Mature Christian Faith is...

Themes:     Growing in Christ   Loving Others   Sharing your Faith   Tithing      Leadership     Building Relationships

Themes:

Actively Growing in Christ   

• NEW: Words that Saved my Life: Lessons from Odd Places

• Squeaky Clean

• Cure for Cynicism

• Reset Button - confessing sin is like a reset button in our relationship with God

• Ethical Standards - What are your ethical standards and convictions?

• Fighting for good over evil. Are you a fighter?

• Keep yourself in God's Love

• Self Esteem - A story of low self esteem and insights into how God wants me to view myself

• Personal Revival

• Confusion - When confusion prevails, then what?

• Knowing God - are you enjoying knowing God? You should be.

• Count it all Joy

• Missions Trip. Not now!

• Olga - a young communist that God was watching

• Wait for the Lord

• Worship - an example of how our family worships Christ at Christmas time

• Don't Complain

• Don't Limit God in the ways that he speaks to you

• Closed Doors, Opened Doors

• Open my Eyes - a lesson on spending time getting to know God versus just learning knowledge about Him

• I Want to Know Him - do you long to know Christ deeply, in the depths of your soul?

• What is your Standard of Living?

• Thank the Lord Anyway - a story and example of how I found some things to be thankful for in a bad situation

• Honesty versus Dishonesty - a true story of buying cream at the store

• Do what you can - what would God like you to do for him today?

• Fully Committed to God

• Serving the Lord Wholeheartedly

• Paradise Road - a story of shining your light

• Peace or Panic?

• Pressing On! - a lesson on focusing our eyes and goals on Christ

• Pressing on towards a Goal - a story of how we accomplished a God given dream to create a web site.

• Count your Blessings

• Going to see the King

• Heaven - How to be confident you will go to heaven when you die?

• A Little Self-Control Goes A Long Way

• Are YOU Ready?

• Attacks of the devil and enemy? How to combat them

• Be Joyful. Can you be joyful for one whole day?

• Cling to the Lord your God

Loving Others

• NEW: Opportunity International - African story of a Micro-loan for Esther in a small village

• Visiting a Christian chat room (a hostess' story)

• Knitting for Unwed Mothers

• Hidden Talent - As we get past 55 years of age we often discover talents that we were never aware of.

• Book Club - how to put a book club together

• Food Bank - A volunteer shares about her rewarding experiences

• Tea and Comfort Ministries - Helping Women resolve their issues in a Safe Place

• Merle Henegan: The "Mother Teresa of the Gold Fields" in South Africa. Helping the poor in the squatter camps.

• Deadly Wars - be a giver and help those in need

• Cup of Water - a reminder of the shortage of clean drinking water around the world

• Refugees - Is God impressing on you to help provide food, clothing, and medical supplies for the refugees?

Building Relationships

• Change-Agents - it is amazing how random acts of kindness affect those around you.

• NEW:  Coming Alongside of others.  What that looks like.

• Loneliness

• Do it NOW - renewing relationships that have strayed apart

• Forgiveness is good for your Health

• Dandelion - Three lessons I've learned from dandelions

• Words - The power of the tongue

• Standing up for People you believe in vs. sitting on the fence

• Enhancing your Relationships - from a single woman's perspective

• Whatever you do...

• 19 Ways to Encourage Others

• Encouraging Words - a story of how God used random people to encourage me during a hurtful week.

• Golden Rule - What happened to it?

• Love is Patient and Kind

• Insights into broken relationships and what "the fellowship of his suffering" means

• Guilt - Getting rid of false guilt. Getting rid of real guilt

• Children - Raising children

• Children - Teaching Children

• Lies - speaking the truth or speaking lies

• Be Patient. An example or impatience and prayer for patience.

• Be Aware. Our lives are constantly being observed. A story of being watched.

Sharing your Faith                 

• I had a Very Real Dream - I nearly drown.

• NEW:  Coming Alongside of others.  What that looks like. 

• Writing Down your Spiritual Journey

• Testimony - tips to narrow it down so that you can tell others about your salvation in a clear and easy way.

• Your Life may be the only Bible that others will read

• Conversation Starters - steering conversations to spiritual things

• Go Talk to your Neighbor - a story of following God's lead when he asks us to comfort a neighbor

• Coffee Parties that count

• Caring enough to tell others about Jesus

• One link in the Chain

• Leave the results to God - “What would you do differently if you knew you only had until the end of this month to live?”

• Sharing Jesus with your Neighbors

• We are Christ's Ambassadors

• How to make friends with an immigrant neighbour

 

Leadership

• Accomplishing your Dreams  Full version

• Accomplishing your Dreams condensed version

• Goals - Setting measurable goals

• Qualities of Mature Leadership

• Effective Leadership - what I've learned

• Leadership tips

• Leaders need Jesus too

• Army of Grandparents

• A Time to Dream

Building an Effective Team - this can apply to families, work, or volunteer groups.

Tithing

• Tithing - Try Tithing

• Tithing - The Generosity Habit

• Checking your Spiritual compass

• Do it for Jesus - raising funds for Christian ministry or raising funds for the kids' school. Perspsective.

Volunteer Opportunities

Join our Prayer Team

Join our team of online missionaries/mentors