God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 17 KNOWING GOD WILL GROW YOUR LOVE “I have made known to them Your name, and I will ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart John 16 JESUS IS BRINGING YOU EVERLASTING JOY “When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 15 JESUS WANTS TO GIVE YOU FRUIT THAT LASTS “You did not choose me, but I chose you ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 14 BECAUSE JESUS LIVES, YOU WILL, TOO “Yet a little while and the world will see me no ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 34 GOD WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR SHAME I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 33 GOD DELIVERS THOSE WHO HOPE IN HIM The king is not saved by his great army; a ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 13 JESUS WANTS YOU TO BE BLESSED “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 12 YOUR WORSHIP CAN BLESS THE WORLD Mary took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 11 SOMETIMES GOD DELAYS BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. So when ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 10 JESUS IS YOUR VOICE OF LIFE “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 9 JESUS IS YOUR VISION The man answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. One ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 32 GOD HAS A GREATER TREASURE FOR YOU Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 31 GOD HAS ABUNDANT GOODNESS FOR YOU Oh, how abundant is Your goodness, which You have stored up ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 8 THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE INDEED So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 7 SOMETIMES JESUS WORKS IN SECRET [Jesus said] “You go up to the feast. I am not going ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 6 JESUS HAS A DEEPER TRUTH FOR YOU The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 5 JESUS BRINGS ANSWERS IN UNEXPECTED WAYS One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 4 JESUS CROSSED BOUNDARIES TO LOVE YOU A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 30 GOD WANTS TO TURN YOUR WEEPING INTO WORSHIP You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; ...
TOPICS: autism, healing, hope, medicine, testimony
In Christ, FELLOWSHIP and “FOLLOWSHIP” are two sides of the same coin. If you would have fellowship with Christ, follow His teaching and commands. Once you have been in fellowship with Him, following Him will be the “new natural” desire of your heart. In Christ, we must always “follow our …
TOPICS: discipleship, fellowship, followship, heart
Do we only thank God for what He does or for who He is? “I will give to the Lord the thanks due to His righteousness.” -Psalm 7:17 It is natural and right to thank God for the good He has done for us. His actions on behalf of His …
TOPICS: character, Psalm 7, righteousness, thankfulness, thanks
Principles do no good if there’s no practical way to apply them. Have you discovered this? High-minded ideals may be nice to think about, but to really make a difference in our lives, they need to have some skin on and work in the real world. The last two posts …
TOPICS: glory, good deeds, good works, Matthew, salt of the earth, the surface and the substance
Should I do good deeds in public or in private? In response to a question about my message last week, called “The Surface and the Substance” (), I shared some thoughts yesterday about the importance of following Jesus’ command in Matthew 5:16, “let your light shine before others, so that …
TOPICS: glory, good deeds, good works, Matthew, salt of the earth, the surface and the substance
Don’t you just love it when the Bible contradicts itself? Now before you get upset (if you believe the Bible) or cheer (if you don’t), hear me out. A friend called me the other day with a question: “In your message yesterday you said we are supposed to do our …
TOPICS: glory, good deeds, good works, Matthew, salt of the earth, the surface and the substance
I am a child of God. I preach, but I am not first a preacher. I play and sing, but am not first a musician. Born in the U.S.A., but not first an American. Love, and am loved by a father, mother, two brothers and more, but am not first …
TOPICS: heirs, hope, identity, promises of God, sonship
“What does he know that I don’t?” David, the writer of Psalm 119, says, “How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.” (Psalm 119:103) Granted, there are some nice things in the Bible, but really, “sweeter than honey?” Here’s what David understands that we often miss …
TOPICS: bible, Good News, honey, Psalm 119, Psalms, scripture
Which is better, old or new? “Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” -Matthew 9:17 How easy it is in …
TOPICS: history, Matthew, newness, scripture notes, tradition, wine, wineskins
TOPICS: blessing, grace, hypocrisy, Matthew, poverty, sin
