Moving truth 18 inches from the head to the heart is challenging. If someone’s faith is only intellectual, he or she will be blinded to His work. Mary and Martha had a similar difficulty believing Jesus would raise their brother, Lazarus, from the dead. When something seems hopeless, is your faith active and living so…
Deciding whether to believe in Jesus is the most decision you can ever make. Divisions often arise in families around Jesus. Is He God or just a man? Society seeks to remove any mention of Jesus during Christmas. People instruct us to say, “Happy Holidays,” instead of “Merry Christmas.” City officials remove nativity scenes from…
Joining our local human services federation showed me that people of the world often show more compassion than church people. Public school teachers and staff rival and often exceed the passion of the church in seeing children and their parents prosper. The director of after-school programs in low-income (Title One) schools in my city asked…
Great confusion reigns on how to experience fullness of life in our relationship with God. We have a tendency to be unbalanced or over-emphasize one area like unconditional relationship, following Jesus, understanding instructions, abiding in God’s word and obeying Him instead of letting these ingredients build upon each other as observed in John 8. Unconditional…
People often won’t try new things because change is uncomfortable. It’s easier to stay in the rut of the familiar. To have life, we must desire change. This applies especially to your spiritual life. In John 7, people want to maintain their ungodly lifestyles, keep quiet about Jesus, seek their own will, hide truth that…
To help you walk with God, He begins by showing His power to overcome your inadequacy supernaturally. Once He has your attention, God wants to build your love relationship with Him so you can trust Him in a crisis. Instead of being satisfied with the world’s toys, He wants you to hunger and thirst for…
The following are benefits of drinking water: lose weight, natural remedy for headache, look younger with healthier skin, better productivity at work, better exercise, helps in digestion and constipation, less cramps and sprains, less likely to get sick and feel healthy, relieves fatigue, good mood and reduce risk of cancer. Jesus introduced a new kind…
It’s much easier and seemingly more effective to adopt the world’s way instead of the unpredictable and messy ways of the Spirit. Child raising becomes simplier and straight forward if we get our children to conform instead of the uncertain outcomes in relating to their spirits and uniqueness. Marking things off our to-do list takes…
Are you living in the mask of the false self? Think about the difference between the false and true self. The false self seeks security and significance by what it HAS, what it DOES and what others THINK of it. It finds its identity in the self it portrays to others through performance. One achieves this…
Lee Strobel wrote that there are three great myths about religion:1. All religions are basically the same2. Christianity is simply one philosophy among many3. Christians are narrow-minded to think Jesus is the only way to heaven. Only Jesus provides hope in our sin-stained world. He is the only one who gives life. He is the…