by Joe Paris | Oct 25, 2018 | Daily Devotional
The church needs to stop expecting the lost to come to church and start focusing on taking the church to the lost. An erroneous idea started long ago that the Church was a building, a location, a place that people went to worship Jesus. The problem with this ideology...
by Joe Paris | Sep 11, 2018 | Daily Devotional
The words we think form the person we become. The greatest determiner and deterrent in your life is often you! The truth is, most of us speak to ourselves in a manner that we would never use with our worst enemy. That is a huge problem for the believer! Words cut like...
by Joe Paris | Aug 15, 2018 | Daily Devotional
I vividly remember growing up in this small country church back in the Midwest. Sunday mornings consisted of Sunday school class, followed by the Sunday morning service. One of the Sunday school lessons that was repeated most often and stuck with me was the armor of...
by Joe Paris | Jul 2, 2018 | Daily Devotional
The Bible is called a book of hope and a book of joy, yet somehow quite possibly the saddest sentence in all of world history is found in Ephesians: As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, — Ephesians 2:1 NIV Do you hear what Paul is saying to...
by Joe Paris | May 18, 2018 | Daily Devotional
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, — 2 Timothy 3:12 In the Old Testament, there is a story in the book of Job about a man that goes through an unreal amount of opposition. Job loses his possessions, his health,...
by Joe Paris | Apr 2, 2018 | Daily Devotional
“If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen, nothing else matters.” — Jaroslav Pelikan Every area, every detail, every element of life hinges upon the resurrection. If Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, then nothing in...
