I don’t know if your holiday season is marked by joy or sorrow this year, but I do know this: You can choose to magnify the Lord in the midst of it all!
As for me? I choose the way of the foolish, even though it runs contrary to what has long been taught in church. I choose to proclaim a message from God that screams He’s mad about you, not mad at you, and nothing: the way you vote, what country you’re from, or anything else, can change that fact.
Never again will I try to earn God’s favor - I qualify to walk in His goodness because that’s who He is, not based on what I’ve done!
As Christians, we’re taught to be people of our word and to be true to what we say - my word is my bond. While the sentiment is admirable, this can also paint us into a corner where by being true to our word we are unable to follow the Spirit. So how should the believer proceed? Find out!
We’re often taught about having faith, but in what? Faith in our faith, faith for prosperity or healing? No, faith in God’s love! Find out why faith in God’s love is so powerful in this blog!
Even though we had prepared to have kids and had our plan in our head, God had a different plan for us entirely. Though we had to trust God through the pain, His plan was ultimately for our best.
Is God interested in changing your life, or is He interested in something far deeper? Find out if the God of the Scripture is more concerned with our lives measuring up properly or in changing our hearts to be more in line with His.
What was the early church’s practice when it came to women? Did they merely speak in words that empowered them or was this followed in practice? Click to find out.
Did Paul really mean that women can't have authority over a man and must learn in submission when he wrote 1 Timothy 2:11-12? Context wins again. :)
Do women need to remain silent in the Church? Are they allowed to preach? For years, clobber verses have been taught as the end all, be all to this question, but was that what the Bible really meant, or was there something else entirely being addressed contextually in these verses? Read this blog to find out!
After the cross, there is a major difference in how we must read and interpret the Bible. If we carry over our Old Testament reading of the scripture into the new, we’ll constantly misinterpret and misrepresent what it actually is that Jesus was endeavoring to teach us in the scripture and the message of Christianity as a whole.
What happens when we realize that the world is broken? At our core, we all desire to see everything made new, and that very desire is a desire implanted on the inside of us by God Himself.
Society tells us that the way to get ahead is to push others out of the way, step on the little guy, and do whatever it is that you can to succeed. Jesus tells us that the true way to advance in the Kingdom of God is to be one who serves others, who recognizes they are totally dependent on God for all of their life.
Mercy is messy. Mercy is not black and white, mercy is living in the grey. Sacrifice can give us rules by which we live, but mercy can make us genuinely uncomfortable.
While the scripture refers to freedom, it is not referring to our freedoms as Americans, our ability to defend our rights, freedom to demand the government make rules to protect the Church, or anything along those lines…it is referring to our freedom in Christ to love better than we have before.
If there is anything that calls our fealty to Christ into question, it isn't the fact that we're not hard enough on what we perceive to be sin, it's the fact that we're so concerned with standing up for God that we forget to love people.
The Parable of the Sower is often used as an example of "How To Prosper" financially, but is that what Jesus was really trying to convey to us? Or was He endeavoring to show us something deeper?
When He died as the perfect sacrifice, He took away the First Covenant - or the Law, with all its ordinances and rules for behavior - and established the Second Covenant - where we are sanctified once and for all time.
One of the most important parts of reading scripture is understanding the context in which it was written. Find out how context impacts interpretation and why that’s vital to a full understanding of scripture in Fulfill: Scripture In Context.
Have you ever had a prophetic word spoken over your life, and now, years later, you’re sitting there wondering when (or if) it will ever come to pass?
Walking out a life led by the law leads to death and it leads to condemnation. Full stop. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
It's the sustaining grace of God that leads us from where we were to where we desire to be, that keeps working on the inside of us, shaping the rough edges, and bringing us into full alignment with the person of Christ.
Jesus manifested grace to this hurting woman, and in turn, she received it…It was His love and compassion that changed her forever.
if there isn't fruit in your life…it is likely that your faith is dead, because living faith produces fruit.
God is trying to take us somewhere, but we won't get there with our eyes on the past.
When the veil is lifted, we see that God’s plan was always to pour out His Spirit on all flesh, that our faith in Christ is shown by how we treat those around us!
"Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread."
Until we recognize that none of us every truly graduate from our need for Him daily, we will have missed the point entirely.
In some ways, I feel like I'm reading Scripture for the first time, seeing it in the full light of the Person and Character of Jesus.
Success in life cannot defined by dictionary and it can't be truly defined by words. Success is found in living a steady life before God, in both service to Him and in service to others.