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holiness

  1. Christsfreeservant

    Not Called us For Impurity

    Walk to Please God 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 ESV “Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord...
  2. G

    This is why we have so many denominations: its not the truth, unless everyone sees it differently

    Hi there, So a foundational truth: This is why we have so many denominations of Churches, we are all trying to express the truth, more and more differently - that is, for the sake of the truth. In reality, there could be more and more differences, different names for Churches at different...
  3. Christsfreeservant

    We Ought to Walk to Please God

    1 Thessalonians 4:1 ESV “Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.” Walk to Please God What is our walk? It is how we live our lives day in and day...
  4. Christsfreeservant

    Make Straight Paths for Your Feet

    Hebrews 12:3-11 ESV “Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as...
  5. Christsfreeservant

    I Urge You to Walk

    Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” A...
  6. Christsfreeservant

    Our Faith in Practice

    Romans 3:21-26 ESV “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the...
  7. Minister Monardo

    The Redemption of Our Body

    Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If you met someone who is a picture of healthy living by diet and exercise, you would not by outward appearance think “now this a child of God”. If you met someone who is...
  8. Christsfreeservant

    I Do Not Run Aimlessly

    2 Peter 3:10-13 ESV “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. “Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what...
  9. Minister Monardo

    The Heat Of Seven Suns

    The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Peter 3:12 This is the binding up and the healing of the people: a baptism of fire. Isaiah 30: 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters...
  10. Christsfreeservant

    Desiring a Changed Life

    Ephesians 4:17-19 ESV “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They...
  11. J

    Need help understanding

    Hi all, Sorry this may be kinda lengthy but feel that explaining my background will help to narrow down some answers. I used to belong to a church group, actually grew up in a church group called Holiness pentacostal. We believe in long skirts/dresses, long hair for women, short hair for men...
  12. Christsfreeservant

    A Good Servant of Christ Jesus

    The Apostle Paul wrote this as a letter to Timothy, but that doesn’t mean that some or all of it can’t be applied to our lives in some way. For, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be...
  13. Christsfreeservant

    Models to All the Believers

    1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 NIV “For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction.” Many people today who call themselves Christians, and who collectively refer...
  14. Christsfreeservant

    Without Cause

    John 15:18-21 ESV “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you...
  15. Christsfreeservant

    Don't Let Them Persuade You

    2 Peter 3:13-14 ESV “But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. “Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.” There is a day coming when the Lord will...
  16. Christsfreeservant

    A Complete Turnabout

    2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all...
  17. Christsfreeservant

    You Can't Afford to Ignore This

    I Peter 2:1-3 ESV “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation — if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” We, as followers of Jesus Christ, are to rid...
  18. Bible Highlighter

    Can Christians live a holy life?

    Can Christians live a holy life? Note: I am not asking this question because I doubt that a believer can live a holy life. I do believe that a believer can live holy by God's power (Thereby giving Him the glory); My question is asked so as to see what Christians today say about this kind of...
  19. Christsfreeservant

    Serious-Minded About Jesus

    Preparing for Action 1 Peter 1:13 ESV “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” We must be serious-minded about our faith in Jesus Christ and not take God, his grace...
  20. Christsfreeservant

    Suffering Not Without Purpose

    Romans 5:3-5 ESV “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been...
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