Mental Renewal: Everything God asks of us, He does so to give something good to us or keep some harm from us. Therefore, the shortest distance between us and the life we long for is total obedience to Him. If we believe that, we obey...
Every moment of every day, something in our soul is being fed and something is being starved. Because we live in a media-dominated world, and because much of what comes through that media is an assault on biblical values, then in the course of living...
We're interrupting our "Grow In Your Faith" series to introduce you to my new book that Zondervan just released: Don't Sink Your Own Ship - 20 Spiritual Lessons You Don't Have to Learn the Hard Way. It's a lighthearted look at some spiritual challenges we...
There are two kinds of spiritual battles. One you can bring to an end by resisting. The other you have to resist until God chooses to end it. In today's YouTube video, we'll look at the two kinds of spiritual battles, as well as several...
We can't win a spiritual battle with natural weapons. We have to have spiritual weapons. The Bible describes those weapons using the metaphor of Roman armor. Don't overlook them. They are essential to spiritual success. We'll look at each piece of the spiritual armor in today's...
Just as there are internet, TV, radio and cell phone signals in the room right now that we can't see, hear, touch, taste, or feel, so there may be angels and demons in the room right now that we are not aware of. How can...
Scripture calls on us to give up the immediate (temporal) for the sake of the eventual (eternal). And why not? It is as missionary Jim Elliot famously said, “He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep to get that which he...
"We were born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end." So wrote Benjamin Disraeli. But the key to love is "giving." God has created us so that we "get" by "giving." As we give ourselves to one another, our needs...
We looked in an earlier video at the question of "Is it OK for a Christian to Want to Be happy?" (Video #1, if you missed it.) The reality is, happiness is a byproduct of pursuing God. Choosing God and living by faith is always...
In the process of having the Inner Man gain increasing control over the Outer Man, what do we have to do to grow spiritually? Assuming that spiritual growth doesn't "just happen," what is God's role in the process and what is our role? Looking at...