• In spending this money, am I acting as if I owned it, or am I acting as the Lord’s trustee? • What Scripture requires me to spend this money in this way? • Can I offer up this purchase as a sacrific...
Countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don’t have in order to underwrite a once in a lifetime opportunity. God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means tur...
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. —Charles Spurgeon
It’s possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God’s approval and reward.
Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you tal...
In the Bible, Jesus says more than anyone else about Hell. He refers to it as a literal place and describes it in graphic terms. Jesus taught that in Hell the wicked suffer terribly, are fully conscio...
Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion (2 Corinthians 9:11).
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted (Matthew 23:12).
What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is.
The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself...
The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory.
The Spirit’s work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin...
Real gold fears no fire.
God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.
For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
After his wife died, in great pain C. S. Lewis realized, If I had really cared, as I thought I did, about the sorrows of the world, I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came.3 Our...
When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.
When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.
What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to com...