Have you ever come across people who kept to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law? How frustrating is it to work with such people? They are very exact in following the law but they forget why the law is there in the first place. For example, one time I […]

Ezekiel 22:30-And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.  Think about how Jesus Christ defined love, and how unpopular it was in His day (and still is).  Now think about how popular […]

Have you ever witnessed a genuine miracle of God? I cannot help but think as I’m reading all the miracles occurring in the Book of Acts in the life of the earth church, why we don’t see many miracles at all today. Many miracles? Actually, most of us are not sure if we have seen […]

Psalm 22:2-4 2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. 3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 4 In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. I think the question “why” or “why not” maybe the most […]

I was recently struck by what one pastor said. He said (I paraphrase), “I don’t know why God was silent the 999 times I’ve prayed the same prayer, but on the 1,000th time, He granted the request.” I find comfort in that. There are times when I wonder if God is really listening and why He […]

How do you convince a young person who “knows” what’s best for himself and anyone who tells him otherwise is boring and old? If you try to sit him down and talk sense into him, he will just roll his eyes and object to everything you say. Even if you tell him you were once […]

2 Timothy 1:12-which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. If we think about why we go through the things we go through, there usually is an “end goal” […]

The image we often have of God – a grandfatherly figure with long white beard – is decidedly wrong. It is true what they say – “God has no grandchildren.” Therefore, God is not a grandfather to anyone. Rather, He is more like a young dad – dark hair and cleanly shaven! – who loves doting […]

Romans 5:11–More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. If you think about any argument you’ve had within in a relationship, in order for peace to come back into it, someone has to initiate the first move for reconciliation.  If both sides are too […]

I have no doubt that you are a good person and you would do all that you could to help others. But would you still help them if, by helping them, their disabilities or troubles would become yours? For example, you see a blind man struggling to cross the street. If you knew, by helping that […]