1 Thessalonians 5: 11 - “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”

    Over the thirteen years since I joined this church family, I’ve come to appreciate more and more how well the people of Southside put this verse into action. Still, if everyone took a moment to list a few fellow members they consider to be especially encouraging, I imagine a handful of names would appear more frequently than the rest.

    What is it that makes some people particularly gifted at encouraging others? Paul expressed it this way in 1 Corinthians 16: 18…

A gentle caress, the whisper in your ear, a feeling - to awaken refreshed… To know that you are ready to face any trouble… To know there is no cost too great for your immediate accounting to be compromised… Is it only physical? Is that what serenity feels like? Is it just our senses that give us the feeling of ease? Or, is it that to many, this is only a “first world blessing” anyway, and unobtainable? Have our lack of challenges and loss of struggle made us lose touch? Because of our blessings, have we become desensitized…

THERE IS FORGIVENESS
(By Robert Moore)

If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? (Psa. 130:3)

I am not sure what kind of adversity the Psalmist was facing at the time he wrote the 130th Psalm, but the first two verses give some indication that is was very serious, maybe even life threatening; Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD; Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications. Maybe the Psalmist wrote these words during an emotional…

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    “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). One can hardly fathom a more comforting, more reassuring promise. In Christ we have a new relationship with Jesus our Elder Brother, God our Father, and our newfound brothers and sisters in the family of God. And, to be sure, we have a new relationship with our self- how we view our purpose and how we ought therefore to deport ourselves.

    However, in all honesty, not every relationship becomes new upon obedience to the…

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Have you ever told someone that they “ought to be ashamed of themselves”? Or maybe you’ve had someone tell you, that “you ought to be ashamed of yourself”. Between the two, the answer is likely “YES” for everyone.

The fact is that sometimes we should be ashamed. When an adult is caught cheating on their taxes, or a child is caught cheating on a test... shame is well-placed. Those people “ought to be ashamed.”

But sometimes we can have misplaced shame and be ashamed of things that we shouldn’t be. An Olympic runner from a small country, who tries his best…

As Christians we are commanded to be a praying people: "Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God" (Phi 1. 4: 6).

So, it is clear that we are to pray. But how often and for how long? "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will or God … " (1 Thess. 5:16-18). "Without ceasing" must…