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Many people feel uneasy when they hear the word prosperity. They associate it with greed or superficial teaching. Because of this fear, they limit God's promises to the spiritual domain. They believe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A man stands at the airport gate and cannot board the plane. He says he is afraid to fly. He is not. The plane does not frighten him. The crash does. Trace the fear down to its root and you find one t...
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....
A prophet called down fire from heaven, won a national showdown against 450 false prophets, and outran a king's chariot. The next day, he asked God to let him die. That is burnout. Not a lack of talen...
We often judge a ministry by what we can see: size and public activity.But Scripture tells us that outward appearance never tells the whole story. When Samuel looked at Eliab, he was impressed.God was...
The apostles died for the gospel, not for moral causes. Martyrs don't give their lives for better behavior. They give it for better news. In Acts 4, when the authorities threatened the apostles, it wa...
Christians should be known for what we are for (the gospel), not for what we oppose. It's easy to become defined by reaction.To be known by what you're against rather than what you build. Paul says: "...
Elijah called down fire from heaven on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, he sat under a tree and asked God to let him die. That is not a story about weak faith. That is a story about a real prophet in a real b...
Most people define grace as "unmerited favor." That is not wrong. But it is incomplete, like a tourist who visits Rome, sees a single fountain, and calls it the whole city. The Greek word behind "grac...
Do you think that too much grace will make believers careless?The Bible answers that question. Paul writes, "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."Romans 6:1...
A psychiatric textbook and a Gospel say the same thing: live in the present moment. The difference is that the Gospel said it two thousand years earlier. Anxiety is not new. It is not a modern conditi...
Many believers take Holy Communion with uncertainty:"Am I forgiven?""Is there still a curse on my life?""Is God holding anything against me?" But Jesus settled this once and for all. When He lifted th...
Jesus didn't say,"Do this in remembrance of your failures."Or your struggles. He said, "Do this in remembrance of Me."Luke 22:19 Healing doesn't flow from staring at your weakness.It flows from starin...
Of all the titles Jesus could choose (Messiah, Son of God, King of Israel), He most often called Himself "Son of Man." This wasn't humility.It was prophecy fulfilled. Daniel records: "One like the Son...
The first time Jesus refers to Himself as "Son of Man" in the Gospels is this verse. "The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."Matthew 8:20 The One who created galaxies entered His own world as a s...
