Father, who can separate me from the love of Christ? Can trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things I am more than a conqueror through Him wh...
Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk...
Christ isn't asking us to believe in our ability to exercise unwavering faith. He is asking us to believe that he is able.
Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.
If I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: God got tired. I require lots of work.
With her through an angel that someone nearby could relate. The two women had one important predicament in common—questionable pregnancies, sure to stir up some talk. Elizabeth hadn’t been out of the...
Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred
If peace is the fruit of righteousness (Isa. 32:17), then joy is the wine from the fruit! Joy will ultimately flow from obedience, and few things display God's splendor any more appealingly than joy!
Your Promised Land is the place where God’s personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory.
You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9–10
You and I have each experienced times when we’ve prayed our hardest for two different people to be healed of physical illness. One is delivered on earth; the other is delivered in heaven. We’ve also p...
When we set apart our lives unto Him, He will do wonders with us the likes of which we cannot imagine.
When a scribe asked Jesus in Mark 12:28 which of all God’s commandments was paramount, He reached into the warm, beating heart of the law and raised these words above the rest: This is the most import...
We'll probably never learn to enjoy our storms, but we can learn to enjoy God's presence in the midst of them.
We who have accepted Christ as Savior are part of the most wonderful covenant God ever made with man. God loves us for a singular reason—because He chooses to.
We were created to be full. When we're not filled with the good things Christ came to bring us, we will grasp at anything as a substitute. An unsatisfied soul is an accident waiting to happen.
We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14
We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we’re humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God...
We glorify God to the degree that we externalize the internal existence of the living Christ. A life that glorifies God is not something we suddenly attain. As we spend time in the presence of God, Hi...
We can forget about ourselves because Christ never forgets us. We can afford to be less important to ourselves because we are vastly important to God. We can willingly be crucified with Christ because...