Book Snippet The Bible is God’s instruction manual for life. As the Designer and Creator, the One who built us, only God knows how we operate and how to keep and maintain this life He’s has so graciously given. The Bible tells us not only how we are designed, but also how to operate the […]

Book Snippet Getting Aligned With God “Let’s stop deceiving ourselves that we can continue to sin without consequences. God is holy and just and will not overlook sin. God hates sin and we must start hating sin as well; we have to quit trifling with it and excusing our sins away. “To hate sin and […]

Book Snippet “Aligning with God and His Word” To help with this spiritual realignment a person doesn’t have to make an appointment with a spiritual hermit who lives in a mountain cave in some foreign land. Instead, it just takes going back to God and the Bible, His instruction manual for life. God and His […]

Book Snippet Scrubbed and Cleansed “Where are you today? Are you still caught up in the rat race of sin and confession without change? If that is you, you may be asking where to begin. The best place is with prayer, fasting, and an extended stay in God’s Word, because there needs to be a […]

Book Snippet What does it mean to confess? Webster’s Dictionary defines confession as telling or making known a wrong. But it actually goes much deeper. In Greek to confess means to speak the same thing. But the same things as what? It means to speak the same thing God speaks by calling what we do […]

Book Snippet Who we are in heaven “(There’s) a name we’ll receive in heaven, a new name that not only represents our new nature, but also God’s new name representing our new relationship with Him.” To learn more as to what that name will be (From Here to There: A Journey to Spiritual Transformation, page […]

Book Snippet We are saints who sin “To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints.” (Romans 1:7) We are sinners saved by grace meaning we are saints who sometimes sin. This goes back to our being a new creation in Christ. We are no longer who we were. Life is […]

Book Snippet A new creation in Christ Jesus “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Once we were messes, but now we’re God’s masterpieces. Once we were sinners steeped in our sins, but we’ve been redeemed and […]

WE ARE GOD’S MASTERPIECE “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10) We tend to only see our flaws or the things we wish we could change. But not so with God! We are God’s work of art, His […]

Book Snippet How will we be called? Should we be described by our problems, or by God’s promise? Elizabeth, John the Baptist’s mother, was once defined by her childless condition. “Her who was called barren.” (Luke 1:36) Although she was called barren everywhere she went, God saw her differently. God saw her as a mighty […]