Mercenary love for God is an embarrassing reality until God makes a shift in our heart and mind. In our text, The sons of Korah capture the heart and mindset shift in a simple relative value statement...  Read More

"...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort witho...  Read More

our sole purpose is to "glorify God in our bodies" 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. His work, becomes our work. If He doesn't enable us with the "right things in our minds intellectually and the right things in...  Read More

The Lord puts his finger on a particular area we are prejudging when it becomes detrimental to our spiritual growth. The Lord said to the prophet Samuel when he looked favorably on Jesse's oldest son,...  Read More

Not many of the elite are able to humble themselves in order to receive Jesus as Savior (1 Corinthians 1:26-30), but the Lord has chosen that the gospel be preached to everyone regardless of their rec...  Read More

As far as Roman prisons go, this was top-of-the-line. Paul was untouchable by the Jews while he was given a platform to share the gospel with the most prominent Roman and Jewish leaders. What difficul...  Read More

The Lord showed mercy to the third captain precisely because he demonstrated proper respect and humility in approaching Elijah. Here again we see how the Lord cares very deeply who we seek for wisdom ...  Read More

The Bible is clear that there is a sorrowful emotional response in both cases but only godly sorrow produces a vehement public desire to see justice done. In other words, tears and sorrow are not enou...  Read More

The first blame-shifting is found immediately after the fall with Adam blaming Eve and Eve blaming the serpent (devil) for their rebellion. The truth is Adam, Eve and the serpent were all guilty in di...  Read More

Fear is a primitive emotion hardwired into the human brain and is like an alarm system constantly scanning our environment for potential threats. Emotions are intended by our creator to make life rich...  Read More

Ben Franklin wisely wrote "Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running." Surprisingly, Ahimaaz gives David news of the military victory but pretends not to know about what happened to Abs...  Read More

We passionately pursue holiness (Hebrews 12:14) because it does impact the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives but we don't credit our holiness (Peter says godliness) for a miracle....  Read More