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Josh Moody

7 Days to Revitalize Your Life: Mercy, Part 2

August 15, 2021

What God is saying here is that He desires this mercy, love, and faithfulness in us, and not sacrifice. What this means is that He doesn't want religious ritual. Today we tend to focus on our morality over grace. In reality, it is Christ who saves us and then empowers us to obedience.

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There is a lot of religious fake news out there about the Bible. Today we ask "Is the Bible reliable?" We need to have a faith in the Bible that is credible.
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Today we look at the question "Is Jesus really God?" Our story reflects a real life mess that the disciples got themselves into. When we feel like we're battling a headwind in life, we need to hear this good news in the person of Jesus.
August 12, 2021
Answering the question "Why does God allow pain and suffering?" is difficult. Christianity and the gospel have the answer to this question, and it is thrilling when we grasp it.
August 11, 2021
Explore God was a collaborative event held in Chicagoland and designed to blanket a city with opportunities for evangelism. One of the ways this took place was through sermons that address basic questions like today's: "Is There a God?"
August 10, 2021
It becomes part of the nature of a born-again Christian to forgive those around them because they have been forgiven so much themselves. That is what real Christians are like—forgiveness is in their nature now.
August 9, 2021
I was taught to define mercy like this: Grace is God giving us what we don't deserve; mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve. In this story, the tax collectors and the Pharisees energize the story as Jesus teaches about mercy.
August 8, 2021
It is ironic that the most practical part of the Lord's Prayer has become the most theoretically debated—praying for our daily bread. Jesus is modeling for us how to pray for our daily sustenance. Maybe we don't think it's literally about food because many of us don't have to worry about having enough to eat each day.
August 6, 2021
One of the ways we discover who God is is by praying, and we ask him to show himself to us. And yet, a wrong idea of God leads to wrong approaches to prayer. As we study the Lord's Prayer, we are being led to encounter and experience the real God.
August 5, 2021
If we could just do one thing to improve our individual prayer lives, it would be to structure our prayers like the Lord's Prayer. Start with praying for God's will and the advance of his Kingdom, and only after that begin to pray for ourselves.
August 4, 2021
It's easy for us to treat prayer with God like a slot machine: you put in enough prayer and out comes the result. But Christian prayer is a relationship. God knows us full well and we need to talk to him as our Father.
August 3, 2021
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About Josh Moody

Josh Moody (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is the senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, IL., president and founder of God Centered Life Ministries, and author of several books including How the Bible Can Change Your Life. He was an associate fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University (2007-2011), and his Cambridge University doctorate in Theology was published in 2005. Pastor Josh grew up south of London, became a follower of Jesus in the Church of England, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University where he was president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. He is married to Rochelle, and they have four children.

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