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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 a...
Most people try to obey God by pushing themselves harder-more discipline, more effort, more sincerity. But the truth is different: "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His...
Genesis 5 looks like a dry list of names and numbers. It records ten generations from Adam to Noah. Most readers skim this chapter to reach the story of the flood. But God hid a message in this geneal...
There is a difference between loving Jesus and understanding Him. Mary Magdalene loved Jesus deeply. She had been forgiven much. But on resurrection morning, she showed up at the tomb with spices. She...
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 th...
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...
Before Jesus healed a single sick person, He stood in the Jordan River. He had not turned water into wine. He had not multiplied bread to feed the hungry. He had not preached a sermon to the multitude...
There is a common fear that often circulates in church pews. It is the fear that if people feel too secure in their relationship with God, they will become lazy. We worry that if we talk too much abou...
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...
The book of Ephesians has a very specific architecture. The first three chapters tell you what you have. The last three chapters tell you what to do. The order matters. You are never told to "walk wor...
When Jesus corrected His disciples, He didn't say,"Why didn't you pray longer?"or"Why didn't you try harder?" He said: "O you of little faith."Matthew 6:30 Not as a rebuke-more like a sigh of love:"Yo...
We are tripartite beings-spirit, soul, and body. This mirrors the ancient tabernacle: the outer court (the body), the holy place (the soul), and the Holy of Holies (the spirit). Most of our lives are...
Most self-help programs demand willpower. They tell you to make rules, track your habits, and force yourself to change. But the New Covenant offers a different path. Paul describes the process of Chri...
Humanity took the Son of God and nailed Him to a wooden cross. That was our response to His love and His miracles. We rejected Him. But God did not respond with vengeance. He did not destroy the world...
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....
King David understood something specific about his relationship with God. He knew that God loved everyone, but he also believed that God liked him. David writes this perspective clearly in the Psalms:...
We often assume that being in the right place at the right time feels like a gentle breeze. We imagine a red carpet unrolling smoothly before our feet, doors opening automatically, and everything fall...
We spend so much of our lives trying to grow. We worry about our stature, our wisdom, and our future. We try to spin our own security and weave our own reputation. But Jesus points us to a different w...