Our kids are going to learn more from our lifestyle than they’re going to learn from our words. We need to give them a godly example. You do not have to pretend perfection: you are not. They’re going to be watching you to see how you handle your mess-ups. There are so many things they can only learn by example.

Learning to rejoice does not mean there are no tears, or grief. It means that despite all of the vicissitudes of life we will ever face on this side of the new heaven and the new earth, when our confidence is anchored in the living God, we can look to Him even in the midst of tear-bleary eyes and rejoice in Him.

I will follow God’s instructions, continue to pursue the goal, and not listen to those who try to distract me from my God-given direction and goal.

The love that most of us think of regarding God the Father is from John 3:16 - “For God loved the world in this way…” The father gave that which was most precious to Him, (because only He could make the way and because He loves us.

Do your children know that you love them?

Do you tell them or show them? (or both?)

What is most precious to you?

Our time is usually the thing that we covet the most. We hold on to it and are slow to share it, even with our children.

To see the ultimate demonstration of God’s goodness, one must return to the gospel, and that takes you back to the cross. It takes you back to all that He has done, bearing our sin in His own body on the tree, and all of its working in all of our lives as Christians, not only now, but for all eternity.

No thoughtful Christian can ever say, ‘if you have problems with suffering, I have all the answers.’ Rather, at the end of the day, will still recognize there is mystery and hurt and a God who is still bigger: We don’t know enough to stand in judgment of God when we suffer. We must strive to trust as Job did. “Though He slay me, I will Trust Him.”

One cannot live faithfully in this life unless you’re ready for the next life.

Decision or Commitment? John 3:1-2 There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. Atfer dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous sighs are evidence that God is with you.” Fans look […]

Mary didn't stand stoically and passively at the foot of the cross, as if she were already made out of stained glass. She collapsed to the ground at the cross. She fell down to the depths of sorrow right there, moaning and wailing and begging the God of Heaven to stop her Hell on earth.

The Bible is quite prepared to talk about certain hope, which in English just doesn’t make any sense. We have this anticipation of the future. It’s still hope, but it is as certain as Christ’s tearing down the veil and entering into the very presence of God, and being accepted by him and all of his life and death on our behalf.