You are responsible for the depth of your spiritual understanding. God is responsible for the breadth of your ministry.

An athlete knows that it takes years of training and practice in order to compete in the Olympics. Everyone knows that you must master the basics of a sport before you can play at a […]

Think about things that are worthy of praise, and then praise them.

You can think about yourself being truthful, and you can imagine objects of beauty. But what is it like to think of something or someone worthy of praise?
When you look at an object of beauty–say, a beautiful painting–do you give credit to the […]

Use your imagination to think about what God has prepared for you.
Your imagination is a gift from God. Your imagination allows you to think about images that are so real you think you can touch them, even though you have never seen them in person.
There is no image more worthy of your imagination than […]

The best way to keep your thoughts on God is to invite Him to control them.
Thought control has a negative connotation. None of us wants someone else to tell us what to think. During the Cold War, people talked about how the Communists were using propaganda and “thought control” to manipulate the citizenry. […]

If you expand the truth, your credibility contracts.
You know your shouldn’t lie, but there are many circumstances in life when the truth may seem irrelevant. Is absolute honesty required at all times? Are you obligated to limit your promises to the ones you actually intend to keep? Must you restrict your comments […]

Knowing God takes tremendous effort, but the reward is great.

Spiritual growth is not a matter of trying harder. You can’t force spirituality. You can’t make it happen. It comes as the result of training–developing habits of godliness that are pursued daily.
The spiritual disciplines of prayer and Bible reading are part of the […]

Having faith is essential to living, but having faith in God is essential to living forever.

Do you know that it’s possible to have faith in faith? We may not set out to trust in our belief, but that can easily happen. Here’s how it works. We start out in our spiritual lives […]

There is nothing you have that is of more interest to God than your love.

It’s impossible to love God as much as He loves us, because by His very nature, God is love. He doesn’t have to try to love us. He can do nothing else. On the other hand, our love […]

The Word of God heard from your mouth is more effective if it is also seen in your life.
When people heard Jesus teach, they were amazed. They had listened many times to the religious leaders who read the Scriptures and gave explanations that were dry, lifeless, and mostly irrelevant.
But Jesus’ manner of teaching was […]

If you’re going to compare yourself to anyone, compare yourself to Jesus.
The greatest person who ever walked the earth was Jesus. The life of Christ as told in the Bible truly is the Greatest Story Ever Told. Yet Jesus is more than a person, and His life is more than a story.
Jesus is […]