February 24, 2024 by Mike Sciarra
Love the Lord not the world....
November 18, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Dear Christian, we seem too often to wrongly think that everything and everyone must align to please us, or all is loss and everything is a failure. This is painful idolatry and must be replaced with sincere worship....
September 2, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
When Jesus changes your heart, your motives and affections and desires change....
August 21, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Rejoicing in Regeneration and Hope ...
August 18, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
People wonder all the time if they are really a believer. Sometimes other people see a person who says they are Christian and wonder if that is a true profession of faith. This can be for any number of reasons. But there is one specific way found in 2 Timothy 2:19 where are you can know if a person is truly a Christian....
August 17, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Let’s pattern our baptisms and church membership as closely to the scriptural pattern as we can. Let's link baptism and church membership more closely. Let's see them as part of a unified process to glorify God, build up believers, and reach the world....
July 28, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
As we live a Christ-honoring life… Pure gospel living looks different than posing for pictures It stands in stark contrast to life lived under lights A sovereign God changes our motives The authoritative Word renews our minds ...
May 20, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
As I am alive, raised, and seated with Christ by God’s grace… 5 ongoing outcomes I observe about God’s grace towards me....
February 23, 2023 by Mike Sciarra
Has life put a lot of mileage on you? Are you weighed down by the toll it has taken? Are you weary? Are you troubled? Do you feel hopeless? There is hope of forgiveness in Jesus....
October 9, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Expositional preaching, Jesus
Expositional living is living that is centered on reading the Word, finding out the explanation of a passage, and applying that to daily life. That is done in context of following Jesus and in the context of the particular passage. That should be a less self-centered way of living. It is very easy to jump around from need to need and text to text and just seek to have ou...
Keep ReadingOctober 9, 2015 | Tags: preaching, God's Word, Holy Spirit
It's easy to only think of preaching's effect as what happens afterwards, but what about the actual preaching moment? The preaching moment is the most crucial and significant. ...
Keep ReadingOctober 4, 2015 | Tags: Prayer
We don't make God do anything. God does as He pleases. He acts according to His sovereign good pleasure and perfect will. And He expects us to pray and wait expectantly on Him to act. True. He taught us to pray "Your kingdom come, Your will be done" (Matthew 6:10). So where does praying and waiting expectantly for Him to act come in?...
Keep ReadingSeptember 29, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Church, devoted to Christ, healing
I have been preaching in the book of Acts now for several months and we are 13 sermons into the book. The past four weeks we have focused on four passions of a church devoted to Christ: the apostles' teaching (the Word of God), fellowship (caring community), the breaking of bread (remembering Jesus' death), and the prayers (together and often). ...
Keep ReadingSeptember 17, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: worship, Music, consumers, Jesus
It is so easy to come to worship with the mindset of a critical consumer rather than a Christ-honoring contributor....
Keep ReadingAugust 30, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: acknowledging God, confessing sin, Repentance
True repentance is a change of heart and mind and actions; away from sin and toward God. ...
Keep ReadingAugust 27, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: radical, Preeminence, Jesus
Christ's Lordship transforms us into free radicals. Free in Christ to live radically for Jesus and the Gospel. ...
Keep ReadingAugust 22, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: PENTECOST
A sort of poem...forgive the CAPS. I'm not yelling.:-)...
Keep ReadingAugust 20, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: Growing as a Christian, sanctification
Thoughts on God process of making believers more like Christ. ...
Keep ReadingAugust 16, 2015 by Mike Sciarra | Category: Looking to Jesus blog | Tags: son of God, lordship, Jesus is Lord
Let the nations rage. Let secularists and humanists boast of their autonomy. Let everyone stand in opposition. Let them drag your name through the mud in the public square. Let the chips fall where they may. You acknowledge Christ's Lordship. You stand for Gospel truth. Because you are eternally safe in Christ....
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