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When a believer first hears that he is dead to the law, a familiar compromise shows up. It sounds like this: "Yes, dead to the ceremonial law. The lambs, the feasts, the priestly washings. But surely...

A man opens his phone before he gets out of bed. He scrolls past a war, an earthquake, a new virus, and a video that says a certain leader matches every mark of the Antichrist. By breakfast he is afra...

A young man lies in bed at one in the morning with his phone six inches from his face. He scrolls past a girl on a beach, a friend's new car, a stranger's apartment in a city he has never visited. He...

Stand on a road. You can face one direction at a time. You can face the grave, or you can face the Savior. You cannot face both. Most people live with death in front of them. They treat it as a fixed...

Saul lost his throne because he feared people. David kept his because he knew he was loved by God. The difference between these two kings is the difference between a life built on human approval and a...

Israel crossed water on dry ground twice. The first time was the Red Sea. The second time, forty years later, was the Jordan River. Same God and same people. Same miracle: the water stood up, and the...

A Bible sits on a shelf in millions of homes. It holds the truth, and it sets no one free. Jesus did not say the truth will set you free. He said something narrower. "And you shall know the truth, and...

Possession usually implies a struggle. We think of "taking ground" as a series of battles where we fight to earn what we hope to keep. But when God spoke to Joshua about the Promised Land, He used a t...

It is the easiest thing in the world to look at your problem. In the wilderness, the Israelites were bitten by venomous snakes. They were in pain. Their wounds were swelling. It was natural to look do...

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...

One of the last sights Jesus saw from the cross was soldiers gambling for His clothing. "They said therefore among themselves, 'Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,' that the S...

Leviticus opens with five offerings. Israel brought all five to the same altar, and the same fire consumed them. Yet God attaches the phrase "a sweet aroma" to only three. The last two, the sin offeri...

Imagine driving on a long road trip in an unfamiliar country. You are tired and looking for your hotel. You keep checking your GPS, worried that you missed a turn. Then you look up and realize the hot...

Your brain will not stop. You lie down at night and a crowd of thoughts shouts over each other. You replay conversations. You rehearse disasters. You solve problems that do not yet exist. And the hard...

Legalistic preaching relies on pressure and threat. It assumes that demands produce obedience. Human nature proves otherwise. External rules often provoke rebellion rather than submission. God transfo...

Most of us go through our days as if life is a cycle of work, errands, and the occasional holiday.But God has something different planned for you. You carry a destiny that is older than your birth and...

You can sit in a room full of people and still feel alone. A crowded office, a full church, a family dinner, and the seat next to you still feels empty. Loneliness is not about the number of people ar...

Genesis 5 looks like a dry list of names and numbers. It records ten generations from Adam to Noah. Most readers skim this chapter to reach the story of the flood. God hid a message in this genealogy....

In ancient warfare, a royal coat marked a man's rank and authority. When David killed Goliath, he stood before the court holding the head of the enemy. Jonathan, the prince of Israel, responded at onc...

Think about what creation cost God. He made light with a sentence. "Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light." Genesis 1:3 (NKJV) Stars, oceans, mountains, galaxies, all of it came the...