Divulging Deception God knew our propensity to go after the miracle. We are ever on the hunt for the new thing, the new experience that we leave behind the truth. And so God tells us not to get carried away with the experience to follow after what is false. “If there arises among you a […]

Out and In Basic Truth: God brings us out of so He can bring us into. “Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.” (Deuteronomy 6:23) Moses said God brought them out of their Egyptian bondage so He […]

Abba, Father There is something about a father. A father’s attributes and characteristics are passed down to his children. How often do we hear how our children are just like us? I would sometimes hear how I was just like my father, and why not; his DNA is a part of my DNA. This is […]

Refuse To Quit Paul was someone who could have easily been depressed. He was whipped, beaten, stoned, and left for dead. He was imprisoned, shipwrecked, and was in constant in peril from both the Jews and Gentiles. He could have easily fallen into despair, but He knew God’s plan and purpose and it kept him […]

Find A New Rhythm To help conquer depression we have to find a new rhythm. Finding a new rhythm is something I’ve been advising those who have experienced a loss of a loved one, although in different terms. I tell them they have to find a new normal. One of the things most people who’ve […]

Don’t Lose Heart “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” (Galatians 6:9) In the Greek language this phrase, “don’t lose heart,” means to unstring a bow. We often get depressed and lose heart because we aren’t seeing any hope, nor […]

What’s Wrong With Us? How can we be so deluded? Here we are saved by God’s grace through faith, and we go back and do the things we use to do when we were in the world. These things didn’t save us; in fact they were the very things Satan used to keep us in […]

God’s Gift of Service In choosing Aaron and his sons to perform the service of the priesthood, God said that it was His gift to them. “But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the […]

Touching Jesus Out of the hundreds that pressed and crowded around Jesus, only one reached out by faith and touched Him. “When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak … Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and […]

An Encourager is a Reconciler An encourager is a person who accepts people as they are, letting the past be the past, and will help someone get to where God needs for them to be. Barnabas was such an encourager. “And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they […]