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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...