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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...

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...

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...

Possession usually implies a struggle. We think of "taking ground" as a series of battles where we fight to earn what we hope to keep. But when God spoke to Joshua about the Promised Land, He used a t...

In Galilee in the time of Jesus, a marriage started with two fathers at a table. They agreed on the match. The young man and the young woman were betrothed, and from that day she was his. A betrothal...

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...

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...

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...

We often treat the Bible as a collection of general ideas. We think God inspired the concepts but left the details to human writers. However, the writers of the Bible did not view Scripture this way....

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...

A shadow has no physical substance. The shadow of a dog cannot bite you. The shadow of a weapon cannot cut you. It may look threatening, but it has no power to harm you. Many believers face trials tha...

One of the biggest contrasts I see today between believers and the world is about aging:that the body weakens, memory fades, and nothing can be done about it. But I want to show you three men who illu...

An ancient city lived or died at its gates. Guards stood there. Merchants came and went through them, and an attacking army aimed for them first. Whatever passed through the gates ruled the streets in...

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 ar...

Read a promise in the wrong tense and you will file it in the wrong drawer. Many believers do this with Romans 8:11. They read it, feel a moment of hope, and then push the whole promise into the futur...

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...

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...

We often measure success by the numbers on a screen or the hours spent at a desk. We watch the charts day and night until our eyes swell from the strain. We assume that exhaustion is the price of pros...

Many Christians believe that God limits their lifespan to seventy or eighty years. They base this belief on a verse in Psalm 90. "The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength...

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...