church – Rodney Knous

Rekindling Your Faith: How to Recognize and Overcome Spiritual Lukewarmness

rodney — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:08:35 +0000

How do you know when your faith has cooled down? When what used to be passion is now just “meh”? It’s not that you’ve walked away or become rebellious—you still show up, know the words, and believe the right things—but you’re no longer moved. The emotional connection during worship is gone. You’re not hungry for …

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Faithful in Small Things: The Power of Patient Endurance

rodney — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:07:34 +0000

Of all seven churches addressed in Revelation, only two received no correction from Jesus – Smyrna and Philadelphia. While the others faced rebuke, confrontation, and warnings, Philadelphia stands out as the faithful church that Jesus commends rather than corrects. The beautiful irony? Philadelphia wasn’t the strongest, biggest, or most impressive church. By worldly standards, they …

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Wake Up: Finding Spiritual Life When You’re Just Going Through the Motions

rodney — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:06:33 +0000

Have you ever looked better on the outside than you felt on the inside? Perhaps at work, you projected confidence while barely keeping up. Maybe in relationships, people saw a happy couple when you were just going through the motions. Or in your faith, your social media might be filled with #blessed posts while inside …

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Confronting What We Tolerate: Lessons from the Church of Thyatira

rodney — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:05:42 +0000

The church of Thyatira presents us with a challenging question: Have you ever been afraid to speak the truth because you didn’t want to hurt someone you love? Or have you hesitated to confront something that doesn’t feel right because you don’t want to be “that person” – the one stirring the pot, ruining the …

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Standing Firm in a Compromising World: Lessons from Pergamum

rodney — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:04:29 +0000

Have you ever felt that holding onto your convictions has made you the odd one out? Perhaps you’ve walked into a room and thought, “I believe differently, and I’m afraid that if I speak up, it’s going to cost me something.” Maybe it was at work when your team wanted to go in a direction …

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Two Questions for Churches

rodney — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:09:03 +0000

There’s a movie from 1999 called “Blast from the Past” starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone that is a good illustration of this question. Fraser plays a man named Adam Webber who was born and raised in a bomb shelter. His mad-scientist of a father locked them in because he thought there was a nuclear …

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Can Churches Have Quality and Quantity?

rodney — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:33:42 +0000

In our current context, the small churches outnumber the large churches in a ratio of about 60 to 1. You can imagine how heated the discussions get in the community when a larger church’s motives are questioned in regards to their latest event, the style of worship, or the content of the sermon. The smaller …

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