Showing results for: “Gospels”
Found 17 results
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...
We often believe that we must qualify ourselves to receive God's blessings. We think we must resolve our personal issues and confess every sin before we can ask for healing. We treat God's power as a...
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...
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...
The modern church talks constantly about discipleship. We build programs and systems to measure it. We say, "Everyone is a Christian, but not everyone is a disciple," which makes believers feel inferi...
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...
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...
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 has already delivered the verdict. The judge has left the bench. The gavel has struck. And yet the defendant rises again to ask, "But are you sure?" That is the picture of a believer who d...
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...
There is a word in the Hebrew Bible that no single English word can translate. Translators have tried "mercy," "lovingkindness," "steadfast love," "loyalty," and "faithfulness." Every attempt captures...
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...
Whenever sick people come to Jesus,He heals them. Not just a few.Not only the "most deserving." All. Matthew records: "He healed them all."Matthew 12:15 Mark shows the same: "He healed many who were s...
The first time Jesus refers to Himself as "Son of Man" in the Gospels is this verse. "The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."Matthew 8:20 The One who created galaxies entered His own world as a s...
