7 Ways Pain Drives Us to God (and how to get out of the depths of despair)
7 Ways Pain Drives us to God? (And how you can get out of the depths of despair)...
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....
April 28, 2022 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Pain, eternal glory, gospel hope, Joy, despair
7 Ways Pain Drives us to God? (And how you can get out of the depths of despair)...
Keep ReadingApril 20, 2022 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog
The Bible clearly teaches God's providential control… ...
Keep ReadingApril 20, 2022 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog
Christ protects His flock through the local church and if God's people stand firm they will be opposed by those who'd rather not bow to Christ (Acts 20:26-35. 2 Tim. 1-4)....
Keep ReadingApril 20, 2022 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog
In a moment like Covid and it’s aftermath, churches and Christians will be tempted to try anything and everything to recapture momentum and reignite the hearts of people. ...
Keep ReadingNovember 1, 2021 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Local church, life in Christ’s body, continuing on, don’t give up
There are so many things in life that you just have to get up and do it even when it’s tough, because the rewards are worth it. ...
Keep ReadingOctober 20, 2021 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: love, Ways to love, choosing to love, bo, body of Christ
3O WAYS FOR CHRISTIANS TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER....
Keep ReadingOctober 9, 2021 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: pleasing God, masks, vaccines, COVID-19, what should a Christian do right now
God’s beloved become beloved to one another. We love our family in Christ. Yet this present moment we have been living and struggling through has tested the bonds of that love, almost to the breaking point. ...
Keep ReadingJuly 21, 2021 by Mike Sciarra | Tags: God’s Word daily, Summer Book Club
Read Jude every day, all summer long? I remember when I first had the thought, I thought that maybe people wouldn’t want to do it. Perish that thought! I am calling people to read the inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative, powerful, conscience-binding Word of God! ...
Keep ReadingJuly 14, 2021 by Mike Sciarra | Tags: Depravity, Signs of the times, gospel hope
Human depravity has a way of going from bad to worse. But the Christian’s hope is in the gospel....
Keep ReadingMay 25, 2021 by Mike Sciarra | Tags: The Holy Spirit, Doctrine, understanding God
The Holy Spirit is God with you and in you, empowering you to serve Christ....
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