Free at last, my sins are forgiven! Thank God, I’m free at last … but what does this MEAN? Forgiveness of sin means I am ...
“… intent on one purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.” –Philippians 2:2b-3 ...
The difference between “worthy” and “entitled” is a willingness to do the work. A worthy person believes they are qualified to receive good things, and ...
My 5-year old daughter loves to find birds in our neighborhood and try to call them to come to her. “Tweet tweet” she says. “Tweet ...
Every new day is a new page, blank on one side and covered on the other with all that has come before. You cannot change ...
Have you ever had that moment where you stand on a scale to weigh yourself, see the numbers fluctuating, and try to *will* them to ...
I got lost at DFW International Airport when I was 6 years old. My father and I were there to pick up a family member, ...
“This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.” -1 John 5:4b God has shown you the pathway to ultimate victory, a salvation ...
On a bike ride with my family the other day, a black snake darted right across our path. Thankfully, we simply rolled on by and ...
There is so much sin, failure, and wrong in the lineage of Jesus recorded in Matthew 1 that you might think these people would be ...
This is my Easy Button, a desktop toy from Staples that added flare and fun to my working environment for many years. I’m throwing it ...
GREAT LEADERS know when to step up, and when to step down. They are ready to step in when needed, and willing to step aside ...
A couple of weeks ago, billionaire Jeff Bezos had a really, really important conversation with a 90-year old man that could have gone really, really ...
Did you hear Captain Kirk finally made it to space for real? Last week, 90-year-old William Shatner not only became the oldest person ever to ...
On September 11, 2001, I was working at the News-Press, our local paper. Like every other American, that morning I woke to a new world, ...
Plenty of people talk about the power of organic marketing and how simple it can be when done correctly. But if you do it wrong… ...
A few weeks ago I got sick and wondered what everyone does these days… “Is it Covid? It turns out it wasn’t, but… I was ...
It’s easy to assume the current way you’re working, living, and operating is just “the way things are.” Until you discover a better way. It’s ...
Remember when the whole world lost their mind over toilet paper? Stores couldn’t keep it in stock. People hoarded it and treated it like gold. ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Romans 3 GRACE WILL SET YOU FREE For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by …
TOPICS: faith, forgiveness, freedom, innocence, regret, Romans 3, salvation, shame, sin
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Romans 2 GOD WANTS TO FREE YOUR HEART For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by …
TOPICS: behavior, circumcision, clean hands, deliverance, family, freedom, grace, morality, obedience, pure heart, Romans 2, salvation
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Acts 16 GOD CHOSE YOU TO BE A DELIVERER About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. …
TOPICS: Acts 16, deliverance, evangelism, freedom, mission, purpose, redemption, rescue, witnessing
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Acts 15 GOD’S GRACE REMOVES YOUR BURDEN “…And [God] made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither …
TOPICS: Acts 15, freedom, holiness, liberation, repentance, salvation
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 39 ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE CAN SET YOU FREE RIGHT NOW I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my …
TOPICS: death, eternity, freedom, heaven, life, mortality, Psalm 39, truth
God’s Hope for Your Heart from John 18 JESUS IS YOUR PRISONER EXCHANGE [Pilate] went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in Him [Jesus]. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want …
TOPICS: atonement, freedom, John 18, salvation, substitution
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, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John …
TOPICS: abiding, belief, faithfulness, freedom, John 8, salvation, trust, truth
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Luke 21 EVEN THROUGH LOSS, GOD LOVES YOU And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left …
TOPICS: freedom, hope, idolatry, loss, Luke 21, pain, perspective, salvation, tragedy, trial
Scripture Notes on Luke 21 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be …
TOPICS: freedom, idolatry, loss, Luke 21, perspective, salvation, tragedy
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Luke 20 FREEDOM COMES FROM LETTING GO He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Luke 20:25) Have you ever found yourself trying to hold on to something that was never …
TOPICS: control, faith, freedom, Luke 20, perspective, surrender, trust
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