The human mind is incredible. We can go countless places by way of our mind. If we want to, we can let our mind live in the gutter, as they say. Or we can have a critical spirit toward everyone we meet and know, if we …
It’s not the will of God for Christians to live their life in anxiety (anxiety related to mental health is not included in this post). Why should we live that way when we have God on our side? He always causes us to triumph (2 Corinthians …
Each day, we draw closer to the return of Christ to gather the Church. At His descent from heaven, the dead in Christ will rise. We who are alive in Christ will meet them in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord …
When God calls us to a work, it can be intimidating. He often calls us to things we feel ill-equipped to do. He tends to call us to things that are bigger than we are because our God is a big God. But equally important, God …
Authors have written countless books about how to maximize our life. As I was writing this post, I visited Amazon.com. In the category of books, I searched for the titles of books containing the words “best life.” I saw titles such as “Creating Your Best Life, …
What does it mean to be born again? To answer that question, consider these words from the book of Ezekiel: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out …
Though we have been born again, we are still clothed in a physical body. That means we still have desires in our flesh that aim to please our fleshly desires and not God. So, what’s a Christian to do? In Paul’s letter to the church at …
We attribute Psalm 40 to King David. In it, he boasts about how God brought him out of a horrible pit and set his feet upon a rock. And then he says, “Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the …
“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8, KJV). Accordingly, we need the Word of God to help us bring our thinking and ways in line with God’s. How receptive are you to allowing the Word of …
Jesus taught a parable about the seed and the sower (see Matthew 13:3-8). In summary, a farmer goes about sowing seed. The seeds fall on four kinds of ground. The yield of the seeds is a function of the ground on which they fall. This parable …
