God's Rewards

God evaluates and rewards our obedience - and not our potential.

Resolving Differences

God's living presence in a relationship overcomes differences that might otherwise create division and disharmony. Often the presence of Jesus Christ in our relationships is the only thing that makes it possible to overcome our otherwise irreconcilable differences.

God's Standards

God has given us His standards for living. They are to be the criteria for all of our decision making. So while God has given us free choice, He has not left our choices and behaviors up to us and our opinions. Put another way, God have us free choice - but He asks us to give it back to Him, not doing what we choose - but rather doing as He chooses.

Helping Others

God supplies most of us with the personal and financial resources to respond to the needs of others. If we all realized how God has blessed us and equipped us - and if we all used our resources to do God's will with those blessings - hunger and poverty would no longer be an issue in our world today.

It has never been God's will that people die from starvation, drought, and other preventable conditions and diseases. They do so only because of the sin in this world - which is often found in our indifference towards these people.

Friendly With Sin

We cannot be friendly with sin or be close to sin and expect our lives to unaffected. We will become like whatever or whomever we spend time with. It is our nature.

Responsibility

If you are a Christian - or claim to be - God holds you responsible for the purity of your actions and thoughts. He expects the quality of your example and the truth of your words to be representative of His spirit that lives within you.

False Idols

An idol can be anything that is reverent in my life. The only appropriate idol is God. Everything else then is a false idol - which would be anything more reverent than God. What in my life gets higher priority than God? Sleep? Money? Convenience? Entertainment? Vacations? Sports? Exercise? Television? Recognition? My kids? All are potentially false idols. Out of context, they become sin.