Life Bible Church Pastor Joel Barrere

Words reveal character; Speaking righteous words and listening to righteous words from a righteous heart is proof of The Life of Jesus in us.

The willful slander of Jesus is no laughing matter, nor is quenching or discrediting the Holy Spirit. If we do it, we run into a very dangerous territory. If we follow Jesus, however, he will lead us to bind and plunder!

Jesus was called and empowered by God to gently lead God’s children home. Do I have a gentle spirit?

God made the Sabbath for man, not man for the Sabbath. Showing mercy is a more reliable sign of a righteous life than giving up things.

Carrying weight, we aren’t asked to carry and fighting a fight that has already been won, we become exhausted. Jesus invites us to lay down that burden and come to Him for rest.

God seems to delight in defying our expectations, and Jesus and John certainly did that in their generation. Their vindication- and ours- is not meeting people's expectations, but in bearing good fruit for God and satisfying Him!