Have you ever been unable to find your shoes in the morning -- only to discover that one of your children is walking around the house in them? Just as our children often imitate what they see or hear in us, the Lord calls us to be imitators of Himself....

Anger leads to horrible results! Even in the first family upon earth, we find anger at work in Cain, against his brother Abel. The Apostle calls us, as redeemed children of God, to put off all such sinful anger. Anger starts internally, and then it...

The first three chapters of the Book of Ephesians teach us all about what the Lord Jesus has done in order to bestow His righteousness upon us. As a child of God, we are now called to live with eternity in view. However, we do not believe that Christ...

The Lord invites us to live our lives now as saved children. If we have been born again, He is at work within our hearts. He is renewing our minds. We are not required to "fix" ourselves; in fact, we never could do that, because we were dead in...

The Bible does teach us that there are times when we may exhibit a righteous anger. We find many examples of such anger in the Bible. Nehemiah became angry at the merchants who desecrated the Sabbath Day, and Jesus Himself was angry when He saw how the...

The Apostle Paul is calling us to put off falsehood, and to put on truth. But as we do this, Christ Jesus is to be our central focus; otherwise, we will merely become self-righteous moralists. We must fix our eyes on Jesus!"Put on the new man!" What...

The Lord God tells us to take off the "old man," and to put on the new. What was our “old man”? It was our former condition before the Lord Jesus saved us – a condition of ignorance, blindness, uncleanness, greed, and corruption. The philosophy of the...

What things are you afraid of in life? Perhaps it is your finances, or maybe your circumstances, or maybe even something that may be about to happen to your loved ones. There certainly are no shortages of things in this world to fear. How do we fight a...

What brings a beautiful relationship to the point of crumbling and divorce? Almost always, it is because one or both parties have lost their love for each other. Have we ever stopped to consider how we keep the flame of love alive in our relationship...