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...

Friends Help in the Battle

It would be wonderful if our relationship with Jesus got rid of the allure of the darkness so prevalent in this world, but that won’t happen in this life. And whether it comes through the internet, television, wallet, tongue or stomach, most of us are intimately...

Action

Sometimes we fail to take action in our lives because we’re caught in a comfortable cycle. How often, for example, do we follow the crowd because it’s just easier than doing the right thing? We procrastinate because we’ve convinced ourselves that we’ll feel stronger...