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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...
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...
Paul repeats himself in 1 Thessalonians 4. Within three verses, he writes the same phrase twice: "alive and remain." Repetition in Scripture is not sloppy writing. It is emphasis. When God says someth...
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...
Paul gives one reason why many believers were weak, sick, and even dying. "For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep."1 Corinthians 11:30 The Greek word translated reason is sin...
We have a problem with the word "hope." In modern English, hope is a flimsy wish. We say, "I hope it doesn't rain," or "I hope I get the job." It implies uncertainty. It suggests that the outcome is u...
Paul prayed for the believers in Ephesus. He asked God to give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation, explaining that this wisdom comes when the eyes of your understanding are enlightened. In the Gre...
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...
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...
The world is moving faster than ever, yet we feel more constricted than before. When crisis hits, our natural instinct is to accelerate: to work harder and solve the problem with sheer activity. But J...
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...
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...
A changing of the guard happened the moment Jesus was brought into the temple as a baby. An old man named Simeon was there. He had been waiting his whole life for the consolation of Israel. Simeon rep...
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. We live in a world where human systems and economies are trembling. The Scripture says that God will shake the earth and the heavens so that "the things w...
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...
Many Christians avoid the Old Testament. They read about judgments and curses, and they feel afraid. They worry that God will punish them for their failures. Read the Old Covenant through the lens of...
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...
The book of Ephesians has a very specific architecture. The first three chapters tell you what you have. The last three chapters tell you what to do. The order matters. You are never told to "walk wor...
Holiness has a branding problem. We have come to associate holiness with a "holier-than-thou" attitude: a cold, distant judgment of others. We imagine someone standing on a pedestal, looking down at t...
