This self-absorbed perspective treats God as a genie who simply exists to serve you in your selfish pursuit of personal fulfillment. But God is not your servant, and if you fall for the idea that life...
The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money. Many have thought, I want to live for God but I also want to earn enough money to live comfortably and retire someday. Retirement i...
Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else.
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.
Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.
While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.
We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happin...
The first thing on Dr. Amen’s master to-do list, the first thing he sees each day, is his gratitude list. Rather than just writing down a few things, he keeps a running tab on what he is grateful for,...
Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
Por lo general, el mayor enemigo para nuestro éxito en el futuro es nuestro éxito en el pasado.
Point to Ponder: If there were no God, and everything was a result of random chance, there would be no purpose to your life. It all starts with God.
It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ, … he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose...
It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God’s Word than in studying it.
If you are in a period of discouragement because you are going through a trial and you are asking yourself, Why is this happening to me? consider this: Never make a major decision when you are depress...
If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to...
Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.
Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through worship, broader through ministry, and larger through evangelism.
Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.