God is light. We are told this in the word. This means that God's people are to walk in the light and their relationship with the Lord should be seen in their life. There is a scary possibility brought up in what we will study this week in that...

John wastes no time as he opens this letter. Page open. Pen in hand. Let’s talk about Jesus!He will tell us that it’s this Jesus and our right understanding of Jesus that will lead to fellowship with God and with each other. And this fellowship leads...

Assurance brings peace.Assurance brings joy.Assurance brings rest.We are about to embark on a journey through a letter in our Bible with this stated purpose: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that...

Martha did what most of us would do if we were hosting Jesus... Martha said what most of us would say if no one was helping us... Martha asked Jesus what most of us would have asked Jesus, "Lord, don't you care that she isn't helping...

What comes to mind when you think of the word lament? We typically use the word in expressing sorrow or regret. For example, “I’m lamenting that I didn’t join them for the weekend retreat,” or “I lament the loss of our friendship.” However, lament is...

Growing up I was blessed with a wonderful father. He was a very nice man, loved Jesus (When he got saved around my teen years), and loved his family. While being the great man that he was, he also was a man that you did not want to mess with. He is...

In this life, we will always come across opposition or obstacles. And most of the time we anticipate this. But what do you do when you find that your opposition or obstacle isn’t going away? Or the breakthrough you have been asking the LORD...

Proverbs warns us that the fear of man is a snare in our life, and yet I think all of us have struggled at times with fearing man more than God or seeking man's approval above God's.  Some of us may even be controlled by the fear of...

When we think about blessings and the Lord we often think about how the Lord blesses us. What does it mean for us to bless the Lord? In the first line of Psalm 34, David writes, "I will bless the Lord at all times..." What does it mean to...

We are all scared of something. Come on, admit it. The toughest person who walks into church on Sunday is scared of something. Fear can manifest in our life as a subtle undercurrent of worry and anxiety or it can manifest as an ever-present crippling...