God Will Provide

What does it mean to trust God to provide for me? The easy answer is that it means believing God will care for us. But what’s harder is living and acting confidently in the knowledge of God’s provision. Repeatedly in the Bible we see believers told to not just believe...

Love God with Your Mind

Loving God with our minds isn’t just feeling affection toward him. It’s meditating and engaging regularly with the Bible.  We do this by reading closely, reflecting on how different parts of Scripture fit together and asking questions as we read. Loving God with our...

Paying the Price

Because the nation of Judah was so unrepentant. Because God is holy, he cannot ignore sin. As it was, God had shown incredible patience toward them, even though they had repeatedly broken their covenant with him. Through the prophets God had repeatedly invited the...

Strength and Courage to Change

Courage is a basic virtue. What use is wisdom if you don’t have the courage to act wisely? What value is love if you don’t have the courage to love? What importance is truth if you don’t have the courage to speak it? What consequence is faith without the courage to...

Leading Our Children

Proverbs 22:6 New International Version 6 Start children off on the way they should go,     and even when they are old they will not turn from it. God calls parents to lead their children. He tells them that if they start off a child in the way they should go, when...