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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...
Enoch walked with God for three hundred years. His walk was not a vague feeling. It began with a specific revelation. When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he had a son. God told him to name the boy Me...
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....
Blood has a voice. In the first murder in history, Cain killed Abel. It was a religious murder. One brother tried to approach God through performance (his own crops) and killed the brother who approac...
Many people view grace as God simply feeling sorry for us. They think God looks at our mistakes, sighs, and decides to let us off the hook. But God is a perfect judge. A perfect judge cannot let a cri...
Most of us have a room in the heart we'd rather keep closed.A place we don't want examined. David understood this too. He brought almost everything to God: his fears, anger, injustice, disappointment,...
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...
When someone wrongs you, the natural instinct is to get even. We want justice, so we exhaust ourselves trying to set things right. But a person who trusts that God is paying attention can set that wor...
A holy God cannot ignore sin.A loving God cannot ignore sinners. Both truths seem to pull in opposite directions until the cross. Paul says, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us" (2 Corinthia...
The Hebrew word for "to see," חָזָה hazah, shares its root with חָזֶה hazeh, the "breast" of the sacrificial animal (Leviticus 7:30-31).That breast was the portion given to the priest. It was a pictur...
Sometimes the hardest thing to believe is the simplest:God is not angry at you. Many believers still live as if God is holding something over their heads. They brace for punishment and assume every se...
