Category Archives: Bible promises
When Sin Brutalizes You
When Our Sin Overwhelms Us “There are three things for certain. #1 You will never forget your sins. #2 God has forgotten them. #3 The Devil will try to make you remember your sins. The question is who are we going to side with? God says our sins are past, cleansed, and gone. You cannot go on with [...]
DOA: How Faith Killed My Faith in Atheism
(In this essay, writer Lee Strobel offers his defense of Easter.) It was the worst news I could get as an atheist: my agnostic wife had decided to become a Christian. Two words shot through my mind. The first was an expletive; the second was “divorce.” I thought she was going to turn into a [...]
Control the Brightness?
I have come to a place that much of what I have learned is wrong. It is humbling to think that I knew so much, and aggressively propagated what I knew. I am embarrassed by so much. A room can be lighted in different ways. A contractor determines what kind of illumination will be required, and [...]
Pics: Lion of the Tribe of Judah
“Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying and look! The one who is called both the `Lion from the Tribe of Judah‘ and `King David’s Great Descendant’ has won the victory. He will open the book and its seven seals.”Rev. 5:5, CEV I definitely love lions, I suppose they are my favorite [...]
The Kingdom is a Family on Their Way to a Party
“Anyone who does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” Mark 3:35 There is a hidden mechanism lying in wait for us in this verse. The fact that it is there at all borders on our sense of reason and the fantastic. To be a brother, or a sister to Jesus is almost absurd. [...]
Four Truths from God
I want to share four truths that I heard in church last Sunday. They are four truths that our youth minister heard a Christian speaker share at a conference earlier last week. But these four truths weren’t new with that speaker either. Their source is God and they are told to us in His Word. For [...]
Exuberantly Alive with Life
“The glory of God is a person fully alive” said the church father Irenaeus. Psalm 18 shows David exuberantly alive with the life of God. It is filled with rich imagery of God’s deliverance and blessing upon people the people of faith. I want Psalm 18 to become my story! I want it in my [...]
Getting to Know Your “Sheepiness”
I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and they know me. –John 10:14 The shepherds of Israel have a custom of marking their sheep to make them distinct from each other. Each bears a unique notch or brand that makes them distinguishable from their companions. It is not done for aesthetics, but recognition. Christ gives [...]