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Most Christians know the word "saved." Fewer know that the Greek word behind it, sozo, also means "healed," "delivered," "made whole," and "preserved." One word carries the entire package. That matter...
You failed again. And the first thought that came was not about the failure itself. It was about God. "He must be so disappointed in me." That sentence sits in the chest of almost every believer at so...
Seventy-four times, the Bible inserts a word that most readers skip. It sits at the end of a verse, often in parentheses, and most people treat it like a footnote. But what if that small word is the m...
Faith is not a feeling you try to stir up.Faith is the currency of heaven and an alignment: believing in the heart and speaking with the mouth. Paul says: "The word is near you, in your mouth and in y...
Elijah called down fire from heaven on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, he sat under a tree and asked God to let him die. That is not a story about weak faith. That is a story about a real prophet in a real b...
A courtroom and a cross say the same thing: the debt has been paid. The difference is that the cross paid it for everyone who will ever believe, two thousand years before they were born. Forgiveness i...
A psychiatric textbook and a Gospel say the same thing: live in the present moment. The difference is that the Gospel said it two thousand years earlier. Anxiety is not new. It is not a modern conditi...
When God saw darkness, He didn't analyze or describe it. He spoke into it: "Then God said, 'Let there be light.'"Genesis 1:3 You're made in His image.Paul points to how that image works in faith: "I b...
I often see people around me saying:"I'm getting old.""My memory is slipping.""I'm so forgetful these days." The Bible says our words are a serious matter: "Death and life are in the power of the tong...
Let's talk about confession. I heard this saying that we need to confess our sins to get forgiven.But the Bible teaches believers to confess because they are forgiven. John writes, "If we confess our...
It is easy to think:"Good week = God is pleased.Bad week = God is distant." Scripture says: "God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."Romans 5:8 If...
