There is nothing more frightening than awakening from a deep sleep to sudden, unexpected danger. Even the most hardened warrior instinctively recognizes their complete helplessness during sleep. God ...  Read More

The Bible doesn't say what Saul prophesied but it would be a poetic justice if Saul prophesied that David would be king, and that before Samuel and David as a moment of divine encouragement. The great...  Read More

The tests that God prepares for us are not just meant to build character but also to build skill in using our spiritual armor and weapons. This can only be done in the midst of real combat. Soldiers c...  Read More

The Highway of Holiness has many of these narrow places designed by God to draw us toward him but there is always a danger to return to the sinful strongholds of the past. ...  Read More

An important part of building our faith is regularly feeding our souls with the great works of the Lord. We do this by reading the Word of God to remind ourselves of the Lord's amazing exploits of the...  Read More

Talking about an experience helps us learn by encouraging reflection, critical analysis and discussion, which deepen understanding, not only of the experience, but also about ourselves. We identify wh...  Read More

the Lord will always include some kind of obstacle, a hurdle that only those who have spiritual eyes of faith can walk over but will make those who are spiritually blind stumble. It doesn't take much ...  Read More

We seek meaning in our own suffering and we are apt to make judgments on the meaning of suffering in others. Victor Frankl, the Jewish survivor of Nazi prison camps, suggests a reason in his book Man...  Read More

The American Church largely teaches a gospel that is easy to believe by leaving out all the things that can offend thereby inoculating everyone to the true Gospel and the true Christian life that the ...  Read More

Consumerism and it's evil twin sister, materialism, values material possessions above all. It's motto of "He who dies with the most toys wins" is deadly to a vibrant spiritual life. Jesus sternly warn...  Read More

God’s work is in a deeper category of self-control and submission. It's about degrees, attitudes, and constraints, less about the action. ...  Read More

Retirement is an American ideal where we stop our natural occupation in favor of preferred activities, often leisure, but it is also an extraordinarily precarious time because it may cause us to be in...  Read More