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 […]

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 […]