Doing good work is a very good thing, but not when it becomes the main thing. So how do we know when that happens? When we find ourselves doing good work for Jesus, but we’ve stopped walking with Jesus. We talk about Jesus. We teach about Jesus. We write...
When things don’t go as you plan, do you wish you could just start over? Hear me, friend: Don’t start over. Just begin again. An old Scottish proverb says, “the best-laid plans often go awry.” It refers to something that hasn’t turned out well or been as...
There's a big difference between speaking Biblical truth in love and the culture’s version of speaking truth in love. Biblical truth is the Truth of God's Word. Biblical love is a God-kind of love– it's doing what is in the best interest of others– loving unconditionally, but...
The sheer foolishness of people never ceases to make me slap my forehead— probably because I lived so foolishly in my earlier years (and should have done a lot more forehead slapping back then). In the Bible, the book of Proverbs refers to foolishness as...
I am an absolute believer in the Word of God. As you may have heard me say a time or two (or ten!), “God’s Word works when you work it into your life.” The Word of God is living and active and powerful, operative, energizing,...
Sometimes, God will force a stillness on you. Stillness is critical to our relationship with God. Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” The way to know God is to be still or "cease striving” as the term means. And we...
I've been there. God has said “no” to me, plenty of times, and looking back– every single time it was always a good thing that he did. Most of the time when I would ask God for things, I would ask him for something that...
Just because somebody else is doing something doesn't mean you can't do it. For example, there are a lot of people out there who are great Bible teachers. (If you’re new here, you may not know that I happen to be a Bible teacher.) Now, I...
It’s the second Monday of the New Year and a bunch of us out there are starting to panic. 2022 has launched, the ship is pulling away from the pier, and you’re still packing your bags. You feel panic setting in because you don’t have...
No sin has more devastating and damaging effects on the body and mind than sexual sin does. And yet it’s treated casually in the church. Look at just one popular example: Couples living together outside of marriage. Not only is this practice tolerated in the...