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Instructing and encouraging you to live your life as a disciple of Jesus

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A High Bar

June 5, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

One recent afternoon, I was conversing with a close friend of mine who is not a follower of Christ. I would peg him as agnostic, but he is a thoughtful and intelligent man, so while he disagrees with my faith, we can have civil and rational discussions about it. In the conversation, he surprised me with a comment that was both blunt and telling. He said his problem with Christianity was the forgiveness issue.

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He said he could never sacrifice his own son, and his feeling is that instead of forgiving mankind, God should raise the bar and demand more from us. I thought he was going to say he struggled with forgiveness so couldn’t conceive of God forgiving us, but he went another direction. He considers a high bar a better solution than a merciful gift.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: commitment, Discipleship, Ephesians, eternal life, Exodus, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Isaiah, John, lordship, Matthew, Romans, salvation, Titus, works

Who Do You Fear

May 29, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

Who do you fear more, God or man? Would God believe your answer? Every day, we all have opportunities to proclaim the name of Jesus, but how often do we seize the moment and do so? Why are we so hesitant to stand up for what we believe? I heard Paul Washer say, “If you have enough fear of God, you’ll have no fear of man.” The problem is we don’t fear God enough.

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That’s not a popular statement. We want God to be all love and forgiveness. We’re comfortable with that God. While He is the essence of perfect love and divine forgiveness (1 John 4:8), God is also terrifying in His level of wrath and righteous jealousy (Hebrews 10:31, Exodus 34:14, Nahum 1:2,6). If we had the slightest idea of the power of God, we would be terrified to seek His presence.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: commitment, Exodus, Fear, Galatians, Habakkuk, Hebrews, I John, Isaiah, Luke, Nahum, Numbers, priorities, Proverbs, Psalms, Revelation, Romans

Our God Is Awesome

April 3, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

Do you ever have those moments when it occurs to you how much of an idiot you are? I’m hoping there are some nodding heads out there and I’m not alone in feeling this way. There are those moments of clarity when I’m reminded of who God is, how glorious and majestic He is, and how small I am. I understand God created us in His image (Genesis 1:27), so this is not about diminishing who we are in the eyes of our Maker.

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What I mean is we don’t spend enough time contemplating the sheer awesomeness of the God we serve (Psalm 145:3). If the point of our lives is not to know, glorify, and to be known by our Heavenly Father, then there is no point to any of this (John 17:3). Our God is awesome, beyond all words or comprehension (Isaiah 40:28).

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: 2 Timothy, awe, Colossians, Deuteronomy, Ecclesiastes, Exodus, fear of God, Genesis, glorious, glory, God's glory, humility, I John, Isaiah, Jeremiah, John, majesty, Mark, Matthew, Psalms, Revelation

Outside Influences

February 24, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

When monitoring the outside influences in your life, it’s easy to concentrate so much on things like entertainment and secular activities that we forget one of the most common avenues Satan uses to trip us up comes from within the church. When I was growing up, the list of preachers with world-wide recognition was short. It began and ended with Billy Graham. There were traveling evangelists that were well known in certain regions and countries, but on a global scale, there wasn’t a long list.

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Today, we have a phenomenon known as the celebrity pastor. These are pastors of large churches who have leveraged social media, the internet, and books to build a platform for themselves. Notice the platform they are building is amplifying their name, and that doesn’t always translate into glorifying God’s name. The result is we now have many preachers who are world famous.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: 2 Timothy, Acts, discernment, Exodus, Galatians, God's Word, I John, I Peter, James, John, Matthew, Proverbs, Romans, wisdom

Make No Plans

February 20, 2025 by Tim Sherfy

Studying the second half of the book of Romans this month, one verse keeps poking me when I read it. Romans 13:14 says, “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.” It’s convicting because how often do we make plans to satisfy those very desires of the flesh the Lord admonishes us not to?

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We are always making plans to do something, go somewhere, or become someone. How many of those plans center on bringing or giving glory to God? If you’re like me, not many. We design almost all our plans to fulfill the desires of our flesh rather than to further the Kingdom of God. There are exceptions, of course, but that they are the exceptions should tell us we have a problem.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: Colossians, Discipleship, Ephesians, Exodus, Fear, God's will, Hebrews, I John, James, John, Joshua, Matthew, priorities, Proverbs, Psalms, purpose, Romans

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