It’s Not My Fault: Playing the Blame Game Blaming Others for Our Mistakes Comes from Our Sin Nature Jeremiah prophesies judgment against the people in Jerusalem for their idolatry. God has had enough, and he will punish them for turning from him...
We Need a Balanced Bible Perspective How We Read Scripture Influences Our View of God and Our Relationship with Him In a prior post I said that not all Scripture is the same. I placed the books of the Bible into eight groups. This formed a...
Jeremiah Issues Three Warnings to Church Leaders Beware of Slacking Shepherds, Godless Pastors, and Misleading Ministers The prophet Jeremiah doesn’t just warn the people about judgment for their sins, he also warns their religious leaders too...
Give Us Our Daily Bread Carefully Consider What You Ask of God Each Day When You Pray When Jesus’s disciples asked him to teach them how the pray, he gave them a prayer (Luke 11:1-4). Though many people recite this prayer exactly as the Bible...
How Content Are You with God’s Blessings? The Bible Tells Us to Live a Life of Contentment Though some people in our world struggle to have the basic requirements for life, many others enjoy an existence that meets all their needs and beyond...
Holy Trinity: The Great Three in One A commonality among most who call themselves Christian is the understanding of God as Trinity—the Holy Trinity— that is, a singular entity existing as three persons: Father, Son (Jesus), and Spirit. That is...
When You Give…Not If You Give Jesus Expects Us to Help Those in Need, But Are We? In Jesus’s engaging teaching that we call the Sermon on the Mount, he talks about giving to those in need. He says, “When you give . . . ” He doesn’t say, “If you...
Should You Be Part of a Spiritual Mastermind Group? Aligning with Like-Minded Peers Can Propel You Forward on Your Christian Walk A mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring alliance where members work together to help one another solve...
How Much of a Priority Do You Place on What the Bible Says? Most Christians Don’t Let Scripture Get in the Way of What They Believe I recently shared with some friends that “Most Christians won’t let the Bible get in the way of what they...
Tame the Tongue Be Careful What You Say Many people today—too many—feel they have a right to say whatever they want to say, whenever they want to say it. What they forget is that this privilege also comes with a responsibility to not say some...
