You were made for forever as surely as you were made for time.
Have you ever wondered why you think about forever? You don’t just think about tomorrow, or next week, or even next year. In your quiet moments of reflection, you think about a time beyond this time and beyond your life, and […]

Rather than worry about what you don’t know about God, concentrate on what you do know.
Humans are a curious bunch, and we’re also impatient, a combination that explains why we jump to conclusions so often. This is especially true of our relationship with God. There’s so much about Him that we don’t know, […]

When God gives us forgiveness, Satan gives us guilt.

There is a fine line between sorrow and guilt. Both emotions can spring from doing something wrong. But the consequences of those two emotions can be drastically different.
God wants you to be sorry when you have done something wrong. Sincere sorrow is part […]

God didn’t create eternity for you; He created you for eternity.
Did you know that you were made for eternity. That’s why you can’t help thinking about it. God literally created you so you could live forever. There’s only one problem. Sin got in the way. In effect, sin voided God’s […]

The character of God is not determined by your opinion of Him.

Some people form their beliefs about God based on their personal opinions. This is nothing more than gastro-intestinal theology (having a “gut feeling” about God). Unfortunately, gut feelings are usually the result of indigestion rather than divine inspiration.
God isn’t going to change […]

Others determine your reputation. You determine your character.

One of the the great debates of our time centers on character. Some people believe that it’s possible for a person to possess both a public and a private character, even if the two are very different. What you do in private, the reasoning goes, […]

No amount of money can match the value of God’s love or the price that was paid for your salvation.
Many people look to their own financial resources for their security. They believe they have to take care of themselves, so they devote all of their efforts to earning and saving money. At some […]

It’s better to see the circumstances of your life in the long run than the short-term.
When stuff you don’t like happens outside your control, you shouldn’t blame God, or worse, assume that He can’t do anything about it. God is always aware of what is happening to you, and He is never powerless to […]

Never mistake activity for achievement.
There is a principle of economics that goes something like this: If you lost money on every sale, you can’t make up for it in quantity. In other words, if your product is bad, it is not going to get better just because you make more of it.
Some people […]

It’s impossible to offer destructive criticism and love someone at the same time.
Whereas constructive criticism can be encouraging and helpful to others, most criticism is quite destructive. Destructive criticism attempts to deflect the attention from the real issue, which might be something as basic as jealousy. Destructive criticism takes the attention away from […]