How Overcoming Sin Keeps You Safe
“But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. They...
How Is the Parable of the Sower Relevant Today?
“’A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed. . . some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil...
Submit to God and Be Healed
“Go and tell Hananiah, ‘This is what the Lord says: You have broken a wooden yoke, but in its place you will get a yoke of iron’” Jeremiah 28:13. Jeremiah was God’s “weeping prophet” to His...
Serving A Pointless God
Humans need a God. That’s why gods have been a prominent part of all civilizations from the beginning of time. You and I need a God because we are, well, human. We are mortal....
How Suffering Produces Character
“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope” Romans 5: 3, 4. This passage tells us perseverance produces character. This is a simple...
The Trial of Jesus: Injustice God’s Vehicle
“Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people, and said to them, ‘You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in...
Wisdom’s Narrow Way
“Her [wisdom’s]ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace” Proverbs 3:17. According to this verse wisdom’s ways are pleasant and peaceful, so why don’t people choose them more often? To read the...
The Narrow Way: How Less Leads to More
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to...
The Garden of Eden and the Blood of Christ
“And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat,...
Trials, Humility and Honor in the Bible
“But Peter declared, ‘Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.’ And all the other disciples said the same” Mathew 26:35. If the disciples had not experienced this painful, eye-opening...