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Nothing is Sacred

January 19, 2023 by Tim Sherfy

The lack of a sense of reverence and awe in our churches and our lives has been weighing heavily on me in recent days. I touched on this briefly in my last post (see “A Devoted Life”). There is something else troubling me about the way we “do” church in our modern culture. Believers today rarely see prayer as being a sacred approach to the throne of God.

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Almost every church I have attended in the past thirty-five years uses prayer as a transition vehicle from one part of the service to the next. It’s the time when the worship team ascends or exits the platform or simply signals the end of the greeting and the beginning of the service. Prayer has become a vehicle instead of being understood as the great privilege and gift that it is. Even in our church gatherings, it appears nothing is sacred.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: 2 Peter, 2 Timothy, awe, Fear, prayer, Psalms, Revelation, reverance, the church, Titus

A Devoted Life

January 16, 2023 by Tim Sherfy

There are times you encounter things in life you just can’t shake. As I exited the church I was attending recently, the pastor and a man who had identified himself as the head elder were standing at the door, ostensibly to say goodbye to people as they were leaving. As we approached, I heard them conversing somewhat passionately about… the NFL playoffs.

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That may seem innocent enough, but it has been gnawing at me ever since. I suppose it was their way of letting off steam after putting in their obligatory sixty-five minutes of church for the week. To me, it was a picture of everything wrong with Christianity in a five-second window. We are so enraptured by the world that we no longer understand what it means to live a sacred and devoted life.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: Acts, devotion, Discipleship, I John, Matthew, mission, priorities, purpose, the church

What Have We Lost?

December 19, 2022 by Tim Sherfy

As I survey the landscape of the modern church and Christianity at large, I find myself asking, “What have we lost?” I grew up in the church and in a Christian family with Christian parents who continue to love the Lord even in their later years today. My father is a pastor, and church attendance was never an option for me growing up.

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These days, I eagerly look forward to driving to my local church each week. Church has changed a lot from when I was a young boy, and I have eagerly embraced many of those changes. But as I survey where the church is today, it is obvious we have lost a great deal along the way.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: Colossians, Ephesians, priorities, purpose, the church

No Santa in Christmas

December 8, 2022 by Tim Sherfy

For followers of Jesus, there should be no Santa in Christmas. I realize I probably lost half of you right there thinking this would be some legalistic diatribe or Scrooge-inspired missive. But if you are serious about the Lordship of Christ, I hope you’ll hear me out. Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year because of Jesus and nothing else.

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The whole “good will toward men” thing happens only because the Prince of Peace was born into this world a couple of thousand years ago. It is the birth of our Savior that brings joy to the world. The peace and joy of Christmas find their source in the birth of Jesus and nowhere else.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: commitment, Discipleship, focus, I Corinthians, I Peter, the church

Tell Everyone

November 28, 2022 by Tim Sherfy

Does the fact so many don’t know Jesus break your heart? Every morning when I pray, I bring an ever-growing list of names before the Lord. So many of my family and friends do not know Jesus as their Savior. The older I get, the more devastating this becomes. The number of people I know who don’t know Jesus convicts me that I’m not doing enough.

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What is it about my life that is not compelling enough for them to want Jesus? I know it is the work of the Holy Spirit to convict a person, and I should not take this all on myself. Yet the command of our Lord to go and tell everyone about Him looms large in my conscience as I feel the weight of my responsibility.

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Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: Colossians, commitment, Discipleship, Ephesians, Galatians, great commission, Hell, I Corinthians, Mark, Matthew, mission, salvation, the church

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