Remember God’s Past Intervention To create an environment of faith we need to remember what God has done for us in the past. “You have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the Lord your God is He who has fought for you.” (Joshua 23:3 […]

Becoming a Christ Follower As I look at a group of Philistines I see what is means to become a disciple, a follower of Jesus Christ. King David was going into exile to avoid a civil war with his son, Absalom. As he was leaving Jerusalem he moved to the side of the road to […]

An Equality of Willingness In his second letter to the Corinthian Church the Apostle Paul takes the time to praise their giving. He says that while their affliction and poverty were great, they had great joy because they gave liberally beyond their ability. This type of giving is further seen when they urged Paul to […]

The Sin of Doing Nothing A man lay close to death on the side of the road. When two religious leaders came on the scene they opted not to get involved and walked on the other side of the road. In their mind they thought that if they helped this man they might become defiled […]

State Our Faith We need to clarify and what we’re asking God to do, and then state it. A secret faith is a shallow faith, because if nobody knows what we believe then we can back out it at any time. But why did Jesus ask what Bartimaeus wanted? He’s blind and begging. The need’s […]

God’s Gift Of Righteousness “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) We cannot fully understand the second part in how we have become the righteousness of God without understanding the first part, that is, Jesus who […]

But If Not Faith It’s all about having a “But if not” faith. This was the faith three young Jewish men had when facing possible death. Nebuchadnezzar made it clear that if they didn’t bow to the golden statue they would be thrown into the fiery furnace. But they had faith in God, not only […]

Living For Jesus While We Wait There is a beautiful example of how we are to live our life until the Lord returns. It comes from an obscure individual in the Bible. His name is Mephibosheth. Crippled from being dropped when he was a child, hiding out in a desolate land, Lo Debar, sought after […]

God’s Calling is Irrevocable How long will it take before we get it? Take a look at the story of God’s call for Moses. “Then Moses answered and said, ‘But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ So the Lord said […]

Living a Balanced Life At first what Solomon is saying seems blasphemous. “Do not be overly righteous, nor be overly wise: why should you destroy yourself? Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish: why should you die before your time?” (Ecclesiastes 7:16-17) But what Solomon saying is that we are to live our lives […]