Emmanuel: God With Us at Christmas – and Always
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. The evening before the birth of the Savior. When God’s full divinity, became fully human, in a baby, born to a humble couple, in a quiet […]
2 Keys to Breaking Free from Porn Addiction
A friend from church recently sent me the following question after I had shared in a sermon about a multi-year journey of breaking free from pornography addiction in my latter […]
How To Meditate Upon & Memorize Scripture
Sometime this week, choose a block of 30 minutes to have a special solo time alone with God. Set aside this time especially for “listening prayer,” a time when you […]
3 Questions for Spiritual Growth: #3–What Would You Counsel Your Best Friend To Do?
We’ve all felt it. That feeling of facing a problem that seems insurmountable. A dilemma with no good solution. A situation that has you perplexed, stumped. You’ve tried everything you […]
3 Questions for Spiritual Growth: #2–What Would a Better ______ Be Doing?
There are three questions which I believe we can ask our Father God, which can help us discern His will and pursue continued growth in Him as His children. My […]
3 Questions for Spiritual Growth: #1–“Father, What Do You Think or Feel About This?”
In prayer, we can express to God anything and everything we are thinking and feeling. He welcomes this, and wants it! There is room, also, for questions in prayer: for […]
The Historical Reliability of the Bible
As Westernized Christians living in the 21st-Century, we are products of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. The auto-pilot of our brains, the default OS (operating system) in our brains […]
If You Have Difficulty Relating to God as Father…
The concept of God-as-Father is difficult to accept for some people: Not everyone can relate to God as a good Father. Not everyone has a good relationship with their earthly […]
What Does It Mean to be “Co-Heirs with Christ”?
Today, I invite you into the lawyer’s office. A lawyer who determines the rightful heirs to an estate, who follows the mandates of a written will or trust, and distributes […]
Is the Bible to be taken Literally or Figuratively?
There are many parts of the Bible that are meant to be understood literally. Most of the Bible is a record of historical events that actually happened: the first 5 […]
