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What’s Your Title?

November 5, 2023 /

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 23:12

What’s wrong with wanting to feel good about yourself? Shouldn’t we have a strong sense of self-esteem? And if we’ve worked hard and earned position, why not have it attributed to us?

This is true, to a point. But we need to be aware of something: Conceit is easy. Humility is difficult.

Pride is oneself can easily displace glory that should be given to God. If we are wanting point to look up to us instead of to our heavenly Father, that’s a problem. If we want people to receive wisdom from us instead of God’s holy, inerrant Word, that’s a problem. If we want people to look to us instead of to Jesus, that’s a problem.

We must never get in the way of people seeing, seeking, and pursuing God. When we share, we share Christ, not us. When we teach, we teach Scripture, not us. When we seek glory, it is for God, not us.

And in so doing, they are edified and God is glorified!

It’s not about us. It’s always about the Lord! May He be praised! Always!

SCRIPTURES

  • James 4:10
  • Philippians 2:3
  • Matthew 23:1-12

Righteousness Apart from the Law

October 29, 2023 /

We hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 3:28

The message of the Reformation is as important today as ever, because its message is Scripture’s message: Justification by faith in Jesus apart from works.

That doesn’t diminish works; it elevates God’s Grace. It elevates the work of Jesus in His incarnation, suffering, death, and resurrection. It elevates saving Faith in Jesus given through the Holy Spirit.

Because we are now justified, we revel in the opportunity to do God’s good works whenever and however we can!

Such an important, timeless, Biblical message!

SCRIPTURES

  • Romans 3:19-28

Let Your Light Shine

October 22, 2023 /

You are the light of the world…Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:14a, 16bc

Loving our neighbors is certainly ‘good, right, and salutary,’ but is it enough?

Don’t we also need to “share the Gospel of Jesus” with them?

Of course that is excellent and desired! But loving others is a good unto itself and shines a light that ultimately brings glory to God. Our good deeds draw attention to our good God.

SCRIPTURES

  • 1 Peter 2:4-12
  • Matthew 5:13-16

Love Your Neighbor

October 15, 2023 /

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you…And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.”

Luke 6:27, 31

Ok, so we are called to “love our neighbors,” but for some of us, we may wonder if God really knows MY neighbor and how they aren’t, well, very ‘lovable.’

Peter encourages the elect exiles in Asia Minor to “love one another earnestly from a pure heart.”

This is a beautiful invitation, but the verses leading up to that invitation are profound and reveal how God works inside us to make that kind of earnest love possible.

SCRIPTURES

  • 1 Peter 1:13-25
  • Luke 6:27-33

Become Zealous to Do Good

October 8, 2023 /

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

1 Peter 3:13

We are called to relate to our neighbors. But what does that look like in this fallen world?

God calls His people to pursue the welfare of the people and place right around us (i.e., our “neighbors”), even when they are exiled and treated poorly.

We have been made God’s people by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus, and live by Grace.

Now, we use that reality to set our vision of how to live for others in grace.

SCRIPTURES

  • Jeremiah 29:4-7
  • 1 Peter 3:8-13

Work & Keep the Land

October 1, 2023 /

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

GENESIS 2:15

We all live somewhere with neighbors and it matters to Him how we relate to the people He has put around us.

God values what He creates and has given a creation mandate to humanity: “work and keep the land.”

As Christians, we know that Jesus redeemed us, not to escape this mandate, but to fulfill it right where God put us.

SCRIPTURES

  • Genesis 2:4-17
  • 1 Peter 1:1-2

Love Through Our Strategic Plan

September 24, 2023 /

We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:10

LifeBridge has a strategic plan to help us focus our energies on how to fulfill our mission and serve the Lord and our community.

It includes a focus on “strong youth and family ministries,” having a welcoming, non-judgmental environment, serving “beyond our walls” and “growing in faith.”

Some of this we do better than others, but what a wonderful set of goals as we “love where we live” and “connect people to Jesus!”

SCRIPTURES

  • Psalm 127
  • Ephesians 2:8-10

Love Through Our Mission

September 17, 2023 /

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:36-37, 39

LifeBridge was founded with a mindset of reaching and serving this community where God placed us.

Our mission statement is “Connecting People to Jesus by: Reaching the Lost, Discipling the Saved & Sharing the Love of God with Everyone.”

Indeed, we “love where we live” – and the people who love around us!

SCRIPTURES

  • Matthew 28:18-20
  • Matthew 22:34-40

Be Humble and Love Others — CONFIRMATION SUNDAY

September 10, 2023 /

Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:3

Confirmation is a time to “confirm” your faith in Jesus and commitment to the Scriptures.

It is not the end of a journey, but the promise to continue on growing in the journey of Faith.

In today’s Scriptures we hear the call to “love each other” and “humble” ourselves like children.

These godly commands seem simple in theory, but are difficult in practice.

Yet if we commit ourselves to continue to walk in them, we will be blessed in our walk with God and in how others are brought to Him, too!

May we all confirm our Faith in Jesus in this way!

SCRIPTURES

  • Romans 13:8–10
  • Matthew 18:1–5

Best of Intentions

September 3, 2023 /

Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.”

Matthew 16:24

Sometimes it’s difficult to know and understand God’s Will. At times it seems counter to what makes sense – or to what we want or believe His Will to be.

Peter certainly had that mindset!

It couldn’t possibly be that Jesus – God’s Chosen One, the Messiah, was suppose to “suffer many things…be killed…and on the third day be raised.”

Jesus must have it wrong! Jesus should be corrected.

But Jesus has some harsh words for Peter: “get behind Me, adversary! You are a hindrance to me.”

YIKES!

The thing is, God knows what He’s doing and we need to get on board with His Will; not try to get Him on board with ours.

And His Will is always right! His Will saves. His Will has challenges, but accomplished so much more than we can think or imagine!

May God’s Will be done – and may we not be an adversary to Him!

SCRIPTURES

  • Matthew 16:21-28

Transformers

August 27, 2023 /

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2

We are beset by the Fall; having a body and mind that is corrupted and in decay with the rest of Creation.

But that reality isn’t permanent.

When Jesus offered His Body as a living sacrifice, He reversed that curse; transforming and conforming back to Himself.

Through Faith in Him, we also are no longer to be “conformed to the world” but instead “transformed by the renewal of our minds” and able to offer our bodies as holy, redeemed, living sacrifices in all we do!

How amazing is that?!

God is good!

SCRIPTURES

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(979) 885-7270 [Church]
(713) 965-6761 [Pastor Scott Heitshusen’s Cell]

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P.O. Box 934 (mail)
Sealy, TX 77474

Connecting People to Jesus by:
Reaching the Lost.
Discipling the Saved.
Sharing the Love of Jesus with Everyone.

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