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Some will live their entire lives without understanding the epic battle we are caught up in…the battle between good and evil.  As the children of God, we have a pivotal role to play in this battle for God's will to be accomplished in our lives, but first, we might need to understand where all this…

Community is God's idea and we are hard-wired by heaven to connect…so why don't we?  There are forces relentlessly at work to keep us isolated, to make certain that we do not develop the life-giving power of real unity.  So, let's understand why we are in a fight, and learn to do what we must…

We don't see ourselves the way others do, so having others who love us and want to see us become who God is calling us into is essential.  This powerful benefit of community may be uncomfortable at first, because it is unfamiliar…and has often been done incorrectly.  However, when “iron sharpens iron” Biblically, everyone wins!

In the last moments of His time with His disciples, Jesus gives them an assignment.  In His absence, He asks them to love one another in the way that Jesus had extended love to them.  Sounds simple, right?  The truth is it is impossible…without the help of the Holy Spirit.  It is, however, what we…

It is impossible to read the New Testament without hearing Jesus or the men who led the Church after He returned to heaven speak about our connection to the family of God, the Body of Christ, or the Kingdom of Heaven.  Why?  Because, this is the other part of the redemptive work of Jesus…restoring community…

Houses are built to withstand the elements of nature…but if they're built on a poor foundation, they won't keep standing.  As Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount, his final message is clear to us.  To experience the life we are called to enjoy as His followers, we have to put His words into practice…

There is information everywhere, but not all of it is good, or even true.  Regrettably, there is fake news in the church, too, but Jesus us clearly how to recognize those who are speaking truthfully, and those who have an alternative agenda.  We all are going to be known by our fruits…not the works we…

It's tough to be called a hypocrite, but it's really difficult when Jesus is the one pointing out our hypocrisy.  As He confronts the religious attitude of His day (and ours, as well), He calls us to examine our motivation and ability to help others when our own lives are a hot mess and incomplete. …

We live in a critical world that has become more and more vocal about expressing that criticism to everyone, even perfect strangers.  As God's people, we have to make certain that we don't fall into this dangerous and destructive practice.  In the midst of all this random judgment, the voice of Jesus calls to us…”Do…

We are so aware of our limitations, our frailty and our ability to mess things up.  God, however, has a different way He looks at us.  He knows that we have the right stuff within us to carry out His perfect plan for our lives.  When we get stuck in our old alias, it's important…

Breaking the power of a fake identity over our lives begins by recognizing that we are given a new name.  This new name is not just a label given to help identify us to others.  It declares the nature and character that we were created by God to fulfill.  In fact, we are called to…

It happens everywhere people gather…the classroom, the workplace…even in church.  People call other people names, they create labels, and they assign an assumed identity for us that is not true.  If we're not careful, we will let the identity God gave us be replaced with an identity crafted for us by the cruel and callous…

There is an attitude we confront in our hearts that excuses us from becoming all that God has called us to be…the mindset that He will use someone else.  However, this belief cripples the Body of Christ, with too few people being who Jesus died for us to be. We must not allow our lives…

Psychologists confirm that human beings have no emotion to handle betrayal.  Those whose heart is betrayed usually hover back and forth between anger and sadness.  In her powerful story of restoration, Melissa Stevens brings hope to those who have ever been deeply betrayed.  Out of the ashes of broken relationship, God desires to create something…

All of us face challenges in this life.  Some face them as a one time experience.  Others were born into a challenge, and yet, through God's faithfulness they are delivered.  Gerome Crayton was born with a difficult and humiliating physical challenge that dominated his life until he was twelve, but overcoming that challenge has shaped…

No one wants to hear a doctor say “You have cancer,” and yet that is exactly what Bev was told many years ago.  Listen and be encouraged as you hear Bev's powerful testimony of God's power at work in her body, to restore health to her and to make her whole.  Your story may not…

The challenge of embracing our own truth, relying on our own efforts and living our own lives is that we as human beings are limited.  We only know what we know, and we only can do what we can do.  God has always intended on being in close relationship with us so that when we…

Christians lose sight of the spiritual battle that is raging all around us.  The danger of ignoring the warfare around us can be devastating as it destroys our relationships, limits our freedom and hinders the call of God on our lives.  Jesus has already secured the victory we desire, so let's step up, enforce His…

Emotions are amazing when they are used in the way God created them to be used.   They were, however, never intended to be what leads our lives.  When we start following our emotions, we will soon find our lives in difficult and destructive places.  We have to learn to let emotions simply be what God…

In a world that applauds the dramatic and spectacular, we can find ourselves looking for an expression of our faith that will amazing and awe…and yet, the most powerful and most important act of faith we can use is neither of those.  We must begin with our words, learning the power within them, and learning…

Peter makes it clear as he begins his letter to the church…the patterns we developed before we knew Jesus are empty and they are not capable of producing the blessing God intends for us to experience in this life.  We still have these patterns at work in our lives, and with God's help and His…

As Jesus died between two thieves, He was giving us power over the thief that dwells within each of us…that attitude that can creep into our heart that tries to make others responsible for our own lives.  Today, we can lock up that part of our old nature by overcoming the patterns of our own…

Jesus hung between two thieves who had entirely opposite reactions to Him.  The first one, in the moment that he is facing death, scorns and mocks Jesus…showing us that people can respond in weird ways when they are afraid and facing something unfamiliar.  Like this thief, we have to be so careful that we too…

