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Paul Threw Away His Résumé
Paul had the best religious résumé of his generation. Circumcised on the eighth day. A Pharisee. Blameless by the standard of the law. Then he threw it all away. Why would a man discard credentials li...
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The Enemy is Not All-Knowing
We often give the devil too much credit. We assume he knows our thoughts and God's specific plans for us. He doesn't. The enemy is not the opposite of God. God is omniscient (all-knowing); the enemy i...
What Does the Bible Say About Burnout? Permission to Rest
A prophet called down fire from heaven, won a national showdown against 450 false prophets, and outran a king's chariot. The next day, he asked God to let him die. That is burnout. Not a lack of talen...
What Does the Bible Say About Self-Worth? Find Your Value in Christ
A job title can change in one meeting. A relationship can end in one conversation, and an entire audience can vanish overnight. If your self-worth depends on any of these, it sits on a foundation that...
What Does Shalom Mean? The Biblical Vision of Wholeness and Peace
Most people translate shalom as "peace." That is like translating the word "home" as "a building." Technically correct. Still incomplete. Shalom is one of the richest words in the Hebrew Bible. It app...
Your Mind Is Not Left Out
Most of us talk about salvation of the spirit and healing of the body.But with the mind, we accept decline as normal, as if God left that part untouched. Yet Scripture says something specifically abou...
What Does Charis Mean? The Greek Word That Changes Everything About Grace
Most people define grace as "unmerited favor." That is not wrong. But it is incomplete, like a tourist who visits Rome, sees a single fountain, and calls it the whole city. The Greek word behind "grac...
What Does the Bible Say About Forgiveness? How Grace Sets You Free
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...
The Mind God Intended
When God created humanity, He formed the mind without decay, confusion, or decline.Clarity was normal.Sharpness and peace were normal. It was only after the fall that the mind became vulnerable.Confus...
The Enemy Isn’t After What You Don’t Have
The enemy doesn't fight you over potential blessings.He fights you over existing ones. In Eden, the serpent did not tempt Eve with something she lacked. He attacked what she already had. Scripture say...
Why Your Work Doesn’t Own You
In Eden, after the fall, God said to Adam, "By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Genesis 3:19) . Sweat became a picture of painful toil: working for survival and living as if everything dep...