Category: Spiritual Growth
Finishing Well
“Cease listening, my son, to discipline, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.” (Proverbs 19:27) No man, save Christ, is perfect. But what makes men and women great is a teachable spirit over a lifetime. A man who decides he knows it all or...
Finding Help at the Throne of Grace
Do you have a significant need that has not been met, or an urgent prayer that hasn’t been answered? If so, I’m right there with you—and I bring good news. God has made provision for such times: “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the...
Faith-Sized Requests
Few things are as fixed as mountains. But, on the day after Jesus cursed the fig tree, He declared that they can be moved. “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’...
Faithfulness in Little Things
I once met a man who was a construction worker by trade. Before he married, his wife-to-be promised that she would prepare a hot meal for him to take to work—every morning. No peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bag chips for this man. He...
Entertainment and the Deeds of Darkness
We all bump into the question often enough. How are we going to entertain ourselves tonight? You may wish that you bumped into it more often, especially if you have young kids. Whatever the circumstances, we all entrust a good portion of our total life span...
Devotional Dullness: Activity or Atrophy?
Are you a morally sloppy Christian? That is, are you less zealous than you should be about the pursuit of true holiness? Would it be difficult for you to honestly say that you “hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Matt. 5:6)? If so, I would like to...
Doe The Nexte Thynge
God may someday call you to a very difficult ministry. The challenge may be so immense that months, and maybe years, of preparation will be required. Maybe He will send you to an unreached people group. Perhaps he will have you become a foster parent. He...
Do Our Prayers for Missionaries Really Matter?
A man once spent twenty minutes and twenty seconds of his life one day looking at two different emails. The first email was from a local store that shared all of its weekly deals. He studied it in detail, not only hoping to find a great...
Disinterestedness: The Man Whose Funeral Was Cancelled Twice
Disinterestedness. This compelling word is not about what you might expect. We have all seen (and been) the disinterested student, expressionless, gazing into some unknown blank space outside the classroom, waiting out the final eternal moments of the professor’s pedantic, sleep-inducing hum. That describes a use...
Beware of Study Bibles
I like resources that help me understand the Bible. My collection of commentaries grows yearly. The amount of books I own addressing various areas of theology numbers in the hundreds. There are a couple of websites that I visit regularly where numerous Bible study tools are...
