In a world that applauds the dramatic and spectacular, we can find ourselves looking for an expression of our faith that will amazing and awe…and yet, the most powerful and most important act of faith we can use is neither of those.  We must begin with our words, learning the power within them, and learning…

Peter makes it clear as he begins his letter to the church…the patterns we developed before we knew Jesus are empty and they are not capable of producing the blessing God intends for us to experience in this life.  We still have these patterns at work in our lives, and with God’s help and His…

Our lives are filled with patterns…how we think, how we respond, how we live our lives day after day.  If those patterns are in line with God’s plan for our lives, they will produce life.  However, too often, we don’t recognize old patterns in our lives that keep leading us back to captivity, heartbreak and…

As Jesus died between two thieves, He was giving us power over the thief that dwells within each of us…that attitude that can creep into our heart that tries to make others responsible for our own lives.  Today, we can lock up that part of our old nature by overcoming the patterns of our own…

Jesus hung between two thieves who had entirely opposite reactions to Him.  The first one, in the moment that he is facing death, scorns and mocks Jesus…showing us that people can respond in weird ways when they are afraid and facing something unfamiliar.  Like this thief, we have to be so careful that we too…

We live in a culture that celebrates the attitude of thievery.  This “something for nothing” mindset can get into our hearts as believers, too…but it is absolutely the opposite approach that the Bible teaches us to take.  We are not to simply allow others to steal from us, nor are we to try to take…

There is really only one assignment Christians need to be concerned with…being as much like Jesus as we possibly can in the world that God has placed us in!  Oh, it sounds simply enough to understand, but it will cost us our lives if we are actually going to get that goal accomplished.  However, without…

It might be easier if followers of Jesus simply had His name tattooed on our foreheads, but Jesus has a better idea.  There is one, undeniable sign that we are indeed His disciples, that we have adopted His values, and that we are led by the same Spirit that Jesus Himself relied upon…and it has…

In our focus to develop a personal relationship with God through Jesus, we may fail to identify what the Bible teaches us about our walk with God.  We are not going to be able to walk in all God has prepared for us alone.  We won’t mature fully, and we won’t accomplish the mission of…

Driven by desire usually means one thing to people…sex.  The unfortunate challenge with this very narrow definition of desire is that it stops most of God’s family from being motivated into action for hundreds of noble and God-honoring things.  Rather than demonizing desire, let God restore it so that we can about our Father’s business…