The world perceives the church as an observer and a “yes-man” for government leaders. They don’t take the church seriously in shaping society’s values. This is in direct contrast to Mary, Queen of Scots, who said, “I fear the prayers of John Knox more than I fear all the armies on the face of the…
Trusting God during temptations, crisis and stress reap benefits. By committing to purity, you reap greater learning and competence in your work. By asking God for wisdom and communicating with humility during a crisis, you reap promotion, provision and influence. By refusing to worship idols and trusting God during stressful circumstances, you see unbelievers praise God. …
“All God’s revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God’s truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is…
“When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with a difficulty…. When He is going to do something miraculous, He begins with an impossibility” (Charles Inwood). Would you like to see God do the miraculous in your life? Just observe nature through the rain, clouds and lightning. God commands the powerful lightning to…
“When I find myself racing around, trying to fill a day with mindless tasks or petty entertainment, this is usually the time that God whispers to my heart to draw away with Him and to silence my heart as He wishes to speak” (Katherine Walden). Slow down your life as you trust, long, pray, feed,…
“I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God”…
“In radio or TV terms we are receivers. If we do occasionally transmit signals, we transmit only what we have first received. Everything has been given to us from life in the womb to life in the Spirit. We are beneficiaries, totally blessed because totally loved by God. Sanctity after all is only letting the…
Hezekiah was a godly leader, but failed to equip the next generation. Instead of being concerned about his legacy, his sole focus was enjoying the final years of his life. He did not prepare his son, Manasseh, who succeeded him as king. As a result, Israel struggled without good spiritual leadership to face the Babylonian…
It’s so easy to place our trust in something tangible like wealth, beauty, strength and talent instead of God and His promises. The challenge of living by faith is we can’t see God’s kingdom at work in the natural. We pin our hopes on human resources or pursue our pleasure by relying on them. It…
Tim Keller says the following about idolatry: 1. Anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God,2. Anything you seek to give you what only God can give you.3. A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living4. An…
You discovered the key to happiness as moment-by-moment trust, security, protection and satisfaction in God (Ps. 91). Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, has written in his new book, Flourish, that the goal of well-being has five elements: Positive emotion (of which happiness and life satisfaction are all aspects) Engagement Relationships Meaning…
Have any of you played dominoes? One domino starts a chain reaction knocking down all the others lined up next to each other. God has His own set of dominoes. When Israel left Egypt, they experienced God’s presence after the Egyptian army was defeated at the Red Sea. Beginning with presence, the following dominoes were…