We live in a culture that celebrates the attitude of thievery.  This “something for nothing” mindset can get into our hearts as believers, too…but it is absolutely the opposite approach that the Bible teaches us to take.  We are not to simply allow others to steal from us, nor are we to try to take…

There is really only one assignment Christians need to be concerned with…being as much like Jesus as we possibly can in the world that God has placed us in!  Oh, it sounds simply enough to understand, but it will cost us our lives if we are actually going to get that goal accomplished.  However, without…

It might be easier if followers of Jesus simply had His name tattooed on our foreheads, but Jesus has a better idea.  There is one, undeniable sign that we are indeed His disciples, that we have adopted His values, and that we are led by the same Spirit that Jesus Himself relied upon…and it has…

In our focus to develop a personal relationship with God through Jesus, we may fail to identify what the Bible teaches us about our walk with God.  We are not going to be able to walk in all God has prepared for us alone.  We won't mature fully, and we won't accomplish the mission of…

Jesus has left us with a massive assignment: to complete the work He started for our generation.  The exceptional news is that He not only gave us His mission, He has also given us His Name, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God to assist us as we live our lives with His presence…

As Jesus gets closer to the end of His ministry on Earth, His message becomes more and more direct…and the parable that begins in Matthew 22 is a great example of this.  The message is clear.  Not everyone who has been invited to experience a relationship with God will do so. So, let's accept that…

Those without Jesus determine the value of others based on things that are seen externally.  This even happens in the church, but God has called us to look beyond the external to see the portion of His presence deposited in each believer when they received Jesus.  This is our true identity, and it is hidden…

It's hard for us to understand the culture that Jesus and Paul were a part of when the Bible was recorded…and so much of what is communicated means far more than what we casually assume. No where is this more profoundly seen than in the story of redemption, of Jesus giving His life in exchange…

There are so many stories recorded for us in the Bible about those who trusted God and saw their crazy faith rewarded with astonishing results.  How unexpected is it that some of the best lessons on walking in faith come from the life of a man who wasn't a believer, who wasn't a follower of…

There is a reason that Abraham is called the father of our faith.  As his story begins in Genesis 12, we are introduced to a man who just believes.  Can we even understand how rare this is for people, to simply believe.  As he responds in obedience to the request God made of him, he…

Naturally, all of us want God to answer our requests as soon as possible, but what happens to our faith when it takes a little longer than we originally planned…like maybe, forty five years longer.  Well, fortunately for us, Caleb's story gives us the perfect roadmap of enduring faith, and its victorious outcome.  It's not…

The Bible is filled with people who had crazy faith…faith that didn't see impossibilities, but rather, faith built in the relationship they shared with their amazing God.  Daniel had three crazy friends who had faith that definitely registers on the crazy scale.  The lesson of their lives is clear…our faith is in the God we…

The Father is revealed to us through Jesus, loves us through instruction, protects us and provides for us…but ultimately, He simply wants to have an intimate relationship with us.  As we know Him, we can imitate Him and show His character and nature to the world around us.  The fatherless world around us is desperate…

People may cry out for God's protection more than any other thing…and God wants us safe.  His protection, however, doesn't always look like keeping us comfortable in our quiet little lives.  Instead, He is busy making certain that the eternal parts of us are kept intact, and in doing so, our physical safety is going…

The Bible teaches us one of the most powerful, yet most rare and elusive experiences known to mankind…unity.  Whatever relationship we share with others, our lives can be greatly expanded and improved when we walk through it together…not just in close proximity, but with a shared heart, shared mind, shared purpose and a shared future. …

The ability to propel us into our future, and the future of upcoming generations, is one of the greatest attributes of a God given dream.  Our founding fathers had a dream that we have the privilege of walking in…and God has even greater dreams for our lives personally, and collectively as His people…if we will…

Jesus made it clear…knowing truth produces freedom, but how do we found truth in a world riddled with lies and deception?  We have to become determined to fight for truth, to embrace it as it becomes clear, and then to allow it to produce the freedom we were born to enjoy.  Let's become aware of…

As we celebrate 245 years of independence, one thing is clear…for our country to remain strong and free, we cannot rely on any one person, one political party or group, or any major event or influence to insure our independence.  The answer is and always has been to become one nation UNDER God's authority, and…

Jesus ended His first sermon to the masses with a parable…our lives are built on rock when we do what God has instructed us to do.  Of course, we can also ignore God's words to us, and build ourselves a castle of sand.  The outcome in life is very different for these two lives.  For…

Jesus offers us the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and we treat His offer as one of the most insignificant things ever given to mankind.  His invitation is to understand HOW the spiritual realm operates, and thankfully, the offer still remains available for us today if we will respond to it.  Don't miss the…

We've spent our whole lives trying to figure out other people by looking at their exterior.  Is it any surprise that we forget Who lives on the inside of us?  Every day, our choices, our attitudes and our responses to others should reflect the Holy Spirit in us, rather than our natural, often very broken…

Our walk with Jesus is all about laying down what we were for who He is calling us to become…and that includes how we think.  All of us have places in our lives where we learned the wrong thing, accepted something false as truth or experienced something tough that we now think is how life…

There’s nothing quite like the adventure of a road trip…the freedom, the conversation, the changing scenery, the snacks!!  There are also powerful comparisons between a road trip and the companionship that Jesus wants us to have with Him.  So, as we head into summer, let’s consider the opportunity to build real adventure in our walk…

The life we are called to experience with God is so much greater than the life we can live on our own, and it requires God’s supernatural high performance fuel to produce it in us.  Don’t worry, this fuel is more available to us than some may think, and it will absolutely change how we…