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Death Is Behind You
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...
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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...
In 1535, Miles Coverdale printed the first complete English Bible. In his preface he gave readers one rule for reading it: "It shall greatly help thee to understand Scripture if thou mark not only wha...
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...
A man tells you an angel appeared to him. He says the angel gave him the keys to overcoming death in these last days. Should you believe him? No. Not because angels are unreal. They are real. But God...
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...
We spend so much of life caring for what we can see: houses, cars, savings, and possessions that feel solid simply because they sit in front of us. Paul says in 2 Corinthians: "For the things which ar...
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...
Jesus did not die to redeem fallen angels or take on the nature of heavenly beings. He focused His help directly on you. "For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of...
Most of us go through our days as if life is a cycle of work, errands, and the occasional holiday.But God has something different planned for you. You carry a destiny that is older than your birth and...
Many believers live their lives as if they are camping at the foot of the wrong mountain. The Bible contrasts two spiritual locations: Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. Mount Sinai is where God gave the law...
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...
We often define sin as breaking rules or committing bad acts. But the Bible defines sin as falling short of the glory of God. It is a loss of status and environment. Therefore, salvation does more tha...
Think about what creation cost God. He made light with a sentence. "Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light." Genesis 1:3 (NKJV) Stars, oceans, mountains, galaxies, all of it came the...
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...
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...
Before Jesus healed a single sick person, He stood in the Jordan River. He had not turned water into wine. He had not fed thousands or preached a sermon to the crowds. He had performed zero miracles....
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...