Elijah’s Dark Days
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours (James 5:17, esv). Don’t you love the transparency with which God’s Word describes real men and women? On almost every page of Scripture you meet people “just like us.” Take Elijah, for example. James 5:17 says that God’s prophet Elijah was “a man with a nature like […]
Accept Rejection Now
WATCH What is the biggest hurt impacting your life today? Too often, we’re looking for freedom but stuck in our hurt. Some injuries are recent, others decades old yet still wreaking havoc our lives. Emotional healing is one of the most visible needs of our day – and it was a primary focus of […]
Breaking Generational Chains
“For I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments” (Deuteronomy 5:9–10, esv). If we’re going to change, we have […]
Far More Abundantly
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us (Ephesians 3:20, esv). How big can you dream? Most of us have big, bold imaginations. We can hope big, wish big, and dream big. But do we pray that […]
Why Rock Bottom?
WATCH Ever have so many bad days it seems everything’s going wrong? When your life is finally going in the right direction, when you’re focused on following Jesus, struggles and roadblocks still appear. When you feel hard pressed and trapped, it’s time to stop and turn to the Lord. Even Jesus had bad days and […]
Consequently
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life (Galatians 6:7–8, esv). We’ve gotten our circumstances and […]
God’s Ear for Compassion
,Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered (Proverbs 21:13, esv). God is not hard of hearing. In fact, when we don’t know what to pray—when we’re in such distress that we can’t even construct a sentence to describe it—the Holy Spirit “intercedes for us […]
What I Think When Things Go Bad
WATCH Ever have so many bad days it seems everything’s going wrong? When your life is finally going in the right direction, when you’re focused on following Jesus, struggles and roadblocks still appear. When you feel hard pressed and trapped, it’s time to stop and turn to the Lord. Even Jesus had bad days and […]
Barriers to Real Worship
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them” (Exodus 20:4–5, esv). When we allow anything to accumulate on the […]
“You Stink!” is Unavoidable
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? (2 Corinthians 2:15–16, esv) According to the apostle Paul, you stink. […]