We loathe worthlessness, and for good reason. We have a primal sense that we exist for something better and, indeed, we do. We are created in the King’s image and created to be with him. But there is...
The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them.
The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One. 1. Review the creation psalms: Psalms 8; 19; 29;...
Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.
The gospel is only available to people who know they are unclean.
Life in the kingdom isn’t easy, at least not when we want to share the throne. But
God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive.
Do you believe that it is impossible for the Holy God to love you and even delight in you? If so, you are believing Satan's lie that God loves you because of what you do. The truth is that he loves yo...
Therefore, we cannot rightly say, My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love. Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin onl...
The circumstances of life do not have the power to turn us away from Jesus or to make us love him more—those are the jurisdiction of the heart.
The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.
Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optim...
Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.
To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our s...
Depressed people avoid people and church commitments, but they can also complain about abject isolation. The answer is to humbly accept your purpose. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are i...
Anxiety asks for more information so it can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. It also asks for more information so it can manage the world apart from God.
Hope will only grow in the ground of humility.
Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.
Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God). The task God sets for us is to need them less and love them more. Instead of loo...
You barely realize what just happened. It is called faith. You just turned in Jesus’ direction and you are listening. You want what he offers.
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