As we become more and more like Christ, we need to remember Matthew 20:28, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” When we live this, our marriages and all of our relationships become what God intended them…
Jesus wants to transform us. He wants to use us as instruments of his kindness and love. He wants us to have life and have it to the full! The great thing is that we can all be transformed and can all be used for His good, and we can all have life to the…
The essence of the Christian faith is our answer to a question we all have to face at one point in our lives. Do we believe these four things about Jesus Christ? Did he really walk the earth and live a sinless life? Was He crucified and did He die on the cross? Was he…
God gave man free will so that man could know what it means to love and be loved! Only love given freely by choice is real love and anything else is only a shadow of what love is supposed to be. The downside of free will is that we can choose disobedience, sin, and choose…
The truth will always be the truth, even if no one believes it! God Himself defines truth and that truth is independent of everything else in this universe… it is unchanging, everlasting, and sets the standard by which everything else is measured! It is our true north and it is our lighthouse in the storms…
Running life’s race is much like a 400-meter hurdle contest. We can be running along just fine, smack dab in the middle of God’s will for us when all of a sudden we encounter and trip over a hurdle that we, ourselves, put there! Our faith falters a bit and we “take back control,” only…
Everyone has a past and everyone has a few skeletons in the closet that we’d rather just forget. However, during those “testimony formation” times, God was preparing us for bigger and better things. Rather than simply leave us in the sinful condition we so eagerly embraced, we suffered consequences that drove us back to Him…
To absolutely believe that God really does know the plans He has for us, plans to prosper us and to give us a hope and a future despite our current circumstances is exactly what Joseph must have done. Despite being sold into slavery, despite imprisonment, and despite being rejected and forgotten, Joseph knew that God…
We simply do not have the capacity to fully understand who God is, what His nature is, or even what ordinary words like holy, righteous, loving, and merciful even mean when used to reference God. We cannot comprehend concepts like infinity and perfection because our ways are not His ways and our thoughts are not…
Winston Churchill was once quoted as saying, “If you’re going through hell, keep going” and having been deeply impacted by WWII, he knew what he was talking about. We each will experience our own “hell” from time to time, and when we do, it’s time to press into God and to lean on Him for…