When was the last time you were in the midst of a crisis or stressful situation and you just stopped to be still? It’s not our nature. With our illusion…

I don’t know about you, but considering the trials, traumas, and temptations of life as opportunities for great joy isn’t natural. I have to make a conscious choice to do…

This ending verse of the “love chapter” used at so many weddings over the years is rich with meaning that we oftentimes miss. We take “faith, hope, and love” in…

Peter wrote these words to believers in Jesus. He shared with them that when a person chose to follow the Savior, God didn’t just leave them out there struggling to…

Have you ever considered preparing your conversations ahead of time? That’s what Paul is telling believers to do in Colossians 4:6. In this letter to the believers in Colossae, Paul…

In this letter to believers, Peter talked about the persecution they were experiencing and that would come. Then he said this remarkable thing: WHEN someone asks about this hope in…

I once lived a broken life, certain that I had been judged and found lacking in every way. See, I had been taught all my life that I wasn’t worth…

Do you remember the story of the bronze serpent? Israel, on the road out of Egypt, didn’t like the way things were, so they bad-mouthed Moses and Aaron, and worst…

A mob doesn’t start out as a mob. It is rarely a cohesive unit, even though the majority take their cues from a small core group. A mob continues the…

We often think of Jesus in one of two ways: the baby in the manger and the man on the cross. Sometimes we envisage the man walking through the land…

Jesus asked God to remove the cup of wrath from Him. The rich meaning of this request lay within the cups of the Passover Seder. It is another indication that…

What love! Love that didn’t eliminate humankind when it chose to be against Him. Love that instead chose to become the required sacrifice for sin. See, we are born anti-God.…