by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 31, 2013
The Truth Shall Set You Free Truth is an attribute of God and is unlimited, unchanging, and absolute. All truth is God’s truth and the idea of absolute truth stems from His omniscience (all knowing). He is the Creator; and our ability to comprehend truth is dependent...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 30, 2013
Guilty and Shamed No More It is a horrible existence to live under guilt and shame. After taking hundreds and hundreds of people through the Steps to Freedom In Christ, I have seen their countenance change when that load of guilt and shame is lifted. Half way through...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 29, 2013
Overcoming Shame Christians are forgiven, but not perfect. The Lord will not condemn us and He will remember our sins no more. We, however, have to live with the temporal consequences of our own attitudes and actions. If God eradicated all the temporal consequences,...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 28, 2013
Overcoming Guilt When theologians talk about guilt, they are talking about an objective deviation from an ethical standard. To feel guilty and to be guilty are not the same thing. Apart from Christ, we all stand guilty before the law whether we feel like it or not....
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 25, 2013
The Goal of Instruction The apostle Paul warns his “true son in the faith” (1 Tim. 1:2), and the church about getting off track in their walk with God. There will be teachers of false doctrines (vss. 3,4), some will fall back under the law, which was made for the...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 24, 2013
Reconciliation David had committed adultery with Bathsheba while her husband was on the battle field. After discovering she was pregnant, he brought her husband home from the field to lie with her in order to cover up his sin, but he refused to. So David put him on...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 23, 2013
Repentance Many people conceal their sins, live in denial, and never confess them. Confession is the first step to repentance, but that alone may not bring any lasting change. Repentance literally means a change of mind resulting in a change of living. We all hold...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 22, 2013
Confession Confess (homolegeo) literally means to speak the same thing (homos, same, and lego, to speak) or to agree with. It is the opposite of denial whether spoken or unspoken. It can mean a public confession of faith as in Matt. 10:32, “Whoever acknowledges...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 21, 2013
Becoming Like Jesus Becoming like Jesus is God’s will for our lives (1 Thess. 4:3). Growing in Christ would not even be possible if God had not, “Qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion...
by Cindy Bergenback | Oct 18, 2013
Progressive Sanctification God performed a gracious work when he called us out of darkness into His marvelous light and granted us the status of holiness by virtue of our union with Christ. He did this so that we can be holy as He is holy (1 Pet. 1:15). The process of...