So what’s your purpose in life? Some have made a “bucket list” of all the things they want to do before they “kick the bucket.” If you had such a list, what is the one thing above all else on it? May I suggest that at the top of everyone’s list should be the determination to make their mission in life identical…

There are two individuals in the Bible of whom it is said they “walked with God.” Many know the first one—Enoch. The second one is Noah. What is the character of one who walks with God? Perhaps the answer is found, in part, in Psalm 15. This psalm begins by asking the question, “Who may dwell in Your holy hill?” The answer…

The unchanging nature of God is the foundation of our faith. We do not serve a Master whom we might view as “the way He used to be.” Nor can He be viewed in “the way He will be.” James describes Him as the “Father of lights, with whom there is no variation” (James 1:17). He truly is the I AM. He…

Because we live in a material world, it is so easy to be overcome by materialism. It is “things” which make our lives easier, but “things” can so easily become our master. The Bible is filled with admonitions about this danger. The wisest man who ever lived was Solomon. He was also one of the wealthiest of his day and understood so…

We must never forget just how much God loves us. It is not because we are loveable or have ever done anything to obligate His attention to us. In fact, the opposite is true. He loved us long before we were ever His children. These truths are emphasized by Paul in the book of Romans. In the first chapter he described the…

Read these words of Jesus from Luke 12:54-56 and ask yourself, how does this apply to me?  “Then He also said to the multitudes, ‘Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, “A shower is coming”; and so it is.  And when you see the south wind blow, you say, “There will be hot weather”; and there…

That is what God, in essence, told newlyweds to do in the Old Testament.  In Deuteronomy 24:5, the One who created, defined and regulates marriage instructed the Jews, “When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his…

If God is the one “who comforts” and is “your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth” and is “the Lord your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared,” then here is God’s question for you—“Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who will die?” (Isa. 51:12-15).  We spend so much…