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Why do we sin? Why do we find ourselves trapped in habits or behaviors we hate? We often think the problem is a lack of willpower. We assume we just aren't trying hard enough to be good. But Peter sug...

Most people translate shalom as "peace." That is like translating the word "home" as "a building." Technically correct. Deeply incomplete. Shalom is one of the richest words in the Hebrew Bible. It ap...

We often reduce "peace" to a quiet feeling in the chest. While that is part of it, the biblical definition is much more robust. If you ask a Hebrew scholar about the word Shalom (שָׁלוֹם), they will t...

God loves to hide treasures in His Word for those who are hungry enough to search for them. Psalm 91 is often called the Psalm of protection. It promises that no evil will befall us and no plague will...

Social media promises to connect the world and make it smaller. However, the actual result is a documented rise in severe depression. Paul warned Timothy that the last days would feature men who are l...

In the natural world, there is a delay. You sow a seed in October. You wait through the winter. You harvest in April. There are months of silence, months of waiting between the work and the reward. Bu...

A courtroom has already delivered the verdict. The judge has left the bench. The gavel has struck. And yet the defendant rises again to ask, "But are you sure?" That is the picture of a believer who d...

A courtroom and a cross say the same thing: the debt has been paid. The difference is that the cross paid it for everyone who will ever believe — two thousand years before they were born. Forgiveness...

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...

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...

Most of us want more peace and more favor. The natural human instinct is to ask, "What must I do to get it?" We assume the path to increase is increased effort-more discipline, more service, more hour...

Jesus made a distinction that changes how we view death. When He spoke to Martha, He didn't just offer generic comfort. He gave a specific prophecy about two different groups of believers. “Jesus said...

When God saw darkness, He didn't describe it.He didn't comment on it.He didn't analyze it. He spoke into it: "Then God said, 'Let there be light.'"Genesis 1:3 You're made in His image.And Paul points...

There's a tug-of-war inside many believers.The feelings thinking one thing.But the gospel saying another. Paul says, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteo...

There is a book you can hold in your hand that acts as the manufacturer's handbook for your life. It holds the answers, but it also holds something far more potent: Life. The Bible says that all Scrip...

Some believers are more aware of darkness than light.More aware of demons than angels.More aware of threats than promises. But Scripture tells us differently. When the servant trembled at the sight of...

Lust; it makes people objectified and empty. Lust always takes more than it gives.It promises satisfaction, but delivers emptiness.It offers excitement, but leaves a hollow echo. Scripture names the p...

Before God ever said a word, before light cracked the silence, Scripture paints a surprising picture of the earth's earliest condition: "Without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep...

Proverbs says it plainly: "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it" (Proverbs 4:23) . The heart is not fragile-but it is porous.Whatever enters it eventually directs your...

Sometimes you look at someone living in open sin and think:"They look happy. Nothing seems to happen to them." Let me explain what really happens. Solomon wrote, "The way of the transgressor is hard."...