March 24, 2020
For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield. Psalms 5:12 There is an old adage that says, “If anything can go wrong, it probably will.” Perhaps you’ve heard it. Many […]
March 17, 2020
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize […]
March 16, 2020
Favor is God’s “I’m for you” attitude. It is the amazing, undeserved benefit of being His child, yet many believers never taste its fullness. Why not? One reason is that we simply misunderstand His favor. Biblically, favor can be thought […]
September 16, 2019
Along with reading the Bible every day, I always read at least one other book from which I can learn something new. My wife, Jeanie, and I are often in the middle of several books at once, and we like […]
July 15, 2019
When you hear the word ‘wilderness,’ what do you think of? Do you picture yourself walking alone through a dark overgrown forest surrounded by gnarly and fallen trees with the sound of wolves howling in the distance? That is certainly […]
June 5, 2019
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 Before David was ever the King over Israel, he was a nobody. He was a shepherd […]
April 2, 2019
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 As believers, we know that we are not just made up of our physical bodies, […]
March 12, 2019
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV) Have you ever read a part of the Bible that you have read a thousand […]
January 1, 2019
“All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16 Every day there are multiple voices trying to get our attention. Sometimes they are physical voices right […]
December 11, 2018
…to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the […]