Effectual & Ineffectual Prayers
Effectual & Ineffectual Prayers
The Bible encourages us to pray, and even when our prayers are ineffectual we shouldn't be discouraged because God uses them.
Live So As To Be Missed
Live So As To Be Missed
We should live our lives in such a way that we'll be missed when we're gone. The people who will be missed when they're gone are the people who gave and served the most.
The Salvaging Response & Sovereign Rights of God
The Salvaging Response & Sovereign Rights of God
Does God only decree only what He desires? Does God decree things He doesn't desire? Does God desire things He doesn't decree?
Speaking Like No Other
Speaking Like No Other
Another garment of the old man that we need to put off is rotten, corrupt language. Our tongue can do tremendous good or unspeakable evil.
Transformation For Proclamation (Part 4)
Transformation For Proclamation (Part 4)
God is a King and He has transformed us to be His ambassadors. We are representatives of God with an authoritative message to proclaim to this world.
Takers and Givers: Stop Stealing, Start Giving
Takers and Givers: Stop Stealing, Start Giving
We are called to put on the new man, and another essential quality that characterizes the new man is to be a giver and not a taker. We need to put off stealing; but it is not enough to stop stealing, we need to also start giving.
Transformation Through Tribulation (Part 3)
Transformation Through Tribulation (Part 3)
We are saved by faith and much is said by Christians about faith. But the true, infallible test of the reality of faith is how it responds when it is tested.
Dealing With Idols That Creep Into our Lives
Dealing With Idols That Creep Into our Lives
What should we do about idols that creep into our lives and hinder our walk? We live in a generation where distractions from technology are at an all-time high...
Do Not Conform to the World’s View of Social Justice
Do Not Conform to the World’s View of Social Justice
It is no mystery; one of the most heated controversies in our day is social justice. How should we as Christians view the world's concept of social justice?
Transformation Produces Separation
Transformation Produces Separation
For us to be transformed into the image of Christ, one essential factor is that we don't conform to this world. We can't let the world define terms and morality for us; we have to renew our minds according to how God defines terms.
The Foundation of a Transformed Life
The Foundation of a Transformed Life
If you are a Christian, your life is one of continual transformation into the image of Christ. But if we are to be transformed, we need to know the foundation of that transformation. If we fail to understand the found...
Good Anger & Bad Anger
Good Anger & Bad Anger
Christians have been recreated in the likeness of God, and one of God's attributes that we're actually called to have is anger.
Why Do People Lie? They Love Themselves
Why Do People Lie? They Love Themselves
And why do people lie? You don't have to think too hard about it. It's not rocket science here. If you want to boil it down, it comes down to this - it comes down to this desire: Man loves himself. It's selfish what's...
Put Off Lying & Falsehood
Put Off Lying & Falsehood
The Bible calls us to put off the old man with his practices, and one practice, in particular, is lying. Interestingly, one of the reasons Paul tells us to put off lying is because we are members of one another.
The Christian is a New Man
The Christian is a New Man
The Christian is not someone who is trying to better themselves; the Christian is someone who has been recreated and made new.
Abiding in Christ
Abiding in Christ
Jesus Christ is the True Vine for us to abide in and bear fruit. Fruit doesn't earn us salvation, but it is the infallible proof that our faith is genuine.
Be Renewed in the Spirit of Your Mind
Be Renewed in the Spirit of Your Mind
So much of the Christian life consists of the mind being renewed and working properly. We must not settle for mere outward imitation and external conformity; we must be renewed in the spirit of our minds.
Give God No Rest
Give God No Rest
God makes amazing and incredible promises to us in His Word. But do the promises of God towards His people resemble our present condition?
Should I Only Marry a Virgin?
Should I Only Marry a Virgin?
Is it an unreasonable standard to want to marry someone only if they are a virgin? Should their immoral past be more important than their present godliness?
What is the “Old Man”?
What is the “Old Man”?
What does the Bible mean when it talks about the "old man"? Do we still have the old man? Is the old man completely gone? Is there a tension or balance between the two?
The LORD Regretted That He Had Made Man?
The LORD Regretted That He Had Made Man?
Genesis 6:6 - And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
The Worth of One Sinner
The Worth of One Sinner
Many "churches" are impressed by big numbers, but Jesus is concerned about the individual. Christ considers one sinner worth dying for...
Crushing Idols and Communing With God
Crushing Idols and Communing With God
Are willing to eliminate things in our lives that are displeasing to God? Are we willing to be rid of idols in our lives that are not only displeasing...
The Seed of the Woman & The Serpent
The Seed of the Woman & The Serpent
A major theme in the Bible is the battle between Christ and the Devil. We see this promised from the very beginning in Genesis 3. Because of the Fall...