I'm the godliest person I know, now what?
I can sort of laugh momentarily at the question I'm the godliest person I know, what do I do now? But in reality, that can be the case. You might be a believer finding yourself in a local church where there just isn't an emphasis on the preached Word, there isn't an emphasis on discipleship and on g...
Heaven: Our Glorious New Home
The Mature Christian Anticipates the Resurrection, Part 2
In the city of Corinth in the Apostle Paul’s day, some in the church were proclaiming, “There is NO resurrection of the dead.” But Paul had an answer to this claim. Paul, in essence, replied: If there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised! And if Christ has not been...
How should we balance contentment with ambition?
That's always the struggle that we have as Christians- we are called to be content. We are called to just be happy where we are. We're called to bloom where we're planted. And the Bible calls us to contentment. The Apostle Paul proclaimed that he can be content whether he has a lot or whether he has...
God delivered Israel, but what about the martyrs?
One of the great truths found in the Old Testament is that as God formed the nation of Israel and he gave them their commands, their covenant of how they were to be faithful to him, if you know your Old Testament, they almost always broke covenant, and yet God continued to return and to return and t...