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Many people feel uneasy when they hear the word prosperity. They associate it with greed or superficial teaching. Because of this fear, they limit God's promises to the spiritual domain. They believe...
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...
Picture the last morning in Egypt. Around two to three million people walk out of slavery in a single night. These are brick makers who had felt the whip. Among them are the elderly and small children...
In Galilee in the time of Jesus, a marriage started with two fathers at a table. They agreed on the match. The young man and the young woman were betrothed, and from that day she was his. A betrothal...
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...
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...
A shadow has no physical substance. The shadow of a dog cannot bite you. The shadow of a weapon cannot cut you. It may look threatening, but it has no power to harm you. Many believers face trials tha...
We often try to make ourselves strong before we approach God. We think we must build up our resources or our intellect to be useful to Him. But God operates on a different principle. He uses what the...
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...
Famine has one job. It empties barns and raises prices. Everyone gets poorer together. That is why three scenes in Genesis stand out. Three men faced famine. All three came through it with more than t...
A cynic examines a beautiful room and points out the dust. The Book of Jeremiah contrasts two types of people. The cursed man is like a dry shrub in the desert. <scripture> "For he shall be like a shr...
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...
There are two honest ways to read the Bible, and most people only own one of them. The first is close work. You take a single verse and stay there. You read it in the morning and turn it over at lunch...
It seems like a noble instinct. The oxen stumbled. The Ark of God was about to fall. Uzzah reached out his hand to steady it.And he died.Why? Was God angry? No. But Uzzah made a fatal error that many...
In the Old Testament, the enemies of Israel waited for the harvest. When the crops grew, the Midianites swept down and stole the food. Gideon had to thresh wheat in a winepress at night just to hide i...
Enoch walked with God for three hundred years. His walk was not a vague feeling. It began with a specific revelation. When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he had a son. God told him to name the boy Me...
The Greek language has four words for love. English has one. That single fact has caused more confusion about God than almost any theological debate in history. When a husband says "I love you" to his...
We often measure success by the numbers on a screen or the hours spent at a desk. We watch the charts day and night until our eyes swell from the strain. We assume that exhaustion is the price of pros...
There are two ways to live your life, and they are represented by two ancient sons. Paul says the story of Abraham's family is more than just history; it is symbolic. It is an allegory (allēgoreō) ἀ&l...
A man gave ten percent of everything he owned to a priest, four centuries before the law of Moses existed. No command. No obligation. No temple. Just a grateful response to the God who delivered him....
