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Most people translate shalom as "peace." That is like translating the word "home" as "a building." Technically correct. Deeply incomplete. Shalom is one of the richest words in the Hebrew Bible. It ap...
Guilt hides.Fear delays.Faith moves forward. When Peter realized it was Jesus standing on the shore, he didn't wait for the boat. “He plunged into the sea.” John 21:7 That detail matters. If Peter had...
When Adam fell, something entered the world -a divine sentence against sin.A brokenness that touched bodies, minds, and creation itself. Paul says: "...when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord...
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...
Most people spend their entire lives trying to become someone. The gospel says you already are. You did not receive a project at salvation. You received a new identity. God did not hand you a to-do li...
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...
The gospel purifies the heart. People try to change from the outside in.God changes us from the inside out. You can scrub habits, adjust behavior, and manage impulses,but purity begins in a place only...
Most people think guilt leads to change.But guilt rarely produces freedom - it produces cycles. Even mental-health experts say the same:Guilt sits at the root of addiction. This is why: "For sin shall...
Every believer lives under one of two spiritual laws - not by effort, but by awareness. Paul describes both: "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and dea...
There is a city called Jericho. Historically, it was known as the city of the curse. Jesus walked right into the middle of it. The crowd was thick that day, buzzing with noise and judgment. They were...
In the Old Testament, there is an offering:אָשָׁם - "asham," the guilt offering. It wasn't only about forgiveness.It required restoration - full value plus 20% (Leviticus 6:5). God designed it that wa...
Paul's question- "How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?" (Romans 6:2) -isn't a question. It's a reminder. To answer it, you must understand how Christ died to sin. Jesus was never under...
"Then I restored that which I took not away."Psalm 69:4 Jesus quoted this verse in the Upper Room (John 15:25), making it clear -this was about Him. He didn't steal your peace.He didn't cause your los...
The Psalmist showed us 2 things on God's heart. First: forgiveness.Second: healing. "Who forgives all your iniquities;Who heals all your diseases."Psalm 103:3 Healing is not an optional extra.Not a sp...
There's a difference between knowing you're righteous and living like you're righteous. God calls righteousness a gift (Romans 5:17).But even a gift can sit unopened if you don't trust the giver. Some...
Many believers wonder why restoration seems slow, delayed, or distant.But the Bible tells us that: Restoration begins where guilt ends. Leviticus shows that whenever guilt was acknowledged and transfe...
In God's hands, failure is never final -it's fertile. Under the guilt offering (Leviticus 6), anything lost through sin had to be restored full value + 20%. God didn't design this to encourage sin.He...