DONT FACE TROUBLE ALONE Is anyone in trouble? Cry out to the Lord. You dont have to face trouble alone. For the Lord will answer those who call on His name. Yet, we often try to keep our trouble to ourselves. We say, I got this. When we know that we dont. Rather than turning

ARE YOU FULLY COMMITTED TO THE LORD? King Asa started well but finished poorly. Born in the line of David, king of Judah, he tore down the high places and Asherah poles, deposed his evil grandma, and overcame the million man army from Ethiopia with Gods help. Yet later in life, he trusted his accumulated

TRUSTING GODS GOOD PURPOSE FOR US Are you facing a time of difficulty and wondering where God is today? Have you gone through a time of suffering and questioning how God can possibly allow it, much less, use it? Or maybe youre filled with shame because of your past sins and poor choices and you

PRESENT SUFFERING COMPARED TO ETERNAL GLORY We have been given the Spirit of Christ to abide in us, so that we have help in the present and hope for the future. Yet our bodies, and indeed all creation, groans in this present age of sorrow and suffering, while we await this future glory. Yet the

NO CONDEMNATION IN JESUS The phrase those who belong to in the translation of this verse is actually much more simply stated in the original Greek. It is literally: Now no condemnation in Christ Jesus. But what does it mean to be in Christ? Certainly, it must mean to belong to Him. Yet, perhaps the

THE NEW WAY OF LIVING It is impossible to serve and please God by following a checklist. Legalism does not please God as it only reveals our unrighteousness and prideful hearts. For the harder we try to keep the law, the more the law reveals our shortcomings. But the new way of living is not

WAGES ARE EARNED BUT GIFTS ARE RECEIVED The word translated wages was used to denote a Roman soldiers pay during Pauls time. So, wages are earned. Since we are all sinners (Rom. 3:23), we have all earned death. Death is the just desert for a life of sin. This death is not only the death

GODS LOVE REVEALED Which is better love spoken or love shown? Yet, God has done both through Christ Jesus. For He is the Word, the Logos, the greatest and fullest communication of Gods love to us. He is love written in the flesh. Christ is Gods Word of love spoken to us. And Christ is

HOPING AGAINST HOPE When there was no physical or circumstantial reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping in Gods promise. As the KJV has it: Who against hope believed in hope. What is hope? It is the feeling of expectation that a desirable outcome will take place in the future. But Abraham had more than just

IS YOUR RECORD CLEARED? Paul quoted Davids psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, to support his explanation that being made right with God is not by works, but by faith alone. When we place our faith in Christ and receive forgiveness and salvation, His blood not only covers our sin, it washes it away. Our record is cleared.