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Faith Comes By Hearing (Parable of the Sower)

1 Comment / Faith and Trust / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitter Romans 10:17 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Notice how it does not say, “Faith comes by hearing the Word of God”.  Yet that is how most Christians interpret it.  It is a two step process, not a one step.  Faith comes by hearing, but […]

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Paul’s Thorn

1 Comment / Healing, Spititual Weapons and Warfare / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterIntroduction Over the years, people have accumulated all kinds of ideas about what Paul’s thorn in the flesh was, and what was its purpose.  The traditional interpretation is that God gave Paul some sort of sickness, possibly an eye disease, to keep him humble.  Paul prayed three times to ask that it be taken

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Listening to the Lord

Leave a Comment / Guidance, Prayer, Spiritual Growth / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterHearing from God Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. God leads His sons.  The Greek is huios – meaning mature sons.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the mature sons of God. We are sons

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Agree with your Advocate

Leave a Comment / Redemption, Righteousness, Words and the Tongue / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterUnder Law  1 John 1:8-9 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 2:1-2 1 My little children, these

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Paul and Silas in jail, singing

Rejoicing in Adversity

Leave a Comment / Faith and Trust, Spiritual Growth, Trials / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterThere is plenty of adversity to go around in the world today. Adversity means a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune. You can also relate it to the word adversary, which is someone opposed or against us. In fact, the Hebrew word for adversary is satan. John 10:10  The thief

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The Christian and Santa Claus

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitter Note:   this is a piece I wrote for our church newsletter when I was pastoring waaaay back in 1994.  At the time, my boys were 12, 9, 6, 3, and 2.   I realize there is a difference in opinion on what to do with the secularization of Christmas and Santa Claus.  But here

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How to Handle Temptation – Part Two

Leave a Comment / Spiritual Growth / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterSome of the key points from Part One The Conscience My definition of conscience is the mental and spiritual faculty of man which bears witness within him as to what is right and wrong.  We experience the effects of our conscience when we try to go against its dictates; then it warns us by

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How to Handle Temptation – Part One

1 Comment / Spiritual Growth / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterTemptation is Inevitable What is temptation?  The dictionary defines it as enticement to sin or do wrong.  It involves some sort of pull or influence on you to act or do something.  It almost always has a negative connotation – we don’t think of ourselves as being tempted to do good.  Matthew 18:7 NIV

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Look in the Mirror

Leave a Comment / Identity In Christ, Spiritual Growth / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Principal of Identification The principal of  Identification is that Christ was our substitute, and God counts the things that He did as if we did them. Let’s look at an example. Romans 6:1-12 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?2 Certainly not! How shall we

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Believe His Prophets

Leave a Comment / Faith and Trust, prophetic, The Nation / Scott Bernardi

Share this…FacebookTwitterNote: I originally wrote this in 2020 right after the election. See the update in 2024 after the election. The word for 2020 can be found in 1 Chronicles 20:20 2 Chronicles 20:15-20 15 And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the

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