CRUX Daily: Unequally Yoked

Read: 2 Corinthians 6:14

Reflect: What does it mean to be yoked with a non-believer? What type of relationships do you have that may look like this?

Request (Prayer): Father, help me to not be unequally yoked with non-believers.

Have you ever been in a really dark room and couldn’t find your way around? What do you need in order to see in the dark? Light, right? When the light enters in the room, is the darkness gone? Essentially, yes because the light now is in that room which overpowers the darkness. But once you turn that light off, what happens? Darkness now overpowers the light.

Can light and darkness co-exist together? No. Why not? Because when light is in the room, the darkness is gone. If there is no light in the room, then darkness is the only thing present.

We can apply these same principles to those who are Christians and to those who are not. How? The symbol of light is a symbol of those who are believers, even as Jesus told us to be a light of the world in Matthew 5:14. And those who do not follow Christ are associated with darkness. The reason being is because it is better to be walking in the light than in darkness.

Is it safer to walk in darkness or in light? It’s much more safe to walk in light than in a pitch black room, and yet that is what the unbeliever walks in, darkness.
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CRUX Daily: Obeying Our Earthly Parents to Glorify Our Heavenly Father

Read: Ephesians 6:1-4

Reflect: What is your role in the the family.

Request (Prayer): Lord, help me to bring honor to my parents in all that I do.

In Ephesians 6, we see the role of both the child and the parent. To answer today’s question, “What is your role in the family,” is founding Ephesians 6:1, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” Do you see the answer? There it is! Right in front of us! We are to obey our parents, but it doesn’t just stop there, it says to, “obey our parents IN THE LORD.” What is the difference between obeying our parents and obeying our parents in the Lord?
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CRUX Jr. High Announcements- October 9, 2011

CRUX Sunday- Relate: Family

Pastor Jon continues in our series titled, “Relate” with a message on families. There is also a time of question and answer afterwards as well.

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CRUX Daily: Want to Live Long? Obey.

Read: Exodus 20:12 & Ephesians 6:1-3

Reflect: What does it mean to “honor your father and mother?” What do you do that dishonors your parents? Think of 3 ways you can honor your parents better.

Request (Prayer): Father, help me to be obedient to Your commandments and to honor my parents better.

I don’t know about you, but when I was in Jr. High, I put my parents through a lot. I made their job as parents a lot harder than it should have been. Why? Because I thought I knew it all, I thought I always had the right answer, and the right answer is that, I was wrong.
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CRUX Daily: Examine Your Friends

Read: Proverbs 18:24

Reflect: Good friends choose and pursue each other. Think about the friends you have now. Are you friends because you go to the same church or school? What would happen if either of you moved or stopped going to the same church or school?

Request (Prayer): God, show me how to pursue and choose my friends wisely.

The friends we have, play a very important role in our life. They share ideas with us, help us when we are dealing with something, and they are always there when we need them. Some may say, “a dog is a man’s best friend,” but I’m convinced the best friend is the one who stays with you through the thick and thin, until the very end. A true friend is someone who will be there for any and every little thing that is important to you. This model can both be said of the friends we should have and also of the friend that we should be.
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