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

We always desire to be delivered out of divine judgment (e.g. Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah) but many times the Lord sovereignly decrees we are to be delivered through judgment (10 Egyptian plagues). ...  Read More

It can be helpful to read and pray through the Psalms of Lament when we are feeling discouraged or disillusioned. We realize as we read that we are not alone in our emotional struggles as we walk by f...  Read More

But there are times when we must stop listening to our heart and begin speaking. The dividing line is found in the phrase "cast down" and the word disquieted. The Psalmist is asking a rhetorical not a...  Read More

Here the psalmist gives us a good question to ask ourselves in these unexpected painful moments and even better counsel on what to do in these moments. Asking ourselves "Why are you downcast. oh my so...  Read More

Pursing peace should never devolve into pursuing passivity out of fear of conflict. We can walk in the Lord's victory when men rise up against us despite our best efforts to live in peace because the ...  Read More

Wisdom is described as something that existed from the beginning and is the prized possession of the Lord. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ was the Word of God from the beginning. (John 1:1-2) Wisdo...  Read More