When the fear of the Lord matures in you, Christ becomes irresistible.
Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.
Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn...
Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate.
Scripture is about suffering. It has given comfort to millions. It has spawned hundreds of wonderful books that highlight God’s gentle care and Scripture’s probing insights. You can be assured of this...
We must hate the evil and ungodly assumptions of the world, we must hate our own sinful nature, and we must hate Satan. To accomplish these tasks demands the most powerful resources we have: the Word,...
One reason Christians respond positively to a needs psychology is that it takes people's pain seriously. However, this perspective can actually make pain worse. It compounds pain by suggesting that no...
Regarding other people, our problem is that we need them (for ourselves) more than we love them (for the glory of God).
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...
God does not forgive you based on the quality of your confession or your resolve to be a better person. But you keep thinking otherwise. Your standard is what you would do to someone like yourself, an...
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.
The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don’t limit God’s character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to t...
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;...
Knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really
Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.
Sin is not rational.
The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrou...
Yet weakness—or neediness—is a valuable asset in God’s community. Jesus introduced a new era in which weakness is the new strength. Anything that reminds us that we are dependent on God and other peop...
Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.
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