It’s easy to get stuck on things of this world. We see what is happening in the news and get depressed. We often focus on our own suffering and feel we wonder if there is any hope at all. Stop and look up. This world is not our home. There is more, in fact, much […]

We have all felt it: the pangs of disappointment, setback, or discouragement make us want to just run away. Some people do run from their problems, others find a “get-away” in drugs, alcohol, video games, or porn. Still others just shut down in depression. To hide from these feelings or to sit back and criticize […]

People have many descriptions of faith today. Sometimes faith is presented as some mysterious thing that you cannot see but you just feel. Wait a minute. Consider what the Bible says: Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) — 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is substantial and […]

Since there’s a default mode to which we all seem to resort – the mode of “works righteousness,” where we try to make ourselves acceptable to God, the matter of Christian liberty comes up over and again in the New Testament. Instead of living by a set of rules of what we can and cannot […]