When you walk by faith, you will claim all that God has for you, but unbelief is always content to settle for something less than God’s best.
When you follow the Shepherd, the future is your friend, because the Lord is going before you. Live one day at a time, following the Shepherd, and you won’t have to be afraid.
When you find yourself sinking in the quicksand, there is little else you can do but cry to the Lord. Sometimes He allows the quicksand experiences to turn you to Him. Wait for God. Acknowledge that H...
When you feel like quitting or running away, remember that you can’t run away from your troubles and you can’t run away from yourself. The solution is not running away; it’s running to. It’s running t...
When you are in the place of God’s choosing, you don’t ever need to be afraid, for faith and fear cannot dwell in the same heart (Isa. 12:2; Mark 4:40).
When God’s people are obeying God’s will, everything in the universe works for them, even the stars in their courses (Judg. 5:20).
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? (v. 15). The word harmony here is a musical term. We aren’t even playing in the same orchestra with the unsaved! We aren’t following the same conductor...
We seek to do what Jesus would do, the way Jesus would do it, so that he alone gets the glory. Doing so isn’t always easy, but it is necessary; it isn’t always comfortable, but it is Christlike.
Want of trust is at the root of almost all our sins and all our weaknesses, he wrote in that same editorial, and how shall we escape it but by looking to Him and observing His faithfulness. The man wh...
Unless we go back to the cross, we can’t go forward in our Christian life.
True worship is not cheap entertainment; it’s a costly experience.
True saving faith involves the whole personality: the mind is instructed, the emotions are stirred, and the will then acts in obedience to God.
True faith isn’t frightened by threats, impressed by crowds, or swayed by superstitious ceremonies. True faith obeys the Lord and trusts Him to work out the consequences.
To have the mind of Christ means to look at life from the Savior’s point of view, having His values and desires in mind. It means to think God’s thoughts and not think as the world thinks.
To think you’re a leader because you attended a seminar is as dangerous as thinking you’re an athlete because you watched the Olympics on television.
To the Jews, wine was a gift from God and a source of joy (Judg. 9:13; Ps. 104:15). The law did not demand total abstinence, but it did warn against drunkenness (Deut. 21:18–21; Prov. 20:1; 23:20–21,...
To be gripped by the miraculous magnificence of prayer means to be humbled and broken, deeply grateful for the privilege of access into the presence of the Almighty.
Till He comes, we will have to accept the reality of evil in this world and keep praying, Even so, come, Lord Jesus (Rev. 22:20).
Those who make them [idols] will be like them, and so will all who trust in them (see Ps. 115:1–8). We become like the gods that we worship!
There were an estimated sixty million slaves in the Roman Empire, and a slave was looked on as a piece of property, not a person. In loving devotion, Paul had enslaved himself to Christ, to be His ser...