Keep Your Word No one likes to be lied to. No one likes to be made a promise and it not being kept. One of the fastest ways to destroy our witness for Jesus Christ is not to keep our word, because then we’ll be considered untrustworthy. In giving the people the Law of God, […]

Weary Yet Pursuing Life continually shows up and soon we find ourselves weary wanting nothing more than to give up. Ministry, heck, we have precious little time as it is, and we need to rest, not go to church or do ministry. Gideon and his 300-man army knew what it meant to be weary. They […]

Transforming Grace God’s grace transforms us, that is, God’s grace changes us. But it doesn’t depend on our working our way through it; rather it is God working His way through us. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is […]

Don’t Trifle With God God and His word are not to be trifled with. The story is found in 1 Chronicles 13. King David desired above all else to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. Now the Ark, or what is also known as God’s mercy seat (Exodus 25:17), was a representation of […]

The Bill Comes Due “So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it, and did not inquire of the Lord. Therefore He killed him and turned the […]

Contrary Ways Being contrary means to be opposed to something or someone in character, purpose, or direction. To be contrary to God is to be opposed to His word, will, and way. This is how God felt about Balaam, a man who was to speak for Him. When King Balak first requested Balaam to curse […]

Spiritual Discernment “Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?” (Mark 8:17b-18) After feeding the 4,000, the religious leaders came seeking a sign, but Jesus said only an adulterous generation seeks after signs. Afterwards, […]

Keeping What Belongs To God After Israel successfully defeated Jericho, a battle God had won for them, Achan took what belonged to God, and while only Achan and his family disobeyed God’s command, the whole of Israel paid the price. “But the Israelites acted unfaithfully in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Carmi, […]

Pigs Got Better Sense Some people really don’t think pigs are smart, and that’s because they roll around in mud and eat rotten leftovers. But they’re smarter than what many think. Some place their intelligence on par with dogs. But in our story pigs are a whole lot smarter than humans. As Jesus was casting […]

Faith Trumps Despair “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” (Psalm 27:13) David’s adversaries were spreading false reports about him, so much so that if David’s faith in God hadn’t been so deeply established and firmly entrenched, he […]