Driving in bad weather is a nightmare we all dread. However, if our car has traction control, we can drive up the steepest of hills without a worry in the ...
Read more: The Traction Control Christian
April 1st is a day for jokesters and pranksters. We expect bizarre fake news stories to pop up on our computers and whoopee cushions to sound off in our chairs. It becomes nothing more than a moment ...
Read more: A Foolish Life
Easter is a day of rejoicing in Christ’s risen triumph. We see it as a time of rebirth. It is spring, we have on our newest clothes, and life is wonderful.
To have lived it two thousand years ago ...
Can something dead be brought back to life? Devastated finances? A foundering relationship? A ruined life? A country wrought by civil war? A people sliding toward spiritual ...
Read more: Dead Wood and the Christ
It is easy for us to lose our focus on God. Few are the people who can keep God in their sights when financial turbulence and emotional turmoil buffet us.
However, God lives in the Land of Neither. ...
Read more: God’s Neither Land
Sometimes it feels like everyone has a hand in our pocketbook. The cable company is on autopay, the gas pump debits our account twice a week, and taxes knock us for a loop every ...
Read more: Returning God’s Blessing
We struggle with those times when we have received the Word of God, and still, everything seems against us. We take a step forward in his name, and the enemy seems to push us two steps back.
When ...
Sometimes we feel we’ve reached the end of our rope, we’ve tied a knot just to be able to hang on, and the rope’s coming unraveled in our ...
Read more: The Last Knot on the Rope
Casting our nets of salvation inside the church walls is not Jesus’ plan. He didn’t try to win souls in the temple. Instead, he reached out to those caught in the steely grip of their ...
Read more: Five Steps to Success in Jesus
Winter snows can be beautiful, but what about when all the glory melts away? What do we have left? The world appears brown and nondescript, and it can suck the joy out of our days.
The Jews of ...
Read more: A Greening Jesus
Picture a department store. How easy is it to recognize the appropriate clothing department for our age bracket? Quite easy for most of ...
Read more: Put On a New Robe
God is all about the future. He wants us to leave the broken bones of the past behind and move forward in him to a brand new thing.
In Part 1, we learned that we must first immerse ourselves in the ...
Read more: God’s New Thing (part 2 of 2)
