“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24 No one else can live the life you’re building and you can’t live the life anyone else is building; but we’re all building. The[...]
“See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” 1 John 3:1 Kids today are bombarded with messages about their[...]
“Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” Revelation 3:17 We tend to confuse having a comfortable life with being blessed by God. But health[...]
“The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome” 2 Timothy 2:24 It seems like everyone wants to have an argument these days. As believers, conversations with lost family members can become contentious. We even argue with one another over interpretations of Scripture and how church should operate. But followers of[...]
A recent headline from Fox News suggests the unraveling of Christianity. It reads, “Marriage collapse, absent fathers ‘unraveling’ Christianity in growing US crisis.” The subtitle says, “Churchgoers in their 30s who never married ranked the loneliest group in new survey.” There’s a lot to unpack in this headline but my first[...]
“But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who…teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality.” Revelation 2:20 These days, tolerance is often taught alongside love, mercy, and forgiveness. But when Jesus reprimanded the church at Thyatira, it wasn’t for being intolerant but tolerant. So, should Christians[...]
“I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.” 2 Timothy 1:12 Many people today are unashamed for doing wrong, while shaming Christians for doing right. Why does the world play the[...]
“Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44 We tend to see a person who lies to us or about us as the enemy, but the real enemy is Satan. He is the instigator behind[...]
“‘But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins’—He said to the paralytic, ‘I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.’” Mark 2:10-11 It’s human nature to focus on our physical needs. Our attention gets pulled[...]