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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...

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...

Possession usually implies a struggle. We think of "taking ground" as a series of battles where we fight to earn what we hope to keep. But when God spoke to Joshua about the Promised Land, He used a t...

In Galilee in the time of Jesus, a marriage started with two fathers at a table. They agreed on the match. The young man and the young woman were betrothed, and from that day she was his. A betrothal...

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...

Most of us have no issue believing God can. It is believing God will, and believing it now. But Jesus never placed salvation into the distant future.He stepped into people's present moments. To the wo...

Read a promise in the wrong tense and you will file it in the wrong drawer. Many believers do this with Romans 8:11. They read it, feel a moment of hope, and then push the whole promise into the futur...

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...

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...

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...

Many believers spend a lot of energy studying what's wrong with them.Lab reports.Symptoms.Pain levels.Google searches and ChatGPT that only make everything scarier. Abraham lived differently. "And not...

A lack of hope affects the physical body and the mind. When you lose hope, you wake up tired. You feel a sense of despondency. You look at your work and your family, and you see only bleakness. This s...

Many readers treat the Old Testament simply as a historical book of heavy laws. This method produces confusion and fear. Accurate interpretation requires you to translate the Old Testament into a reve...

In Genesis 24, Abraham sends his unnamed servant to find a bride for his son, Isaac. This historical account is a picture of the Holy Spirit's work today. For two thousand years, the Holy Spirit has b...

When sickness strikes, many people question themselves."What did I do wrong?""Is God disappointed in me?" But Jesus describes sickness in a different way. When He healed the man with dropsy, He asked:...

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...

We often view our struggles and our successes on the same timeline, as if they carry equal weight. But the Bible suggests a different geometry for our lives. There is a distinction between the "evil d...

We fear death because we view it as an end. We picture a cold room and a stopped heart. But Scripture uses a different image. It compares our physical body to a temporary tent. "For we know that if ou...