DON'T LOOK FOR HAPPINESS IN THE WRONG PLACES Perhaps the ultimate value in American culture is happiness. That value goes back as far as our Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their...
RESPONDING BIBLICALLY TO DIFFICULT PEOPLE IS ONE OF LIFE'S GREATEST CHALLENGES The second greatest command is: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39). So, it is no small thing to love your neighbor! Yet, all of us have the challenge of loving people who are particularly difficult to love. They...
WE HAVE TO LEARN TO OPERATE ON GOD'S TIME As you likely already know, God’s time is not our time. While God’s time may rarely be faster than our time, typically, it is slower. Often, much slower. God’s Time Often Seems Slow We see this repeatedly throughout Scripture. ...
CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS Here in the United States, Wednesday is our nation’s 242ndbirthday, and as Christians, we have the opportunity to reflect on our birth and life as a nation. As Englishman G. K. Chesterton rightly said, “America is...
WE ARE PERFECTLY SUITED TO GIVE GOD EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS Gary Paulsen is a Minnesotan who, having never run a dog sled race and with only 150 training miles with his dog team in the familiar Minnesota woods, ran the Iditarod dog sled race, 1200...
IS THERE A POINT OF NO RETURN FOR CHRISTIANS WHO SIN? No. You cannot sin so badly that God will not forgive you. Let me give you 3 verses and 2 examples to demonstrate the point. Verses There are passages of Scripture that tell us that God forgives our...
GOD WORKS INCREMENTALLY WITH US, TAKING US FROM SMALL FAITH TO GREATER FAITH I’m fascinated with animal training when I see a parallel between how a trainer works with an animal and how God works with us. The trainer’s goal is to get the animal to trust...
SEEING GOD'S PICTURES IN THE CELEBRATION OF COMMUNION God has created the physical world to picture spiritual truth Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. But only those who see take off their shoes. The rest sit round and pick blackberries. Elizabeth Barrett Browning This...
THE BEST THING WE CAN DO TO HONOR "SACRIFICE" IS TO REMEMBER! (This blog post is coming to you a day early this week, and replaces tomorrow's normal post.) Christians everywhere should always be grateful for the ultimate sacrifice Christ made to secure our spiritual freedom and...
ACHIEVE YOUR GOD-GIVEN POTENTIAL BY RENEWING YOUR MIND Because we are transformed by what we let into our minds (Romans 12:2), our Christian life is won or lost by what we put into our minds (actively) or let into our minds (passively). But, as we saw last week, if...