What do you do when you become weary and feel you are about to faint or give up? Ask that question to people and you will get a variety of answers, but what does the Bible say? Hebrews 12:3 (ESV) — 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you […]

The importance of being diligent is seen throughout the Bible, but especially in the account where Jesus described the greatest commandment as He summed up the Ten Commandments this way: Mark 12:29–31 (ESV) — 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you […]

Have you ever found yourself daydreaming, when your mind wonders off and when startled you almost feel like you have been in REM sleep? It happens to all of us and often people who are seeking to be followers of Christ often let their mind drift and lose their focus on Christ and their determination […]

What do you do when you find yourself in the pit? Let’s face it, we all find ourselves in circumstances of sorrow, disappointment, fear, grief, or pain that the best way to describe the situation is calling it a pit. The psalmist David actually described coming out of the pit by the grace of God […]

There’s a great lesson with a promise in Hebrews 11, in which we find the example of faith in the life of Enoch which is followed by a promise and a challenge about faith. Hebrews 11:5–6 (ESV) — 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was […]

There’s a trap to which we easily fall prey when we follow the pattern of the majority of people around us. Like in the children’s story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” Goldilocks sought what was just right. The oatmeal was either too hot or too cold, the bed was either too hard or too […]

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 […]