Author name: Aslan

  Romans 6:4-7,10-11 AMPC We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. [5] For if we have become one with Him by sharing […]

Mark 3:14 NASB95 And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,   Ministry must always be the overflow of intimacy. If not, then we will be trying to give away out of our emptiness. Jesus appointed the 12 to be continually with him

Western Christians love to study the teachings of Jesus, as all Christians should. The problem is, often Western Christians think that Christianity is primarily about the study of the teachings of Jesus. The truth is, though, if we possess the whole bulk of Jesus’s New Testament teaching and nothing more than that, the world today

  John 11:5-8,14-16 NASB95 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. [6] So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. [7] Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” [8] The disciples said to Him,

  Song of Solomon 8:5 NASB95 “Who is this coming up from the wilderness Leaning on her beloved?”     Every one of us, regardless of our level of spiritual maturity, has to walk through the wilderness from time to time. Those places of pain, trauma and loss are real. Jesus said in John 16:33,

  There is an old Christian poem that goes something like this, “When in trouble or in doubt run in circles, scream and shout.” I’ve never known a time when so many believers, particularly in America, seem so full of alarm and panic. We have somehow forgotten that God is sovereign and that he knows

  Colossians 2:16-19 ESV Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. [17] These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. [18] Let no one disqualify you and defraud

  Colossians 3:9-11 ESV Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices [10] and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in experiential knowledge according to the image of its creator. [11] a renewal in which there is not Greek and Jew,