God’s people are meant to be lights, designed by God, to be seen and direct people to His Son. Regarding the sun, David wrote, “There is nothing hidden from its heat” (Ps 19:6).
Alone Time or Isolation?
Being alone isn’t wrong. Nor is it unhealthy to seek rest from difficult times by getting away for a bit. However, there is a fine line between getting some alone time and separating yourself from others in an unhealthy way.
Our God is in Heaven
Wealth, power, fame, and pleasure are abstract, fleeting pursuits. They are thoughtless, emotionless, and helpless. They only have what we give to them. Nonetheless, billions set these as their life’s focus.
Do I Care What You Think?
Someone else’s poor behavior never excuses us from doing what is right.
Weekend Plans?
What if, this weekend, you take a break from the mundane to invest in the divine?
It’s Going on the Refrigerator
When your son comes to you with a crayon drawing of the family, you don’t concern yourself with the disproportionate heads, cyclops eyes, or stick torsos. You see growth. You see love. You see your son. That’s what is going on the refrigerator.
Not the mistakes – the masterpiece.
Saved from What? How?
To be forgiven, our sins must be washed by the blood of Christ. But how? This is an abstract concept. Jesus’ blood was shed almost two thousand years ago. Since we can’t literally touch it to be cleansed, where do we see the figure for when it happens?
Faith and/or Works?
Doing something to be saved is not the same as being saved by what you do.
Then What Happened?
Who was deceived? If Adam wasn’t, then what?
Disciple
“Disciple” means “a learner,” but that definition leaves us with a weak picture compared to the reality of what it means to be a disciple. We see the root of this in our word “discipline.” Disciples were devoted pupils of a certain teacher. They followed him, practiced what he practiced, and identified themselves by his […]