If the devil had his way, you would have stopped following the Lord a long time ago. What keeps you going? If the wicked world had its way, you would have stopped following the Lord a long time ago. What keeps you going? If the anti-God American government, media and entertainment industry had its way, you would have stopped following the Lord…

How do you identify yourself? Who are you? How does your identity affect your view of life and the world around you? How does your identity impact how you relate to and treat other people? Do you identify yourself based upon your race? Is that who you are? Do you identify yourself based upon your gender? Is that who you are? Do…

How’s your energy level today? Are you feeling peppy and full of life? Do you have a spring in your step? Would you describe yourself as having great vitality? You may read these questions and consider them strictly from a physical standpoint. You may respond through the prism of physical strength, physical energy, physical vitality. However, the above questions are asked from…

Some folks look around at the denominational world today (and often at specific groups) and exclaim, “Wow! It is really something all the ways in which they are doing good and glorifying God.” Let me ask you a question–how do we know that it is “something”? Jesus placed a great emphasis on “abiding in Him,” especially in John 15. He affirmed that…

I could ask, “Do you love Jesus”? But, I think that it has a different ring to it to ask, “Do you agape Jesus?” As humans (and especially Americans) we have equated “love” with an emotion that we feel. Of course, we need to have an emotional affection for Jesus, but that is not the question here, nor is it the word…

To be blessed by God is not a matter of guesswork or some mysterious puzzle to be solved. The New Testament makes it very plain, in passages like James 1:25, how a Christian can be blessed. The Lord promises, “This one will be blessed in what he does.” Now, which “one”? The “one” who will be blessed “looks into the perfect law…

There are few thoughts more comforting than the realization that our God is the “God of all comfort” (2 Cor. 1:3). We may think of Him as an all-wise, all-powerful God (and He is!). But, how often does it cross your mind that we have the blessed privilege to be “comforted by God” with a comfort that “abounds through Christ” (1:4-5)? The…

Sometimes a Christian may be inclined to look at those in the world and think, “It’s not fair. They get to do whatever they want. They seem to be having more fun in life than me. They have so much more freedom to experience everything that’s out there.” If your eye and your heart is focused on the world and its ways,…