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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...
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...
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...
When Jesus walked into Jairus' home to raise the girl from the dead, He brought only three disciples: Peter, James, and John. Their names reveal a message. Peter (Πέτρος): "s...
A man stands at the airport gate and cannot board the plane. He says he is afraid to fly. He is not. The plane does not frighten him. The crash does. Trace the fear down to its root and you find one t...
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...
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....
A doctor can prescribe medication for your panic attacks. A therapist can teach you to reframe your thoughts. But the Bible does something neither one can do: it tells you where fear came from, who de...
Faith doesn't ignore failure.It simply refuses to stare at it. Peter knew exactly what he had done.He remembered the fire, the denial, and the rooster. But when Jesus appeared, Peter didn't replay the...
Many people view grace as God simply feeling sorry for us. They think God looks at our mistakes, sighs, and decides to let us off the hook. But God is a perfect judge. A perfect judge cannot let a cri...
The law asks, "What did you do?"Grace asks, "Who are you with?" If Peter had been led by law, he would have stayed in the boat.The law would remind him of denial, failure, and broken promises. But gra...
Truth without love destroys. Love without truth deceives. Jesus mastered the art of holding both. Consider His interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. She was an outcast, living in a complex...
We often think of deliverance as a violent struggle of willpower. We try to grit our teeth and resist the craving for one more day. But willpower alone rarely breaks the flesh. "Walk in the Spirit, an...
The law tells you what to do. Grace tells you what has been done. One system demands from you. The other supplies for you. And the Bible is very clear about which one you live under today. Most Christ...
Imagine you owe a friend $10,000. You promised to pay by a certain date, but the date came and went, and you didn't have the money. What happens next? Every time you see that friend, you feel a pang i...
You cannot live on two mountains at the same time. Hebrews 12 describes Mount Sinai, where God gave the Law. It was a place of blackness, darkness, and tempest. It burned with fire. If even an animal...
Why do we sin? Why do we find ourselves trapped in habits or behaviors we hate? We often think the problem is a lack of willpower. We assume we are not trying hard enough. But Peter says the root caus...
Most of us have a room in the heart we'd rather keep closed.A place we don't want examined. David understood this too. He brought almost everything to God: his fears, anger, injustice, disappointment,...
It's quite a relief when I realised that I do not have to plan an escape route, I'm only asked to trust the One who already is the escape. Paul writes, "But with the temptation will also make the way...
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...
