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When a believer first hears that he is dead to the law, a familiar compromise shows up. It sounds like this: "Yes, dead to the ceremonial law. The lambs, the feasts, the priestly washings. But surely...

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...

Israel crossed water on dry ground twice. The first time was the Red Sea. The second time, forty years later, was the Jordan River. Same God and same people. Same miracle: the water stood up, and the...

We live in an age of information overload. We listen to sermons and read devotionals every week. Yet we often struggle to remember what we learned. Most of what we hear slips away within days. Hearing...

Nobody argues with a fig tree about its fruit. You look at the branch, you see what hangs there, and you know what kind of tree it is. Paul uses the same test in Romans 7. He does not ask what you bel...

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...

Law is demand. Grace is supply. Imagine a parent who only places demands on their child: "Why can't you be better? Why are you angry? You need to change. You need to stop." That is the voice of the La...

One of the last sights Jesus saw from the cross was soldiers gambling for His clothing. "They said therefore among themselves, 'Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,' that the S...

Leviticus opens with five offerings. Israel brought all five to the same altar, and the same fire consumed them. Yet God attaches the phrase "a sweet aroma" to only three. The last two, the sin offeri...

Paul had the best religious résumé of his generation. Circumcised on the eighth day. A Pharisee. Blameless by the standard of the law. Then he threw it all away. Why would a man discard credentials li...

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...

Legalistic preaching relies on pressure and threat. It assumes that demands produce obedience. Human nature proves otherwise. External rules often provoke rebellion rather than submission. God transfo...

When Jesus walked into Jairus' home to raise the girl from the dead, He brought only three disciples: Peter, James, and John. Their names reveal a message. Peter (Πέτρος): "s...

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...

Jeremiah's sentence has a second half that people often miss. "Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD Go...

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...

There are two honest ways to read the Bible, and most people only own one of them. The first is close work. You take a single verse and stay there. You read it in the morning and turn it over at lunch...

Jeremiah lived under pressure. His nation was collapsing. His friends had turned on him. In the middle of that, he tells us what kept him upright. "Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word...