Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God…” A new year feels like a new beginning. Maybe that’s why there’s so much excitement over it, off with the old and on with the new. A chance to start over, learn from our mistakes and start fresh in the new year. The new year feels full of possibilities…
He is not far from you. You must turn to him, and when you turn, his light is already shining full on you. What a great truth it is, how full of courage, this truth that we may go away from God, but God cannot go away from us! How God loves his own great…
“What the wicked fears will come upon him,But the desire of the righteous will be granted.” The wicked can only live in fear. Notice their responses to the recent terrorist attack in Europe. They may have a lot of loud words and get busy with security, but down deep there is fear. When a person…
In his book Worship, John MacArthur describes the fallout of the biblical illiteracy that permeates the church today: “Worship” aims to be as casual and as relaxed as possible, reflecting an easy familiarity with God unbefitting His transcendent majesty. This type of “worship” seems to aim chiefly at making sinners comfortable with the idea of…
Let me explain worship in a simple way. The deeper your understanding of the truth of God, the deeper your understanding of God Himself, the higher your worship goes. Worship is directly correlated to understanding. The richer your theology, the more full your grasp of biblical truth, the more elevated your worship becomes. You don’t…
“And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall…
Begin at once; before you venture away from this quiet moment, ask your King to take you wholly into his service, and place all the hours of this day quite simply at his disposal, and ask him to make and keep you ready to do just exactly what he appoints. Never mind about tomorrow; one…
[Show slideshow] Luke 23:34. And Jesus prayed, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” It’s hard to imagine that our Lord would pray for others at a time when He was suffering the greatest trial of His human existence. But that’s what He did. He who knew the thoughts of man, understood…
“[Christ’s] wisdom is our direction, his knowledge our instruction, his power our protection, his justice our surety, his love our comfort, his mercy our solace, and his immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for the hidden treasures.”
States and the Nation. It is well documented that many Christians do not consistently vote. The Bible says, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s. Many believe those words of the Lord Jesus limit the relationship of the believer and government to simply paying taxes.…
So I’m an angry person. What must I do to change and overcome my anger? I must realize my anger is sin. My anger is not a character flaw. Being an angry person is not just the way that I am. In light of this… I must confess my sin to God and ask His…
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” ((James 1:19-20)) Have you noticed that there are a lot of angry people around us? Just look at the frontage of any newspaper today. People are angry…