“Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” Psalm 51:2 Confessing sin isn’t informing God of something He doesn’t know. We cannot hide what we think, say, or do from the Lord. So, if God already knows our sins, why confess them? Confession isn’t a[...]
Like many American families, my family gets excited about summer. My wife, Stacey, loves the long, hot days so much that she claims to be solar powered! Our family always enjoys being together near the water; either at the lake or at the beach. Even though we've done both of[...]
No doubt, we’re all tired of the phrase, “in these challenging times.” It’s okay to grow weary of the words, as long as we don’t grow weary in the work. Galatians 6:9 reminds us to, “not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do[...]
“Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.” Psalm 51:1 Every believer struggles with sin because we still have a sin nature. So, how does God respond when we sin? The Lord isn’t like the gods[...]
“And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about?” Judges 6:13 Do you ever wonder, “Why doesn’t God seem to work as powerfully as He did in the past?” That’s what Gideon wondered as well. Like Gideon, we often long for the good old days but[...]
“…if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us?” Judges 6:13 Many people are currently asking the same question Gideon asked in today’s verse. It’s an important question for our generation. It causes us to examine not only what we expect from God, but what He[...]
“All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.” Judges 2:10 Younger generations often receive the blame for moral and cultural decline. But no one age group is[...]
“The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.” Judges 2:7 There’s never been a more powerful statement about a leader than what’s said of Joshua in today’s[...]
“…to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of God our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes.” Nehemiah 10:29 Nehemiah 8-10 describes the kind of spiritual renewal our nation needs today. Like these Jewish exiles,[...]