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What God Does Not Promise Us
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.—Isaiah 55:8 It’s easy to cling to promises God never made. When life gets hard or our plans fall apart, we may feel let down by God—not because He failed to keep His Word, but because we expected Him to…
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Only Jesus: Nothing More, Nothing Less
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”—Acts 4:12 We live in a world of additions.Jesus and good works.Jesus and religious tradition.Jesus and political ideology.Jesus and self-help.Jesus and cultural approval.Jesus and… anything else. But the Gospel doesn’t need help.It…
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Earn All You Can, Save All You Can, Give All You Can: A Christian Vision for Money
“Gain all you can, without hurting either yourself or your neighbor, in soul or body, by applying with unintermitted diligence and with all the understanding which God has given you. Save all you can, by cutting off every expense which serves only to indulge foolish desire. And then, give all you can, or in other…
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I Have a Problem With You: Dealing With People and Sin in the Church
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.” —Matthew 18:15 The church is supposed to be the place where love abounds, grace is extended, and Christ is exalted. But if you’ve spent any time in church,…
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Maintaining Sexual Purity: A Sacred Call in a Compromised Culture
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor.” —1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 We live in a world where purity is mocked, temptation is monetized, and boundaries are blurred. In a culture that celebrates…
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The Lies We Believe, the Truth God Speaks
“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”—John 8:32 The enemy is not creative, but he is consistent.From the beginning of time, Satan has used the same strategy to bring people down: he lies. In the garden, he twisted God’s words. With Jesus, he quoted Scripture out of context. And today,…
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The Quiet Resentment of the Faithful
“Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” —Galatians 6:9 There’s a unique kind of fatigue that comes, not from failure, but from faithfulness. Not from rebellion, but from responsibility. It creeps in quietly, often beneath the surface, in…
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Take Responsibility for Your Life
“Each of you should test your own actions. Then you can take pride in yourself, without comparing yourself to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.” —Galatians 6:4–5 There comes a moment when we must stop blaming the world, our past, our parents, or even our pain—and take ownership of the life…
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Work the Ground
“Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”—Mark 4:8 Jesus often used agricultural imagery to reveal deep spiritual truths. One of His most well-known parables—the parable of the sower—describes a farmer scattering seed, which falls on different types of…
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I Have No Words
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” —Romans 8:26 (NIV) There are days when the weight is too heavy for language.Moments when the pain, confusion, or exhaustion steals the structure of…
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