3 Factors Related to Believing God for the Impossible: Confidence in God’s Promises, Confirmation by God’s Past Activity, Encouragement from other People.

What do we do while we wait on God? Trust in God’s Word, Trust in God’s Timing. Continue in the Discipline of Prayer. Trust in God’s Answer.

We must display complete submission. We must determine to have constant sensitivity. We must trust God’s continual sovereignty. We must expect God’s climactic salvation.

The famed preacher of another generation, C.H. Spurgeon, said of this Psalm, “It’s the shortest Psalm, but take the longest to learn.” Indeed it takes a long time to learn how not to be proud or haughty, how not to get involved with things that are...

Four Benefits of Continual Celebration: Joy, Remembrance, Perspective, and it Prompts Service

In October of 2002, truck driver Ron Lantz, like most of the rest of the country, had heard about the Washington, D.C. snipers—two lunatics who were wreaking havoc in the D.C. area by murdering people in sniper like fashion. In three weeks time, they...

I stand amazed at God’s presence—a problem solved, a fear confronted, a relationship healed, a sinner repenting. We marvel at the presence and activity of God in these circumstances. More than His presence, I sometimes wonder about God’s absence—or...

Yesterday, our state re-elected Bobby Jindal as our governor. So far as governor elections go in the State of Louisiana, this election was hardly noticeable. I think all will agree that our state has had some pretty interesting elections. One of my...

I read somewhere this week that a person can love the church without loving Jesus, but it is virtually impossible to love Jesus and not love the Church. This piece simply serves to remind us that we need a place to figure out the important...

You never know who may need to be encouraged. In the Library of Congress, there is a box that contains the items found in Abraham Lincoln’s pockets on the evening of his assassination. Among other things, there were nine newspaper clippings mostly...