Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what...
Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.
One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accompl...
Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?
Nobody is left more wanting than the one who did only what he wanted.
My name is Pride. I am a cheater. I cheat you of your God-given destiny . . . because you demand your own way. I cheat you of contentment . . . because you deserve better than this. I cheat you of kno...
May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. 1 Thessalonians 5:23
Lord, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our work for us. Isaiah 26:12
Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance the race that lies before us. Hebrews 12:1
Jesus Christ graced earth’s guilty sod to offer Himself as the perfect sacrifice and fulfill every requirement of the Law. He shed His blood on an altar constructed of two pieces of wood and fashioned...
If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all. Isaiah 7:9
Hebrews 4:12–16: For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power—making it active, operative, energizing and effective; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line...
Hebrews 3:19 supplies the one-word explanation: So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. Unbelief. Oh, they believed in God. Their oversight was that they simply didn’t b...
He gives us a sudden splash of happiness here and there so we can wet our toes in what we'll be swimming in for eternity.
God's will is always best even when we cannot imagine how. Surrendering to His will does not mean you lose. Ultimately, it means you win. Keep hanging on to that rope and let Him pull you over to His...
God is far too faithful to allow the prodigal life to be cost-free.
February 18 The peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 I decided to bring home the impact of this passage by paraphrasing i...
Christ's vehement frustration with the church of Laodicea was that she'd be of some use! The last thing I want to tout is a works-centered faith, but we have been called to faith-centered works. Chris...
Christ isn't asking us to believe in our ability to exercise unwavering faith. He is asking us to believe that he is able.
Choose for yourselves today the one you will worship. Joshua 24:15