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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...
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...
We often define sin as breaking rules or committing bad acts. But the Bible defines sin as falling short of the glory of God. It is a loss of status and environment. Therefore, salvation does more tha...
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...
God is all-powerful and all-knowing. But as God, He had never experienced hunger or human betrayal from a human perspective. So He became a man. Jesus felt the weight of physical limitations. He knew...
Some believers wonder if Isaiah 53 speaks only of "spiritual" healing.Others wonder if it covers only certain types of diseases. Isaiah writes: "Surely He has borne our griefsand carried our sorrows."...
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...
Nature is not just scenery. According to Scripture, creation is alive and suffering. The earth is groaning under the weight of the fall. It was subjected to futility, not because it wanted to be, but...
There is a word in the Hebrew Bible that no single English word can translate. Translators have tried "mercy," "lovingkindness," "steadfast love," "loyalty," and "faithfulness." Every attempt captures...
There is a pervasive myth that the Christian life is supposed to be hard. We equate struggle with holiness. We think if we aren't suffering or white-knuckling our way through life, we aren't doing it...
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...
If you've ever wondered what God is really like, Jesus made it plain: "He who has seen Me has seen the Father."John 14:9 There is no guesswork in that answer, and no contradiction. When Jesus touched...
When Israel entered a place called Rephidim, meaning "resting places," Amalek came and attacked (Exodus 17:8). The name Amalek comes from a root word amal עמל meaning toil, weariness, painful labor. T...
In Eden, after the fall, God said to Adam, "By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Genesis 3:19) . Sweat became a picture of painful toil: working for survival and living as if everything dep...
Before God spoke, Genesis records the earth's earliest condition: "Without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." (Genesis 1:2) The earth was in disorder and turbulence, without for...
Abraham didn't become the "father of many" by psyching himself up.God kept giving him new images until his inner world changed. Scripture calls us to replace destructive images with God's pictures of...
Not every vision is from God.The enemy can paint images too: subtle impressions, fearful pictures, or flattering fantasies.But Scripture shows us how different they are when we slow down long enough t...
Jesus didn't come to offer a worldly peace.He offered His own. "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you... Let not your heart be troubled" (John 14:27) . Isaiah called Him the Prince of Peace(I...
