May I encourage you today with just a reminder, something you already know. First, I would remind you that God still loves you. He doesn’t enjoy seeing you hurt. We don’t like for our children to b…

You are an overcomer, Christian – believe it! The Holy Spirit who resides in you, guarantees that you can be victorious over everything Satan throws at you. It is only when you doubt your pos…

Lesson 5: A NEW HEART AND NEW LIFEGod promises, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” (Ezekiel 36:26). Regeneration produces new desires: love of God, hatred of…

Faith is central to justification. Abraham, for example, “believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:6). The New Testament applies this principle to…

The word “belief” is a big, powerful, compelling word. It is more than giving mental assent to what you have read or what someone has said. It defines who you are at all times and in every situatio…

It is the sword, not the scabbard, that benefits you in the day of battle. The scabbard may be decorated with silver, gold, and many costly jewels, but in the battle, no one is impressed by the sca…

The self-righteous cannot read the 51st Psalm. Oh, they can read the words, but it holds nothing for them. Which of them will pray, “Cleanse Thou me, wash me, and I shall be clean. Have mercy on me…

“….Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven….” (Matthew 6:10). We recognize this as part of the Lord’s Prayer. But can we truly pray that God’s will would be done with us and in us,…

HEAVEN, where there will be no more sea! You may wonder why there is no more sea. John is thinking what the sea represents. As he writes this, he is sitting on a little rocky island, in the Aegean …

HEAVEN! There will be no sorrow there! This world is full of sorrow. I doubt you can find a home that has not been invaded by sorrow. Behind the smiling face there, you may find a heart that is fil…