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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...
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...
A lack of hope affects the physical body and the mind. When you lose hope, you wake up tired. You feel a sense of despondency. You look at your work and your family, and you see only bleakness. This s...
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...
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...
The law tells you what to do. Grace tells you what has been done. One system demands from you. The other supplies for you. And the Bible is very clear about which one you live under today. Most Christ...
Some of the most important work God does in us happens in places we never label as spiritual: traffic lights, long queues, slow drivers, and interruptions that break the pace we planned for the day. S...
There is a myth that to be a leader, you must be loud. We confuse aggression with strength and silence with weakness. We see the heroes in movies breaking things to save the day, and we think that is...
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...
We constantly attempt to manufacture our own goodness. We try to present our best selves to the world through intense personal effort. The text of the Bible compares the church to the moon. In literal...
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...
We often associate "divine power" with the spectacular, such as the parting of seas or the falling of fire. But Paul had a different prayer for the believers in Colossae. He prayed that they would be...
The hardest part of faith isn't usually the crisis. It's the clock. We look at the world, and it feels like the timeline is broken. People scoff. They look at the chaos and ask, "Where is He? If God i...
We know God is holy.We know He is righteous.Scripture shows us something more than that. "God is love."1 John 4:8 Love isn't God's mood.It's Him. Love always moves toward people.God gives and restores...
When Paul prayed for believers, he didn't pray for an easier life.He prayed for an empowered heart. Here is his prayer: "...strengthened with all might through His Spirit in the inner man, for all end...
