For the next twelve hours I will be exposed to the day’s demands. It is now that I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I’m free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love . . . No occasion justifie...
Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts.
El SEÑOR es bueno y hace lo correcto; les muestra el buen camino a los que andan descarriados. Guía a los humildes para que hagan lo correcto; les enseña su camino. SALMOS 25.8–9 (NTV)
Death is God’s way of taking people away from evil. From what kind of evil? An extended disease? An addiction? A dark season of rebellion? We don’t know. But we know that no person lives one day more...
Dear God (if this really is you), I hate the church. I hate religion and everything about it. It seems so obvious that religion causes more problems than it solves. It manipulates and separates people...
David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.
Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God’s goodness. What I did was bad, we acknowledge, but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it. If our understandi...
By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans.
But suppose my daughters had approached me as we often approach God. Hey, Dad, glad you’re home. Here is what I want. More toys. More candy. And can we go to Disneyland this summer? Whoa, I would have...
Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.
Before presenting the grace of God,we must understand the wrath of God.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God (Phil. 4:6).
Ask God to show you specific areas in your life that require his special renewing attention.
A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you’ll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christm...
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves.1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift.
A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would...
You represent a challenge to Satan’s plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs—wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he ca...
You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.
You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are. Remember that the next time you are left bobbing in the wake of someone’s steambo...