We don’t pretend all is well. But knowing God’s commands to rejoice in him through his all-sufficient power, we meditate on his Word and call on him to impart his gladness to us. In time God exchanges...
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
Reality's such a pain sometimes, you know?
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.
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...
• 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...
The video Homesick for Heaven:
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...
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion (2 Corinthians 9:11).
When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him.
What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is.
We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons
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 fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. —Charles Spurgeon
The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory.