Jun 24, 2014
Choose… to be Fruitful! by Steven James As my final installment as this year’s Conference President, and keeping on track in sharing some thoughts about each passage in our Scripture Memory program for 2013-2014, we have one last passage—the “big” one—to tackle. It’s John 15:1-17. Perhaps it’s “big” not just because it is the traditional “long”...
Making Choice Choices by Steven James As we round the final turn and head for the finish line of Conference week in St. Paul, let’s explore some final choices that we can make by using our Scripture Memory verses. The Most Important Choice and Its Voice – Joshua 24:14-15; Joshua 24:22 The first “choice” choice we must make is to choose the Lord,...
Giving a Voice to Your Choice! by Steven James In Joshua 24:22, we find that after you and I make the choice to serve the Lord, we need to give our choice a voice, just as God’s people did. Let’s explore the whole context of this memory verse, from v. 14 through v. 28, and see what kind of a voice we can give to our choice. A Voice of...
Mar 21, 2014
It’s Your Choice! by Rev. Steven James As we round the bend towards Conference at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota from July 27-August 2, I thought I would share with you several articles based on the memory verses for this Conference year. (How are you and your church family doing on these?) We know from our main passage in Joshua 24:14-15 that Joshua...
Choose… not to Cruise! by Rev. Steven James I thought it would be good to take a look at how we’re living out our faith. Are you choosing to cruise along or are you giving it everything you’ve got? Running is used repeatedly as a picture of our Christian life in God’s Word. Three key passages, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Philippians 3:12-14 and Hebrews...
Choose… to Fuse! by Rev. Steven James One of the most blessed dynamics of church life is to connect together. The apostle Paul, the man whom God used to write or impact most of the New Testament, admitted the need to be connected with others. In Romans 1, he shares his heart with the believers in a very transparent way in declaring how he felt about them...