Pastor Brad’s Notebook

03 Oct Devotional Thought – The Spirit As Herald To Holiness

"And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." Romans 8:10 The true test of whether a person is in Christ, Paul says, is not found in the body, but the Spirit. He tells us that after Christ comes into a person's life, the body may for a while remain dead. In other words, the body's bad habits from the past may not immediately die. However, even in the middle of what would seem to be the cold remains of winter there will already be a harbinger of Spring. The body may still be dead, but the Spirit will be alive.

28 Sep Devotional Thought – The Lord’s Use Of Adversity

"What profit is it that we...have walked as mourners Before the LORD of hosts?" Malachi 3:14 What profit is there in walking mournfully? None. The only thing that truly profits a man is joy. You see, the advantage to sorrow's fire is not found in the things that are consumed, but rather in those things that it cannot consume. So, the best and most beneficial use of adversity is for it to reveal the one thing that it cannot take way - my joy.

26 Sep Devotional Thought – An Unparalleled Life Of Purity

"For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens." Hebrews 7:26 I don't think that the writer of Hebrews intends that we understand these three words - holy, harmless, undefiled - to simply be different ways of saying the same thing. I believe that what we have here are the three different stages in the development of personal purity in the life of the Christian.