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The world comes into focus as we discover Christmas. Each year God peels back a layer, rich with newly appreciated memories and formative ones of the present. There’s something uniquely grand about the birthday celebration greed attempts to...

The season is filled with in-your-face advertisements and doorbuster deals, get-it-now and have-to-have lists, and bombardment upon entering any retail establishment from late October on. The oncoming surge creeps into our lives a little earlier...

Like my dad, God is faithful to applaud what He has given us naturally to do. But He doesn’t let us stay there. Like my dad continued to encourage me to keep trying to dive, God never lets us sit idle. Just as soon as we accomplish one impossible...

Thanksgiving is an amazing stature to take in our everyday lives, yet at this time of the year, our attention towards it is piqued. Solomon, often accredited as one of the wisest people to live, wrote generously about thankfulness.

Let's pray now for God to persevere us until the day we are finally and completely made perfect.

Control is tricky. Self-control is vital to life. But too much control in human hands in any regard is dangerous. Godly self-control is continually submitting our behavior over to the Lord and following His wisdom.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 NLTGod never changes, but we do. In our humanity, we age. Though we become wiser internally, our physical bodies start to give way to the pressure of the temporary world we live...

Though the temple curtain was torn at Jesus’ crucifixion, many still live their lives behind a curtain that no longer separates them from God. It’s a guard we put up and a barricade we can break through, but don’t always choose to... Christ made a...

God has not only purposefully placed people in our lives to pour wisdom into our hearts and minds, but He surrounds us with connecting moments when we seek to see Him in His word and throughout our days.

So what does it mean to hear 'Well done good and faithful servant'? It means through faith given to you by grace, you lived the life given to you for God and His glory, not yourself.

“Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” Genesis 6:22 NLTWho Is Noah in the Bible?Noah’s great faith in the Lord is one of the most recognizable stories in the Scripture. The story is recorded in the first book of the Bible, in Genesis....

The Psalms are a poetic book full of songs that sing praise to God in profound and prophetic ways. The Author of all Scripture is the Lord Himself, and we interpret and are able to apply it to our daily lives through the work of the Holy Spirit...

The Sadducees, themselves, are no longer present today. But, the same oppressive principles and false precepts still run rampant in our world. Many times, Scripture warns us to be alert, aware, to turn to God through Christ, guard our hearts, and...

Over the course of our lives, life within the love of the Lord Jesus becomes more obvious. There are certain character traits of God which become obvious to us, and changes in our lives which become obvious to others. The challenge is to remain in...

The author of Hebrews is advising us to hold on tight, not just to the hope we have in Jesus – which is paramount – but also to the people God has faithfully placed in our lives. We were made to hold on tight to each other. God created us to be...

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh?’ So they are no longer...

Palm Sunday lets us see a particular part of Jesus' character. As you pray this prayer, consider what you can learn from this day of Holy Week.

God promises us complete strength and complete peace, not a momentary sigh of relief or a temporary rescue. The Bible tells us to pray about everything. God knows and cares about each hesitation, butterfly in our stomachs, and lump in our throats....

Freedom is a product of the cross. Jesus chose to die on our behalf, breaking chains and forgiving our sins before we set foot on the earth. Free is freedom from sin, not from ignorance (NIV Study). It’s important to know, for example, that...

Let’s pray to not grow weary in welldoing.