The gospel provides us with a view of the future that empowers our lives today. “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your…
Tragedy, calamity, betrayal, struggle, slander, and all the other difficulties we face in our lives are an important part of the complex tapestry that is God’s grand plan for our existence here in this world. The life of the Apostle Paul is characterized by…
When believers share the gospel with today’s world, they have to overcome the idols of this generation. Many people today worship money. Some worship personal freedom and express that devotion through substance abuse of various kinds. Others use their personal freedom to exercise their…
Imagine you’re on an enormous cruise ship filled with thousands of people ready to depart on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to the UK. Now imagine your mom knows the ship’s captain and has arranged for him to give you…
In the beginning, in the Garden of Eden, heaven and earth were together. Earth was a beautiful garden where God and humans existed together. Then sin entered the picture. Because Adam and Eve decided they wanted to do things their own way rather than…
In the final chapter of the Book of John, the resurrected Jesus appeared to the disciples for the third time. This encounter contains an important lesson for all of us. The disciples were in a boat fishing about a hundred yards off shore and…