis. For the flourishing of Christ's Bride and for the nations to be made glad in God (Acts 5:...
Keep ReadingJune 13, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Well done, excellent, commendation
God's people need to be commended more often! This is one of those times. ...
Keep ReadingJune 12, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Iron, Discipleship, mentoring
God uses Christians to grow Christians. ...
Keep ReadingJune 6, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog
Sometimes it is easy to be so fixated on the task at hand that we miss the bigger picture. Myopic, we microscope on minute details and miss the boat, train, plane, automobile; whatever it was on the horizon that we were supposed to keep one eye on. A deadline, a curfew, a due date, a marker point where we were supposed to be ready. We get diverted, rerouted, or derailed. W...
Keep ReadingMay 31, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Sovereignty, sovereign, Jesus, Esther, Haman, Mordecai
Every Christian needs to know with assurance that God is in control. ...
Keep ReadingMay 21, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Pain, scars, wounded, Glory, perspective, Gospel
Pain is a part of every life and God gives believers an amazing story to tell. . ...
Keep ReadingMay 16, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Gospel, serving Jesus, work, science
Every Christian has gospel work to do. And every Christian is called to do that work in the Church and the world....
Keep ReadingMay 10, 2013 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Conviction, courage, Christ, heart ache over sin,
My heart aches once again, this time over hearing how one Bible-believing Christian's voice, that of ESPN's Chris Broussard, cannot be tolerated to speak God-honoring truth respectfully amid a sea of total celebration of a so-called Christian blatantly living in unrepentant sin. The response to Broussard is nothing short of hateful intolerance. Up against Jesus' words in ...
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