When your inner self-speech is filled with accusation and condemnation, it is caustic and corrosive to your soul.  Instead, let God’s Spirit dictate your inner monologue.  His thoughts about you are life-giving, life-strengthening, life-expanding!

Guilt and shame are not from your heavenly Father.  Neither are condemnation or accusation.  But sadly, these are the common feelings in the life of a disciple struggling to live and love like Jesus.  But they are not from God...

As we become more like Christ, we don’t just dissolve into carbon copies of Him...  In Him, we become more fully and completely and perfectly ourselves that He intended us to be – individually, specifically, reflecting the character of Jesus in the unique lives He has given us.

Here are 6 practical strategies for safe-guarding your marriage against developing any kind of extra-marital romance...

God’s best for us is not that we see how perilously close we can get to sin - without technically sinning.  Our goal should not be to remain just technically pure.  The question should be, “How close to Jesus can I be?” And this goes for every issue in life, not just a dating relationship...

The Holy Spirit of God gives life first to our BEING, and then to our DOING.  I think this can be one of the most challenging and difficult aspects of Christian living.  It’s not that our spiritual activities don’t matter.  What we do as Christians is quite important.  The point is this, though: what we do is secondary to WHO WE ARE.  Our identity as God’s beloved, redeemed, adopted children - into whom He has poured His own Spirit! - is primary.  Then, our doing can (and should!) flow out of our being.

We’ve spent several episodes talking about Bible memorization – the importance of it, how our brains are wired for memorization, tips for how to actually memorize Scripture.  Today, I want to talk about the WHY, and I want to let God’s Word speak for itself as to why it is so vital to memorize it...

The human mind has an incredible capacity for memory.  We remember song lyrics, birthdays, phone numbers, cooking recipes, faces, names, TV show theme songs, movie quotes – it goes on and on – and we want to leverage that same ability to memorize God’s Word. 

Today’s episode of Practical Faith is directed toward couples, whether married, engaged, or dating.  I want to share with you a simple plan for daily devotions together with your spouse, fiancé, or gf/bf.

I met with a lot of frustrations in my spiritual journey in that first year after I fully committed my life to Christ.  But then I began to experience extraordinary life change and tremendous spiritual growth once I started memorizing Scripture. Jesus teaches us in the story from Matthew 12 that when you remove the bad from your life, you have to put good right there in its place, or else the bad will come rushing back in to fill the void with even more detrimental force than it had when it left!