A Joyous Union We live in a world that’s quickly becoming filled with bitterness and hatred. Joy for life and living is fading, and is found mostly by many in pills or in a bottle. But God wants us to be joy filled, and He knows that this joy can only be found in relationship […]

Tempting Fate Fate is basically the destiny God has set for our lives, and to tempt fate is to do something that severely risks getting off course and not completing it through some behavior or state of mind. Jesus knew the will and way of God and didn’t tempt the Father by doing something outside […]

Why Do You Seek Jesus? People sought Jesus because of the miraculous signs He performed in healing the sick. They began following Jesus because of the signs and what they could get, rather than for God’s peace and the entrance of God’s kingdom. “Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee […]

Living Examples Our lives as believers in Jesus Christ aren’t to be done in private or outside the preview of others. We are never to live for ourselves; rather our lives are to be lived out in the open as an example, not only to other believers, but to the unbelievers as well. The Apostle […]

Wait and Trust Wait and trust are the two hardest words to put into practice. But until we learn to wait and trust we won’t be victorious in the attacks Satan launches against us. Consider Saul, and man chosen by God to be king over Israel. For a while things were going swimmingly. But then […]

The Sinfulness of Sin It’s not the fault of the commandments that we are sinful. The law is holy, righteous, and good. “So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good” (Romans 7:12). Consider the words of the Psalmist. “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the […]

The Deceitfulness of Sin Sin takes the law and deceives us with it. “For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me” (Romans 7:11). Sin’s deceit takes two forms. First it deceives by making a person feel safe and secure in the law. The sin that I’m referring to is […]

Ignorance Isn’t Bliss They say that ignorance is bliss, but not when it comes to God and His word. Now, while it may seem that not that knowing something is sin is freeing, it doesn’t save him or her come the time of judgment? They can never say, “I never knew!” Catch what the Apostle […]

Sin Uses The Law The law gives sin an opportunity to be used against us. Sin is not within the law; rather it is separate from it. But what the law does is stirs and awakens sin to work its evil desires. Note what the Apostle Paul says, “But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, […]

Out With The Old and In With The New This was the Apostle Paul’s take when he wrote, “For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having […]