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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...

A man opens his phone before he gets out of bed. He scrolls past a war, an earthquake, a new virus, and a video that says a certain leader matches every mark of the Antichrist. By breakfast he is afra...

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...

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...

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...

In 1535, Miles Coverdale printed the first complete English Bible. In his preface he gave readers one rule for reading it: "It shall greatly help thee to understand Scripture if thou mark not only wha...

Picture the last morning in Egypt. Around two to three million people walk out of slavery in a single night. These are brick makers who had felt the whip. Among them are the elderly and small children...

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...

A man tells you an angel appeared to him. He says the angel gave him the keys to overcoming death in these last days. Should you believe him? No. Not because angels are unreal. They are real. But God...

Paul repeats himself in 1 Thessalonians 4. Within three verses, he writes the same phrase twice: "alive and remain." Repetition in Scripture is not sloppy writing. It is emphasis. When God says someth...

We spend so much of life caring for what we can see: houses, cars, savings, and possessions that feel solid simply because they sit in front of us. Paul says in 2 Corinthians: "For the things which ar...

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...

Leviticus opens with five offerings. Israel brought all five to the same altar, and the same fire consumed them. Yet God attaches the phrase "a sweet aroma" to only three. The last two, the sin offeri...

Sometimes the deepest struggle isn't the sickness itself.It's the pressure you place on your own heart. You want to be healed so badly that you begin to strive:Have I confessed enough?Am I believing t...

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...

Joseph could dream at 17, but only later, after resisting temptation, could he interpret dreams. Dreaming is a gift.Interpreting is maturity. Joseph saw visions early in life, but he didn't understand...

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...

At Mount Sinai, Israel asked for a middleman. God came down on the mountain. The people stood at the bottom. And instead of drawing near, they pushed Moses forward. "You speak with us, and we will hea...