Faith & Christian Living

The resurrection from the dead Paul’s aim in life was to forsake everything so that He may gain Christ, and know Him, the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering, being conformed to Him in His death. All these were to lead Him to attain this one thing: the resurrection from the […]

That I may know… the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death (Philippians 3:10). As we learned in our previous study, it has not only been granted to us to believe in Jesus but also to suffer for His sake (Philippians 1:29). This fellowship we have with Christ’s sufferings is for the purpose

That I may know… the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:10). So far we have been dealing with the steps laid out for us to fulfill our call to conform to the image of Jesus Christ. These are repenting from our sins and coming to God through faith in Jesus Christ, developing intimacy with Jesus

After coming to know Jesus and developing intimacy with Him, the next step in our ultimate calling to conform to the image of Christ is to know the power of His resurrection (Philippians 3:7-10). The resurrection of Jesus Christ is pivotal to Christianity as we read in 1 Corinthians 15:14-17, “If Christ has not been

We are called to be conformed to the image of Christ. This is our calling and destiny in Christ. Even so, walking in the full image of Jesus is not instantaneous. The Scriptures outline the stages we go through to walk in the full measure of the stature of Christ (Ephesians 4:13; Philippians 3:7-11). As

As we have established so far, conforming to the image of Christ is the high calling of God to us. This is the ultimate decider of where and how we will spend eternity. To excel in any aspect of this life and yet fail in God’s high calling is to get your priorities misplaced and

As mentioned in the previous study, God’s high or topmost call to us is for us to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. Let us examine the Scriptures to prove this further. Romans 8:29-30 says, “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14). Following Paul’s example in Philippians 3:13, we are commonly advised to forget the past and reach forth unto those things which are ahead. But what are the things we are to ultimately press on for? Paul

The Scriptures teach this truth: “you are slaves of the one whom you obey” (Romans 6:16). There is no middle ground: you are either a slave of sin or of God and righteousness (Romans 6:16; Matthew 12:30). To obey sin, and thereby be its slave is to reap ever-increasing wickedness and death, and to present

Love: The ultimate evidence of a faith that works The Scriptures teach that “If I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:2). Not only are you nothing without love, but the very faith you have becomes powerless and valueless when it is not