Philippians 2.21 observes everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Humanity is created by God to serve God and to live with God forever. Simple to understand largely ignored.
If there really is God it only makes sense that He would be our Creator. If we are created then it only makes sense it is to serve the Creator. (more…)
Matthew 6.8 reminds us your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
One of the foundational beliefs about God is that He knows everything. If He didn’t know everything how could He really be God, goes the logic.
God confirms this suspicion when He reminds us that He already knows what we need before we ask Him in His teaching on prayer. This information seems counterproductive to encouraging prayer. (more…)
Ephesians 5:1-2 commands we become imitators of God, by walking in love.
Love is so hard and yet so easy. It is so hard to love others but so easy to love ourselves.
God is love. He loves everyone.
This belief is unique to Christianity and not shared by Muslims or Hindus. This is why they can murder mindlessly and keep people in oppressive Castes. (more…)
Ephesians 1:19 promises His incomparably great power for us who believe.
Power, most everyone wants it but few have ever managed having it well.
God promises power to His people, at least that is what the Apostle prays God’s church would know and understand.
The power God wants His people to experience is the same power that God exhibited when He raised Himself in Jesus from the dead. What is His power for? (more…)
Galatians 5.1 declares it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Freedom to the Apostle, to God, does
not mean the same thing as we use the word freedom to mean.
We use freedom to mean doing anything we want without constraint. This was the freedom our forefathers wanted when they rebelled against God because they didn’t want to submit to His one limitation for their lives.
We continue to want this freedom over our lives; no rules, no constraint, no God. (more…)
2 Corinthians 10:5 proclaims we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against
the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
We are in a war.
This war has been occurring since one man and one woman began living together in the perfect environment of Eden. This war is the war of ideas, the war of truth and lies, the war of trust leading to obedience or doubt leading to self preservation. (more…)
2 Samuel 14.14 observes, like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, He devises ways so that a banished person does not remain
banished from Him.
What a great description of God.
This description is not found in any other record book about God except the Bible. The Muslims don’t record such a description. The Hindus don’t record such a description. No other book records that God does not desire human death but devises ways to restore people to Him forever.
So why do people die? (more…)
2 Corinthians 3:18 expects we all, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory,
which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
We were made by God for God to serve God. It takes a degree of humility on our part to accept this reality. If there is a God, and we are not Him, then we must be the creation and He the Creator.
If we are the creation then we are subject to the will of the Creator. The Bible declares the will of the Creator to be all of His creation glorify Him. (more…)
Ezekiel 11.19 promises I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove
from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
The purpose of religion is to make people better so that they can appease God and get along with one another better. It doesn’t work. (more…)
Psalm 66.20 describes God, Who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me!
All Christians should go see the movie War Room. It is both a challenge and encouragement in the areas of prayer, marriage, parenting and priority.
The question gets asked in the movie about the priority of prayer in a professing Christian’s life. The character admits to not spending much time in that discipline. Most of us would probably echo that sentiment. (more…)
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