Once you have enrolled in God’s school of faith, you can expect to encounter some challenging tests along the way. The tests God allows us to face are demonstrations of our willingness to give Him highest priority in our lives, and to surrender to Him anything that we may treasure more than our relationship with Him.

Have you ever stopped to think that one way we are unique in creation is that God has given us the capacity to worship Him? When our worship is genuine, we come to God on His terms, humbly asking Him to help us see the world as He sees it, and to see ourselves as He sees us.

It takes a lot of strength to swim against the tide of our culture. But that is precisely what biblical marriage requires. God has a plan for marriage, and when we understand and live according to that plan, we will be in a right relationship with God and with our mate.

Gradualism is a frightening word. It refers to what happens when we move away from operating on the basis of the wisdom God provides for us. To combat gradualism, return to the blueprint God has given us that contains the instructions we need for victorious daily living.

One of the greatest challenges of our culture is that, as a people, we have lost our sense of the holiness of God. The solution: Don’t put God in a box! Draw near to Him, listen to Him, and invite Him to occupy the place He desires – and deserves - to have in your life.

Sometimes God’s grace comes to us in the form of discipline. If we fail to listen to God when He whispers to us in love, He may force us to listen when He shouts to us in discipline. But God is also in the business of forgiveness. When we return to Him, His amazing grace will restore us, heal us, and bless us for His service.

In times of crisis or indecision, we often struggle to know how or what to pray. During such moments, we can be confident that the Holy Spirit will come alongside us, interpret our circumstances, and take our petitions to our Heavenly Father. The Spirit prays what we would pray if we knew everything God knows.

It’s unfortunate, but true, that we don’t always keep the promises we make. But when God makes a promise, He always delivers! We can celebrate the fact that God kept His promise when He visited this world in time and space in the person of His Son, Jesus, who became flesh and blood and dwelt among us.

The life of Jesus is bracketed by two miracles: the Virgin Birth at Christmas and the Resurrection at Easter. In this insightful message, we discover how these two major prophecies are supported and understood from the parallel accounts of the genealogies of Jesus.

In a very real sense, the whole story of life is acted out in history on Mount Calvary. It was here, on what we refer to as Good Friday, that Jesus was crucified between two thieves. We learn from them that the way in which people respond to the message of the Cross determines their eternity for all of eternity.