Humble Yourself
I want to discuss how to humble yourself so that God may exalt you in due time. When we learn to humble ourselves, people will see more of Jesus and less of us. Otherwise, we get in the way too much....
View ArticleThe Covenant of Healing
Nothing is more poignant and powerful as the names of God. Psalms 8:1 says, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name …” When it says God’s name is excellent, it means we serve an excellent God. His...
View ArticleThe Cross
The cross was rugged — a place of offense where blood was shed. It’s where Christ died for your sins and mine and for the rest of the world. In 1 Corinthians 1:23, Paul says, “But we preach Christ...
View ArticleThe Promise: How to Change the World
Easter is a time for us to recalibrate our hearts. Easter is a time when we get our scales of life zeroed again and learn where we stand in the middle of eternity. We often lose our bearings—our...
View ArticleEncourage Yourself
After a war, David came back to his hometown, only to discover it had been burnt to the ground. The women and the children were captured and destined for slavery. The men, seeing their families gone,...
View ArticleThe Truth About Money
The word “greed” is simply defined as keeping everything we get. When greed begins to obsess or control us, there is no flow through. Even though we do not use certain things, we become greedy and...
View ArticleUnspoken Words
The Bible says to guard two things. The first is, of course, your mouth. “Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips” (Ps. 141:3). He says to keep guard over your mouth, but...
View ArticleRich Toward God
There is a way we can be rich toward God. We can expend the energy of our life in such a way that it brings us a balanced life. In today’s economy, we can try to keep up with the Joneses and think that...
View ArticleFaith at Work
As we develop a faith for our everyday lives, we especially want to extend that to our workplace — where we spend so much time and have such consistent contact with others. We may not realize it, but...
View ArticleHow to Grow in the Stretch
Sometimes, God wants to build our faith like building muscles so God will stretch our faith. Nobody likes to be stretched because there is a tug-of-war of what we should do and what we should not do....
View ArticleThe Gift of Friendship
We live in a world that’s crowded and busy, but lonely. We’re desperate for friends and there’s no better example than Jesus Himself who said, “No longer do I call you slaves … but I have called you...
View ArticleImpetuous Words
All of us have the same problem. Impetuous words — words that are reckless, words that we speak first and think about later, only to have regret and remorse. In order to train our tongues so that we...
View ArticleRelationships That Delight God
God delights to carry out His will through His children. God is looking for children who are in healthy relationship with Him through which He can carry out His will. God could do it all, but He wants...
View ArticleHidden in Plain Sight
“F2F.” Do you know what that means? “Face to face.” There is a new wave of social networking that can cause us to become people who hide in plain sight. In this socially connected world, people are...
View ArticleFaith and Works
How do we get the church out of the church and into the community where God wants it to be? “Dear brothers and sisters, what’s the use of saying you have faith if you don’t prove it by your actions?...
View ArticleFaith in the Making
Faith … it is a word that has been misunderstood, misused, diluted and generalized. Faith has become synonymous to a person’s religious preference. In coming to grips with what is most important, let’s...
View ArticleIf God Asked Us a Question
If God were to ask you a question and the answer to that question would determine your destiny, what would it be? He asked that of Solomon. “… the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God...
View ArticleWhen You Know What’s Right, But Cannot Seem to Do It
Ever had a time when you knew what you were supposed to do … but you just did not do it? Sometimes we know what God is telling us to do, but we have a hard time doing it. And when we intentionally do...
View ArticleCharacteristics of a Great Faith
Today, we are going to talk about two people whom God finds to have the greatest faith. One is a Canaanite woman, of whom He says, “Woman, your faith is great!” And the second person was actually a...
View ArticleThe God That Glitters
Money Talks The way money is used tells a lot about a person. God speaks a lot about money because it is such a temptation to mankind to take our gold and turn it into a god and into a molten calf. We...
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