True friendship is a gift from God. Good friends are rare and require hard work. Are you prepared to make the investment of friendship so you can reap the fruit when you need it? If you already have that kind of friend, give thanks to the Giver.

As you develop an appetite for the things of God, you will lose your appetite for everything else.

Christmas proves God loves us relentlessly.

Jesus' return will mean everlasting peace on earth. All relationships will be restored ushering in perfect harmony. In the meantime, we live in a broken world filled with injustice. We long to make it right like John McClane, but we don't have the...

Because Jesus is coming back, we can experience lasting joy no matter what the world throws at us. Jesus is coming for us. We won't stay dead. Jesus will put everything right. What could possibly steal our joy? Just like the people of Whoville, we...

We prepare for Jesus' return by loving one another. Jesus' Kingdom is ruled by love, so we live in the present in light of the future. Scrooge shows us that life is found not in what we get, but in what we give. During this season of consumption,...

Jesus' return gives us hope for the future. Because Jesus will return, we know our lives have meaning (like George Bailey discovered). We know God uses our lives to impact others because God has an eternal purpose in this world that cannot be...

God strategically places people in our lives to serve his purposes. Jonathan and Michal protected David when Saul sought to kill him. God used them to serve his purpose to protect David's life. God places people in our lives to provide correction,...

God reserves the right to show favor to whomever he wants. Saul was jealous of David and afraid of David, because God displayed his power and grace to David in ways Saul longed to experience. So, Saul tried to punish David for stealing the limelight....

God prepares us for the work he assigns us. Though young and inexperienced in battle, God prepared David for the encounter with Goliath through David's work as a shepherd--protecting the flock from lions and bears through brute force. David learned...