God Blesses Hurting People
God Blesses Hurting People Jesus spent most of His time with tax collectors, zealots, prostitutes, beggars, and outcasts. When you read the story of Jesus in the gospels, you read about regular interactions with the lonely, the least, and the lost. When He talks to political elites, He rebukes them. When He talks to sinners, […]
Don’t Forget to Feast
Don’t Forget to Feast Jesus healed many people, but His first miracle didn’t heal anyone. For His first miracle, he turned water into wine. Why was this His first miracle? I believe it was for two reasons: Jesus turned water into wine to honor His mother. Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother. Then you […]
God Will Make You
God Will Make You Our world loves leadership. It’s all the rage. We have been trained to relentlessly pursue leadership and the power and wealth that it brings. If you are a Christian, one thing is blatantly clear: followership is greater than leadership. Scripture says much more about how to follow than it does about how […]
Follow Me
Follow Me Have you ever felt like you needed to change in order to fit into a group? I remember one morning recently when I went golfing with my brother, who was a member of a country club. When I got to the venue, my brother took one look at what I was wearing and […]
Fight Your Devils
Fight Your Devils In His time on Earth, Jesus regularly encountered evil spirits, and He came out on top every time. So, what can we learn about how to combat evil spirits by studying the actions of Jesus? Luke 4:1-17 tells us the story of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness. Immediately after Jesus was baptized, the […]
Resist Temptation
Resist Temptation In the very beginning of the Bible, we are introduced to the primary adversary of it’s story. In the garden, this adversary took on the form of a serpent, but he was not given a name. In fact, throughout the Bible, the authors work hard to not give the satan a name. They […]
Don’t Be Alone
Don’t Be Alone When we read the story of Jesus, we read a story of a Son who loves His Father. The intimacy between the Father and the Son sustains the Son throughout His life. That is why is it so hard to read that Jesus felt abandoned by God on the cross. They existed […]
You Make God Happy
Making God Happy All of us like to be told that we are doing a good job. I get discouraged if I feel that my work is going unnoticed or unappreciated, and I would be a better boss if I would remember to tell my employees that they are doing well more often. So why […]