Temptation to Sin: Friend or Foe?
“For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong” 2 Corinthians 12: 10. I’m Only Tempted to Sin Where I’m...
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God Will Fight for You, but You Still Have to Go to Battle
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give...
What Does Mercy Look Like? God’s Faithfulness to His People
“And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.. . .Then the people of...
Why Is It So Hard to Trust God?
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water” Jeremiah 2: 13. In this passage, the...
God’s Redemption from Sin and Suffering
“. . . but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them” 2 Chronicles 15: 4. In this chapter we learn that...
Do Not Grow Weary in Well Doing Like Balaam
“So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, ‘Go to your own land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.‘ So the princes of Moab rose and went...
How We Became Slaves to Sin and Finding Freedom
“The king sang this lament for Abner: ‘Should Abner have died as the lawless die? Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked’”2 Samuel 3:...
The Destruction of the Flesh: Satan’s Gift to the Church
“. . . you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord” 1 Corinthians 5: 5. This is such...
Confess Your Sin and Avert God’s Judgement
“You say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned’”Jeremiah 2:35. Ancient Israel had forsaken the one true God to serve...
Many are the Afflictions of His Children
“I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you...