When you and I are hurting, whether it’s physical or emotional pain, we’re tempted to say, I wonder if God really loves me. I wonder if he cares. We know the answer. He does love us; he does care; he...
When circumstances become difficult and you are in the furnace of testing, remain where God has put you until He tells you to move. Faith moves in the direction of peace and hope, but unbelief moves i...
When He wrote the Bible, God didn’t give us a ponderous theology book divided into sections labeled God, Creation, Man, Sin, and so forth. Instead, He gave us a story, a narrative that begins in etern...
When God used David’s sling, He needed David’s hand to swing it. When God builds a ministry, He needs somebody’s surrendered body to get the job done. You are important to the Lord, so keep your life...
What grace! From heaven to earth, from glory to shame, from Master to servant, from life to death, even the death of the cross
We ought to take time to admire His wisdom in creation. I’ve read that if the proportion of gases in the air were changed ever so slightly, all of us would die. The way God tilted the earth, the way H...
We never stand still in the Christian life; we either move forward in faith or go backward in unbelief.
We must live by faith and not by sight. An elderly lady fell and broke her leg while attending a summer Bible conference. She said to the pastor who visited her, I know the Lord led me to the conferen...
We can’t depend upon our own rule, because we are weak and ignorant. And we can’t depend too much on the rule of others, because they are as weak and ignorant as we are. The only thing we can depend o...
We can learn an important lesson from Peter: Don’t question the Lord’s will or work, and don’t try to change it. He knows what He is doing. Peter had a difficult time accepting Christ’s ministry to hi...
Unclean lips are caused by an unclean heart (Matt. 12:34–35). Isaiah cried out to be cleansed inwardly (Ps. 51:10), and God met his need.
True saving faith results in obedience and godly living, even though there may be occasional falls.
Thoreau put it beautifully when he said that we have improved means to unimproved ends.
There’s no substitute for Christian character. No matter how much talent and training we may have, if we don’t have character, we don’t have anything.
The will of God comes from the heart of God (Ps. 33:11), and He delights to make it known to His children when He knows they are humble and willing to obey. We don’t seek God’s will like customers who...
The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. . . . If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ev...
The secret of Caleb’s life is found in a phrase that’s repeated six times in Scripture: He wholly followed the LORD God of Israel
The end result of all Bible study is worship, and the end result of all worship is service to the God we love.
The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is the book of praises (tehillim).
The Father hears us and knows our needs even before we ask (Matt. 6:8). The Son intercedes for us and knows exactly how we feel in every situation (Rom. 8:34; Heb. 4:14–16). The Holy Spirit intercedes...