Obeying Every Law
The entire law is summed up in one instruction: love your neighbor as you love yourself… Galatians 5:14 This oughta be a piece of cake!
Righteous Thinking
E. Stanley Jones once wrote, “It is easier to live yourself into right thinking than it is to think yourself into right living.” For us to be able to walk in righteousness, our goal needs to be set at a much higher target than merely right and wrong or good and evil. The map to righteousness can be found in […]
Applying the Blood
When the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had been in Egypt for 400 years, Yahweh sent a deliverer. The process of deliverance included slaughtering a lamb and smearing its blood over the doorpost of each home where someone lived who could believe the instructions Yahweh gave them through Moses. Just the shedding of the blood was not enough. It […]
Strong Because of Difficulties
A condition of drought causes some trees to stop producing hormones that cause stem or leaf or blossom growth, and focus on making hormones that make roots grow. It is a design from the Maker of the universe – tough times should be flipping switches in our lives that make us stronger drinkers from the fountain of Life. After that […]
The Right Way
It is a good thing to desire good doctrine. Truth is both valuable and powerful in many ways. Jesus is the Truth. He is also the Way and the Life. When you learn truth, it is easy to settle into a mode of amassing knowledge. Even if the knowledge is about Jesus, if it is only information, it might be […]
Worthy of Praise
Learn to worship when you are doing whatever you do that looks like what David was doing when he was out in the fields watching sheep do whatever they were doing. Talk to Jesus about how awesome He is, and what you like about Him. Tell Him some ways you want to be just like Him. Praise Him to the […]
Answering Sanballat
When the servant of a pagan king was called to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, he faced much accusation and attack from jealous enemies of Yahweh. The stereotypical adversaries Sanballat and Tobiah constantly worked to discourage Nehemiah and the Israeli builders who helped him in the wall project. Their false accusations, physical attacks, and traps were wasted on Nehemiah. He […]
Why Believe?
Please remind yourself what your reasons are for believing Jesus. Not just believing in Him, but as Paul wrote, “I know Whom I have believed…”, why you believe Him. Do it in several ways: What was the first convincing idea or experience or instruction that caused you to trust Him? What is the most pivotal encounter with Him you have […]
Being Righteous
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21 English Standard Version ©®) Not taking responsibility for the power and authority and righteousness that are parts of our identities when we become born again and then begin to mature is like […]
Parables
Why did Jesus teach in parables? Why are some of them still unexplained? When is the last time you asked Him to explain one? Every time His disciples asked Him to explain one, He did…