God Is With You
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;…
Strength in Weakness
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore…
New Mercies Every Morning
What’s the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning? For most of us, the first…
Don’t Believe in Yourself: The Subtle Pride That Lies Inside
One of the most dangerous qualities of pride is that it sneaks into places in our hearts where other sins…
Check Your Attitude
“But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person” (Matthew [15:18], ESV). The world is…
Life Is Hard, But God Is Good
Life is hard. No matter who we are, we all experience difficulty. To be sure, the degree of life’s severity…
Lord, Keep Me from Wasting My Life
Becoming diligent is hard work, but diligence is not synonymous with working hard. I know from personal experience one can…
How a Heavy Heart Gives Thanks
We are, for the most part, troubled people. We are troubled within, and troubled without. We are troubled in our…
Lay Aside the Weight of Pride
Many of the burdens I bear in life are made far heavier by adding on top of them an oversized…
Unless God Works, We Work in Vain
Understanding the relationship between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility used to be simply an intellectual pursuit for me — just…
Running Fool
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence (Psalm 139:7, ESV)? To hear us justify…
Now Serving
I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by…
God Is Merciful Not to Tell Us Everything
When God chooses not to tell us everything, he shows us more mercy than we realize. On the Mount of…
Talk to God About Your Anxiety
Anxiety is a species of fear. It’s the paralyzing fear of “what if.” It’s the fear that something we dread…
God Will Clothe Your Weakness with Power
Too many Christians live daily with literally no sense of the spiritual energy and potential residing in us. We’re far…
Lay Aside the Weight of Tomorrow’s Trouble
Fear for tomorrow kills our faith for today. So, having faith for today often means killing fear for tomorrow.
Your First Breath After Death
Think about your first breath after death. That moment has everything to do with this one (and every moment between…
The Haunted Hayride of Human Approval
If we are always concerned with what people think about us, we will always be reluctant to tell them about…
The Day of The Lord Will Soon Commence
We are living in the last days, the rulership of man will soon come to an end and the day…
God Can Make All Things New
Today is a new day. Yesterday is gone, what's done is done. Today you can begin again. God can make…