You don’t have real passion for God unless you have compassion for people.
Sometimes we focus so much on God that we forget about other people. Somehow we get confused and think that a relationship with God only involves the spiritual realm and has nothing to do with the “real world.” But that is […]

Anything within the scope of your responsibility will decay without your attention.
There’s a great principle of the natural world everyone needs to know. It’s called the Law of Entropy, and it goes like this: Over time, things naturally lose energy, decay, or more from order to disorder. To illustrate this principle, picture […]

It’s one thing to have faith, and another matter entirely to act upon your faith.
Your faith becomes meaningful to you and effective for your salvation only when you have faith in God. But what if you never act on that faith? How meaningful and effective is it then? Look at it this way. […]

Something becomes meaningful when it goes from your head to your heart to your hands.

Most people think about doing good stuff, and some even have a burden to give their time and resources to something significant. But thinking about something and having a passion for something doesn’t mean a thing until you actually go […]

Find your self-worth in God’s unconditional love for you, not in your accomplishments.

Our society holds “self-esteem” in great esteem. We want everyone to have a strong self-image. Even the smallest accomplishments are praised at home, at school, and on the job so that everyone has a sense of self-worth. Criticism and competition […]

The best things to pray about are the things that you care about.
You have a lot going on in your life, including problems, needs, and big decisions. God wants to be included in all of it, but that can happen only through prayer. Prayer is simply talking with God, but sometimes it’s hard […]

God doesn’t need your money, but you need to give your money to God.
There is a good barometer for telling how you feel about God: money. This isn’t about how much you give. God is more interested in your attitude about giving than the amount you give. Your attitude about money […]

A decision is meaningless unless commitment follows.
We all make a hundred decisions a day, but our commitments are few and far between. That’s because it’s much harder to commit to do something than it is to decide to do something. Take your relationship with God as an example. At some point in […]

The love of God has no limits.
Human love is conditional. Whether we’re dealing with a friendship or a marriage, our commitments will only go so far. Friendships fail and marriages end in divorce because one can no longer tolerate the other.
But God’s love is unconditional. He loved us before we were even […]

Even God took a day off. What makes you think you don’t have to?

In the Old Testament, the Sabbath simply referred to the seventh day of the week. This was an important observance, because “God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from his […]