Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image James Mc Conkey said that, “Faith is dependence on God. And this God-dependence only begins when self-dependence ends. And self-dependence only comes to its end, with some of us, when sorrow, suffering, affliction, broken plans and hopes bring us to that place of self-helplessness and…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image Without Christ we are out of harmony with God and life is all about our selves as we use people, things, and circumstances to meet our needs. But in Christ we are in harmony with God and life is all about Him who has already…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image We are all motivated to want to have our needs met.  It is easy to be deceived into worldly thinking  that those needs can be met other than in God. We have physical needs like food, clothing, shelter, rest, protection etc but we also have…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image Our spiritual life is not a matter of trying to do things for Jesus but rather resting in what He has already done for us.  In Gal. 2:20 we see that Christ’s life is our life for this exchange is a work of grace and…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image Prayer is such an important spiritual discipline as we commune with the Lord as an intimate friend.  John Piper said, “Prayer is God’s delight because it shows the reaches of our poverty and the riches of His grace.”  When we neglect prayer or it is…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image We will be drawn to certain spiritual disciplines, depending on our personalities. It is good though to try some occasionally that we would not normally gravitate to. Since I have written on several of these before I will only highlight a few. The discipline of…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image In our spiritual lives we need a balance between dependence and discipline. God works in us by the Holy Spirit but we are also told to work out our salvation (not work for our salvation) Jesus wants to reproduce His life in us and this…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image Our presuppositions shape our perspective in life and our perspective shapes our priorities and our priorities shape what we do. We all have a set of presuppositions about life, even we are not really aware of it. So often we choose temporal and earthly visible…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image “There is no sin so great that God will not forgive but there is no sin so small that it does not need to be forgiven.”  Because of Jesus death on the cross, we are offered the wonderful gift of forgiveness and a secure relationship…

Devotions based on Kenneth Boa’s book, Conformed to His Image As we grow in our awareness of our freedom in Christ, more and more we are able to put others first.  “Do nothing out of selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely…