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The Biggest Obstacle

The Biggest Obstacle

Most of us have faced an obstacle at some point in our journey of faith. In some cases, God may have removed the obstacle from your path or He may have given you grace to deal with it, but there’s one obstacle you can’t ignore or successfully work around for any length of time. The [...]

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Emotions & Obedience

Emotions & Obedience

We see in the book of Jonah the example of a prophet called and commissioned to speak to a nation on God’s behalf. It is not likely that Jonah had a history of disobedience. On the contrary, for God to call him to so great a task, Jonah had to have proven some faithfulness to [...]

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More Grace

More Grace

When God told the prophet Hosea to take a wife for himself, it wasn’t one of the noble daughters of the land that God had set aside for him, but a wife whose past was marked by so many degrading sins that no one would ever want her. She was a harlot, yet God selected [...]

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Get up and Run the Race

Get up and Run the Race

Many Christians believe that God can’t use them because of their sin. Somewhere they got the idea that God only uses perfect people to do His work. But the Bible is filled with people who made what many would consider fatal mistakes and were still used by God in powerful ways. And since there has [...]

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The Not-To-Do List

The Not-To-Do List

“‘I am so busy.’ We say this as a badge of honor, as if our exhaustion were a trophy and our ability to withstand seventy to eighty-hour workweeks a mark of real character. We convince ourselves that the busier we are, the more we are accomplishing and the more important we must be. But is [...]

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