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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Some people assume spiritual attack means they did something wrong.But often, it means the opposite. Jesus said: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy."John 10:10 The t...
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...
Most people try to obey God by pushing themselves harder with sheer discipline and effort. But the truth is different: "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments...
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...
There is a difference between knowing what the Bible says and knowing who the Bible is talking to. Early in His ministry, Jesus sent His disciples out with a specific instruction: "Do not go into 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...
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...
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...
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...
We often assume that being in the right place at the right time feels easy. We imagine doors opening automatically and everything falling into place. But sometimes, a divine appointment looks a lot li...
There's a reason God calls His presence a "house."It's not just a place.It's a covering. Jesus said: "In My Father's house are many rooms." John 14:2 They are not rooms for hiding. They are rooms for...
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...
