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Growing Your Faith-Part 2 by Brian Goslee In Growing Your Faith-Part 1, we looked at what could be meant by the phrase “I want to grow in my faith.” We especially focused on two aspects of growing our faith: Strengthening our personal relationship with God Increasing our level of faith in God and His ways instead of our own So, how do we do it? How do we "grow in our faith?" In Growing Your Faith-Part 2, we are exploring some "how-to's" to grow our faith in our everyday lives. As it is with growing and strengthening anything, it..
Growing Your Faith-Part 1 by Brian Goslee How do you grow your faith? When people say "I want to grow in my faith," what do they mean? They may mean many different things. It may mean they want to simply believe there is a God or believe in God. It might mean they want to start going to church more regularly. It could mean they want to start reading the Bible or read it more regularly. It could also mean they want to deepen their personal relationship with God, or have more faith in Him and His ways, which..
LIKE a Roaring Lion by Brian Goslee In Peter’s first letter in the New Testament, he encourages the readers (originally, the Christians in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia) to be watchful and to resist our enemy, the devil. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory..