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Stand on a road. You can face one direction at a time. You can face the grave, or you can face the Savior. You cannot face both. Most people live with death in front of them. They treat it as a fixed...

Paul had the best religious résumé of his generation. Circumcised on the eighth day. A Pharisee. Blameless by the standard of the law. Then he threw it all away. Why would a man discard credentials li...

The Apostle Paul did not view death as an unpredictable enemy. Instead of fearing accident or illness, he spoke about his departure from this world as a conscious choice. From a Roman prison cell, Pau...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Before the cross, the temporary shelter was full. The Old Testament believers, like Abraham, David, and Sarah, could not enter heaven because the blood of Jesus had not yet been shed. They waited in a...

The resurrection isn't just a miracle. It is a message. Scripture says: "He was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our being declared righteous."Romans 4:25 His death show...

There is a Chinese proverb: "Don't ask the fish about the water." Why? Because the fish is so immersed in the water, it cannot describe it. It has no point of reference for anything else. We are the s...

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

Failure changes how people see you.But it doesn't change how Jesus sees you. After the resurrection, Peter did something unexpected.He went back to fishing. This was the man who had sworn loyalty and...

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...

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...

The book of Leviticus carries an important picture:a bird couldn't be released until the leper was declared clean. It shows us a shadow of Jesus' redemption work. Christ could not be released from dea...

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 i...

In a normal race, you start at the beginning and run toward the finish line. The prize comes at the end. But the Gospel flips the timeline. Because of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, the...

Most people spend their entire lives trying to become someone. The gospel says you already are. You did not receive a project at salvation. You received a new identity. God did not hand you a to-do li...

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...

There is a strange detail in the story of Lazarus that we often skip over. Jesus receives word that His friend is dying. Lazarus, the one He loves, is sick. You would expect Jesus to drop everything a...