Search Results

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...

A young man lies in bed at one in the morning with his phone six inches from his face. He scrolls past a girl on a beach, a friend's new car, a stranger's apartment in a city he has never visited. He...

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...

Israel crossed water on dry ground twice. The first time was the Red Sea. The second time, forty years later, was the Jordan River. Same God and same people. Same miracle: the water stood up, and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Genesis 5 looks like a dry list of names and numbers. It records ten generations from Adam to Noah. Most readers skim this chapter to reach the story of the flood. God hid a message in this genealogy....

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...

The Greek language has four words for love. English has one. That single fact has caused more confusion about God than almost any theological debate in history. When a husband says "I love you" to his...

Many believers spend a lot of energy studying what's wrong with them.Lab reports.Symptoms.Pain levels.Google searches and ChatGPT that only make everything scarier. Abraham lived differently. "And not...

Humanity took the Son of God and nailed Him to a wooden cross. That was our response to His love and His miracles. We rejected Him. But God did not respond with vengeance. He did not destroy the world...

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 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 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...