People have always been interested in stars. God uses the vision of their multitudes to illustrate for Abraham the promise of his descendants when he was yet childless. Imbedded in this picture was the promise of the coming Messiah-Savior, Jesus. A...

A significant social fear is that someone will judge you. Christians are frequently judged as being judgmental. There is only One qualified to fairly and accurately judge, and that is God Himself. Jesus will come again to judge the living and the...

Jesus is coming again! We don’t know when, but that event is getting closer. In fact, it has never been closer than today. The clock is ticking. Most of the signs that the end is near that Jesus talked about have happened or are happening. We are...

“If you want it, you have to work for it.” That’s the conventional wisdom. You put in the effort and you get the reward. It conforms to the earthly equations. The more you put in the more you get out. However this is wrong when your goal is...

“If you want it, you have to work for it.” That’s the conventional wisdom. You put in the effort and you get the reward. It conforms to the earthly equations. The more you put in the more you get out. However this is wrong when your goal is eternal salvation. You don’t work your way there. The Bible is totally clear that it is not by anything we do or accomplish or earn. Nowhere is it more clear than in Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is a gift of God, not a result of works so that no one may boast.” It is the polar opposite of conventional wisdom.

Faith is a complete reliance on a sure, reliable and totally firm object. In fact, faith is not blind nor is it risky. That’s because the object of a Christian’s faith is God. Take that a step farther and higher. Christian faith is where we cling...

People have said “That sounds too good to be true” several times when sharing the great news we have in Jesus Christ. It sounded too good to the hearer to be factually true that God would completely forgive. That’s grace. Grace is the greatest...

People have said “That sounds too good to be true” several times when sharing the great news we have in Jesus Christ. It sounded too good to the hearer to be factually true that God would completely forgive. That’s grace. Grace is the greatest good news anyone will ever hear, and it is the most life-transforming truth one can ever know. Accepting the grace that’s offered in Jesus is a liberating event. What it’s all about is that “Jesus paid a debt He did not owe for us who owed a debt we could not pay.” That’s grace! Grace is a gift, unearned and not deserved. We can receive it, use it all and yet have it all. We can give it all away and have even more than before.

Saul had been the Poster Boy of anti-Christianity. He had a big case of “Christophobia.” But God loved Saul (later named Paul) more than Saul hated God. God did whatever it took to bring Saul to conversion. So, on the Road to Damascus there was a...

In some religious circles the word "Saint" technically means a person we are sure is in heaven. In a popular sense, a saint is someone self-righteous, prudish and sanctimonious. Biblically, saints are people who are declared “holy” by the grace...