I'll Be Honest

God makes amazing and incredible promises to us in His Word. But do the promises of God towards His people resemble our present condition? And if they don't, does that cause us to give God no rest until He causes our circumstances to match what He has promised to us?

Are we willing to eliminate things in our lives that are displeasing to God? Are we willing to be rid of idols in our lives that are not only displeasing to God but are also greatly hurtful to us because they hinder the sweet communion that we would have with God?

Jesus Christ is the Christian’s foundation for having bold access to God. It is not our performance that allows us to come boldly before God, but the merits of Christ. Christians do not need to be full of fear and anxiety to come to God. Because of Christ, God welcomes them to come, even on their worst day.

Christian, sin didn't kill Jesus Christ for you. God (your Father) killed Jesus Christ for you.

An often overlooked ministry in the church is the ministry of encouragement. We need to be encouraged by other Christians, and other Christians also need to be encouraged by us. Our attempts of encouragement may not seem that influential, but we would be surprised at how greatly God can use them to help our fellow believers.

Our life is like an hourglass and the sand is sinking. Each grain is like a mercy and what are we doing with those mercies? If we don't run to Christ, those grains of mercy will turn into grains of wrath.

It's no mystery; one of the most heated controversies in our day is social justice. How should we as Christians view the world's concept of social justice?

The Christian is not someone who is trying to better themselves; the Christian is someone who has been recreated and made new. The new man is who the Christian is on the inside, and we need to clothe ourselves with him on the outside.

Sadly, we can love the idea of Jesus more than Jesus Himself. It's so easy to take our eyes off of Christ and put them on something else. But we must always remember that Christ must be first in every area of our lives.

The judgment of God is coming on this world, and rather than sending judgment with no warning, God is mercifully giving warnings of His coming judgment so that we can find refuge. And sadly, people interpret God’s delay of judgment to mean that there is no judgment to fear. Many people now mock and scoff when they hear of God’s judgment. But one day, the judgment they heard about so often will come, the scoffing and mocking will be silenced, and the opportunities of finding refuge will all be over. Do not scoff at God’s warnings.