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(Re)making Jesus Christ the Center of My Life, part 4/5.

December 31, 2009 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 0 Comment

This is the fourth part of a series looking at how to (re)make Jesus Christ the center of our lives. We’ve talked about focusing on God, repenting and confessing our sins. Today we talk about bearing fruit because fruits should naturally follow repentance and confession. As John the Babtist said “Bear fruit worthy of repentance.”(Matt. 3:8). Peter is a great example of a person who repented, confessed his sins and then moved on to produce spiritual fruit in his life….

(Re)making Jesus Christ the Center of My Life, part 2/5.

December 29, 2009 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 4 comments

At the moment the cock crowed for the second time. The Peter remembered that Jesus had said to him, “Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept. (Mark 14:72) Once again Peter shows us how to walk in faith. When we have sinned, we need to break down and weep. We need to repent. We need to stop living for ourselves and start living for God. We need to turn around…

(Re)making Jesus Christ the Center of My Life, part 1/5.

December 28, 2009 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 4 comments

Peter is one of my favorite Bible characters. I idenitify with him because he was passionate and very human. But, most of all, I admire his willingness to grow in grace and let the Holy Spirit transform him to a mature man of God. Let’s see how Peter can help us to take the first steps towards (re)making Jesus Christ the center of our lives.During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake….