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

The heart leads the mind to pursue thoughts, ideas, and desires in the direction it is looking. Since the mind has a habit of thinking this way, changing means a change in the eyes. ...  Read More

The work of the Holy Spirit reveals these inner thoughts and motivations so that we can be cleansed on the inside of the cup and dish, a metaphor of repentance in our inner, private world. ...  Read More

"And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him (Jesus) eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?” (Mark 2...  Read More

The Lord regularly asks His Elect to do the hard thing, the risky thing, the inconvenient thing in order to fulfill His perfect will....  Read More

We can taste and see the Lord is good every day, all day and so learn to abide in Christ all the time. ...  Read More

The goal is think less about ourselves and more on Christ and His people. The one who truly is the greatest, the Lord Jesus Christ, never boasted in Himself or made attempts to draw attention to Himse...  Read More

It takes faith to follow God in this full stop. The Lord's commands are impossible to accomplish in our flesh. Many times God's commands don't make sense to us until much later. Sometimes we never und...  Read More

The Bible doesn't say we can't ever be angry, which would be quite impossible because anger is an emotion built into us all who are made like God who can be angry....  Read More

The great danger of living in the end times is that we know that there will be cataclysmic events, both man-made, devil-made and God-made. We thus can have a sense of dread instead of a sense of hope ...  Read More

The mustard seed parable shows us the way to start with some small action based on faith, start doing it, and then let it grow over time and repetition....  Read More