A temptation is Satan’s cheap substitute for the real gifts from heaven the Father has given us.
A famous Chinese scholar came to America to lecture and during the course of his tour was met at a busy metropolitan railway station by his university host. If we run quickly, we can catch the next tr...
A faithful parent must discipline his children. It is not enough to teach them and be an example before them; he must also punish them when they rebel and refuse to obey.
What life does to us depends on what life finds in us.
Effective prayer is linked to a dedicated and obedient life.
When we walk by sight, we calculate everything from the human perspective, and this always leads to discouragement; but when we walk by faith, God comes into the equation, and that changes the results...
When we suffer in the will of God and depend on His grace, that suffering has a maturing and purifying effect on our lives. Sadly, we have too many leaders today who proudly display their medals, but...
True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections.[2] However, he opposed emotion for emotion’s sake. He carefully explained the difference between shallow emotionalism and true affections tha...
Thoughts are important, because what you think is what you become. As he thinks in his heart, so is he (Prov. 23:7). Thinking leads to doing, and doing leads to being. Sow a thought and you reap an ac...
The will of God ought to be a source of strength and satisfaction to the children of God, just as if they sat down to a sumptuous feast.
The modern world is also fascinated by innovation but scornful to tradition. Like the Athenians in Paul's day, many people do nothing but get involved in the latest fads (Acts 17:21). People stand in...
Stop pampering yourself. Stop whimpering. Stop asking God to give you toys; ask Him to give you tools and weapons, because there is a Church to build and a battle to fight. It is a marvelous thing to...
Satan was offering them freedom without responsibility, freedom without consequences, and there can be no such thing.
Satan is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44), and human nature is such that many people find it easier to tell lies than the truth.
Praise Him because He is the God of all comfort! The words comfort or consolation (same root word in the Greek) are repeated ten times in 2 Corinthians 1:1–11. We must not think of comfort in terms of...
Paul did not begin by attacking the false teachers and their doctrines. He began by exalting Jesus Christ and showing His preeminence in five areas: the gospel message, redemption, creation, the churc...
Numbers do not determine truth (vv. 12–18). If an entire city turned away from God, that is no reason for us to do so. God will stand with us
No doubt you have heard people say, or perhaps you have said yourself, Christmas is for children. Take a long look at this group standing in the temple and you will never say it again. You have Mary,...
Methods are the changing local applications of unchanging universal principles, and no method should be given the status that belongs only to a principle.
It was bad enough that Judah rebelled against God by trusting Egypt instead of trusting Jehovah, and depending on money instead of on God’s power, but they even went so far as to completely reject the...