EIL Books!
Click any book cover to order now!
NEW!
These books will help guide your daily Bible reading with insights into each passage you read.
Hope Enabler is the real-life story of one Christian parent’s struggle with a runaway child and the hope that God enabled her to have during the darkest moments of that struggle.
Machu & Jack
(Order them now on Amazon!)-
Tag Archives: heaven
Transformed Podcast #184 – Life’s All About the Mission!
When Jesus called His disciples together and shared His heart and passion with them, He reminded them life was all about the mission! We call it the “Great Commission.” God longs to bring His lost children home, thus the Great … Continue reading
Posted in Missional, Transformed
Tagged discipleship, ETHNICITIES, evangelism, faith, heaven, hell, hope, Jesus, lost, mission, purpose, training
Leave a comment
Transformed Episode #174 – Love Holds Our Spiritual Family Caringly!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. In a day when people say they don’t need “organized religion,” our final study today shows us that the true disciple of Jesus simply cannot exist apart from the support group God has given them: … Continue reading
Posted in Love of God, Transformed
Tagged baptism, discipleship, Gospel, Great Commission, heaven, Jesus, love, love one another, lust, new life, obedience, partner, relationship, sacrifice, support group
Leave a comment
Transformed Episode #170 – Before He Takes Us to Heaven!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. The Church of Jesus understands these are our “last days.” In our final study on the Church, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor at Pacific Baptist Church in El Segundo, California shows us that the … Continue reading
Posted in Church Health, Transformed
Tagged archangel, call of God, Christ, church, city, dead in Christ, generosity, God, grieve, heaven, hope, ignorant, imminent return, Jesus, last days, make disciples, new, pain, pretenders, return, rose, shofar
Leave a comment
Transformed Episode #164 – Jesus, Our Victorious Conqueror!!
Welcome to the Transformed podcast. What is life all about? Is it just random events and chaos or is there a plan? If there is a plan, who is the Planner? In today’s study, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, lead Pastor … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus, Transformed
Tagged Christianity, church, destiny, God, Great Tribulation, heaven, Israel, Jesus, lamb of God, life, Lion from the tribe of Judah, praise, Rapture, the Root of David, throne room, Time of Jacob’s Trouble, worship
Leave a comment
Eternal Life, Eating Flesh, Drinking Blood!
But what is eternal life? Is it eternal self-esteem? Is it a heaven full of mirrors? Or snowboards, or gold links, or black-eyed virgins? No. Jesus tells us exactly what he meant: “And this is eternal life, that they know … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged call, Capernaum, commitment, communion, conservative, eternal life, evangelical, faith, heaven, Jesus, Jew, Knowing God, Lamb, lamb of God, passover, prayer, purpose, redemption, relationship, salvation
Leave a comment
So That You May Not Die!
Photo Credit: slicedbreadmag.com Saving faith is the cry of a new creature in Christ. And the newness of the new creature is that it has a new taste. What was once distasteful or bland is now craved. Christ himself has … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged Christ, Christian, distress, eternal, eternal life, everlasting life, faith, God, godliness, guidance, heaven, help, hope, Jesus, life, prayer, reconnection, relationship, rescue, struggle, wisdom
Leave a comment
Caring For the Sick!
Photo Credit: fvdb.wordpress.com Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged Bible, broken, busy, care, Christ, Christian, compassion, compassionate, disciple, disciples, discipleship, faith, healing, health, heaven, hope, Jesus, needy, pain, people, pressures, problems, sick, spirit, Word of God
Leave a comment
Episode 143 – Where Is God When You Are In Need of Hope?
In our recent national election in the United States, people on both sides of the political aisle were touting their candidate as the solution for what ails the country. However, as we have said before again and again, politicians … Continue reading
Posted in God Is With Us!, Transformed
Tagged affliction, afraid, Ahaz, angry, beligerant, broken, calm down, civil war, cooperate, cowardly, decimation, destroyed, encouragement, enemies, enemy, fear, fiscal cliff, future, God, government, heart, heaven, hesitant, hope, humiliation, Immanuel, Jesus, long-term, obstinate, plot, quiet, rebellious, Shady Hook Elementary, shield, short-term, spiritual, starvation, storm, threatened, throne room, Trust
Leave a comment
God Rewards Right Motives and Behaviors!
Artwork courtesy of neropta.com Leaders must develop a philosophy toward rewards that is incredibly simple: Reward performance and only performance. ~ Neil H. Snyder and Angela P. Clontz Rewards. Most “Christians” have a great suspicion when anyone starts talking … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged Bible, Christian, church, disciple, faith, generosity, generous, heaven, Jesus, leader, love, performance, reward, rewards, teaching
2 Comments
Confess or Deny?
Artwork by godsbreath.wordpress.com If Peter walked away from Christ and his friends (Matthew 26:56), THEN tried to follow Jesus at a distance AND also placed himself in a very unhealthy environment (Matthew 26:58) which led to him eventually denying Christ … Continue reading
Posted in Becoming Like Jesus
Tagged compassion, confess, deny, father, God, heaven, hostile, Jesus, love, relationship, skeptic, witness
Leave a comment
