Discover The Book Ministries081130PM GEW-23 ANNA: LIVING A GRACE-ENERGIZED LIFE OF PRAISE Luke 2:36-40 As we open to Luke 2:36, and are introduced to the life of Anna, I’d ask you to underline two words in your mind. First, in v. 36 “she was of great age”—underline in your mind OLD. Second, in v. 37 “a widow of […]
The Complete Woman – A 21st Century Woman of Grace
GEW-22 070930AM Things completed, give such a great feeling: a completed assignment so our work is done; a completely balanced diet so we are healthy; all our requirements completed, so the pressures are off…all of those feel so good. The Joy of Completion The dictionary defines this word so well: com·plete adj., = […]
The Joy of Grace-Energized Submission
GEW-21 070916AM When God looks down upon us humans who live on Earth He only sees two kinds of hearts: saved hearts and lost hearts. God’s Word classifies everyone as either: having Christ or not. Listen to John: 1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the […]
What is Grace-Energized Submission?
GEW-20 070909AM Jesus reduced life to one simple goal—seeking God’s rule over each day of my life. Do you remember Christ’s simple yet powerful words? Please open there with me: Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. NKJV Ever since the Garden of Eden, and […]
The Eternal Reward of Grace-Energized Kindness
GEW-19 070902AM Can you imagine how liberating it would be to know how to choose the best in life? We live in a complex world of multiplied choices, many of which are good. We have more new information and more new opportunities offered to us each week—than the average 18th century person was offered in […]
What is the Grace-Energized Life?
GEW-18 070826AM This week I had lunch and someone stopped by our table and asked, “Could you define ‘grace-energized’ for me?” I did briefly there at that restaurant, but as I thought and prayed about it, I decided that it would be good to pause one week and back up to look at the […]
Grace-Energized Kindness
GEW-17 070819AM Do you serve the Lord with grace-energized kindness? Knowing that is vital because that is the only type of serving that God will reward according to His Word. Someday when our journey on earth ends, and we stand before Christ’s Throne—the Scriptures use only one word to describe what God eternally […]
Grace-Energized Homemakers
GEW-16 070812PM For the past 20 centuries God has offered to every married woman the privilege of turning each moment she spends in her hut, tent, cave, flat, apartment, or palace–into eternal crowns to cast at Christ’s feet. Since Paul sat to pen one word “homemakers” (NKJV) [“keepers at home” (KJV); “to be […]
Grace-Energized Women of Purity
GEW-15 070812AM For two thousand years God has been looking in each generation of Christ’s Church for a few good women–who will give themselves to His plan for their lives. That plan has been laid out for them in Titus two. When these women offer themselves as willing servants to follow God’s plan, […]
When Christ is Magnified and Believers Consecrated – God’s Word Prevails
GEW-14 070805AM What Does a Grace-Energized Church Look Like? A grace-energized church is where believers are empowered by God to magnify Christ, when God’s Word is prevailing in and through their lives, and they are willing to consecrate their lives and rid themselves of anything that hinders or displeases God. As you open in your […]
Women with Grace-Energized Minds
GEW-13 070729PM As we open to I Thessalonians 5, we open to Paul preparing new believers for spiritual warfare. As believers and followers of Christ, they were going to be attacked in their minds, by the Devil. That is where he starts. Your body only goes where you mind directs. Your mind is the […]
Grace-Energized Women are Discreet
GEW-12 070729AM Jesus loves absolutes. He always used them in His teachings, through contrasts: Light vs. Darkness, Heaven vs. Hell, Life vs. Death, Broad way vs. Narrow Gate, and so on. Those absolutes continue into the church that bears Christ’s Name. We have to choose go His way or ignore His way. The […]
Grace-Energized Living is the Titus Two Model for All Women
070722AM GEW-11 Titus Two Women-11 Children Loved by Grace-Energized Mothers .doc Grace-energized Living: The Titus Two Model Titus 2:4 We have gathered as Christ’s church this morning, but the church that met as Christ’s church nearly 2,000 years ago in New Testament times was a much simpler, informal gathering. There were no “church buildings”, […]
Children Loved By Grace-Energized Mothers
GEW-10 070701AM God is love, the greatest of all Christian virtues is love, and love energized by God lasts forever. What can be the most powerful aspect of a wife and mother’s life on earth as she obeys God’s calling for her life? God wants it to be her grace-energized love. What […]
Grace-Energized Mothers Deal with Bitterness
GEW-09 070624PM The decline and fall of the human race is set forth in Romans 1. Curiously, right in between all of those dreadful sins is one that seems to have always stood in the way of mothers loving their children to the max. Here it is in Romans 1:26-30. Romans 1:26-30 For this reason God gave […]
Bitterness Hinders Grace-Energized Wives & Mothers
GEW-08 070624AM God’s high calling for grace-energized women is to love their husbands and children. To most of us mature 21st century believers that may sound wonderful. To them it must have soundedimpossible. The Cretans of Paul’s day lived in an ego-centered, selfish society that knew and cared little about forgiveness. Roman society became so decadent that […]
Husbands Loved by Grace-Energized Wives
GEW-07 070617AM I’d like to go back with you to the beginning and together see God’s original intent and plan for men who would become husbands and fathers, as seen in Adam. As you turn to Genesis 2, we see God’s original plan for husbands and fathers. Because as we honor fathers today all across […]
Grace-Energized Mothers Love Their Children
GEW-06 070610PM Women energized by grace love their children. That is what Titus 2:4 says. We are going to see how to love children with love they can feel. But before we do that we need to ask why are we even here tonight? Why do we even sacrifice another hour-plus to gather in this building […]
Becoming A Grace-Energized Mother
GEW-05 070610AM Ministry in Christ’s church was never easy, even from the start. As we open Paul’s letter to Pastor Titus, missionary church-planter to Crete—we look at the description of the cultural background of the congregation Titus served two thousand years ago. Titus 1:12-13 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, […]
Grace-Energized Wives Love Their Husbands
GEW-04 070527AM We were saved by God’s grace; and we are kept by God’s grace; and we live in a way that pleases God and earns His rewards—energized by His grace. These past few weeks we have been looking at God’s high calling for women in His Church, and sometimes it may seem that living […]
Grace Energized Women – Teach and Model Godliness
GEW-03 070520AM When the Gospel of the life-changing grace of Jesus Christ entered the Roman world of the New Testament, the condition of family life was very bleak. Paganism had all but erased the plans God had left for marriage and the family. When Christ’s church entered the world sharing His grace, life was […]
Grace-Energized Women Guard their Tongues and Appetites
GEW-02 070513PM Christ’s church was born into a sin-warped, sin-darkened world of mixed-up marriages, sin-scarred lives, and confused families. But men and women who were gloriously saved did not automatically become great wives and mothers, or husbands and fathers. When they came to Christ and were forgiven, God graciously gave them everything they needed to […]
Grace-Energized Women are Reverent in Behavior
GEW-01 070513AM Titus 2:1-8 For the past twelve years it has been my joy to present on Mother’s Day a lineup of the greatest mothers of the Bible. We have seen Hannah, Ruth, Elisabeth, Mary – the Proverbs 31 super-woman, and many others. This year is completely different. The passage we are heading to is […]