Salvation Is a Gift—But It Calls You to Live Differently Not Everyone Will Receive the Truth I recently heard about a man arguing with a believer who was trying to tell him about Jesus Christ. He dismissed hell completely and insisted that all “good people” go to heaven. Salvation—and the price Jesus Christ paid for it—meant nothing to him. And the truth is, we’re going to run into people like that. People who are set in their own thinking, convinced their opinions outweigh

Everyone that is presently in your life can’t go where God is taking you. This is a simple truth, but it is very challenging for some people to accept. It’s a fact of life that we become very comfortable with things the way they are; we’re not big fans of change. We’ve fostered relationships over the years, and we don’t want to accept the reality that some of them have been holding us back. One or more of these individuals were never meant to be permanent fixtures in our live

There’s a kind of heartbreak that doesn’t just hurt your feelings. It rearranges your whole future. You thought this relationship was it. You pictured the life, the home, the years ahead. You prayed about it, hoped for it, maybe even defended it when others questioned it. Then suddenly… it ends. And now you’re standing in the quiet wondering what just happened. Proverbs 3:5–6 (NLT) tells us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. See

Understanding What God Has Already Done It Started in the Spirit First Genesis 1:1 (NLT) tells us, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” and Revelation 22:13 reminds us that He is “the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” Before anything existed in the natural, God already was—and everything that flows from Him is rooted in the Spirit. John 4:24 tells us that God is Spirit, and we must worship Him in spirit and in truth,

When we give our lives to Christ and become born-again, the Holy Spirit, God’s seed, comes to live inside us. Jesus Christ said in John 16:13(NLT), “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.” The Holy Spirit helps us to pray and to grow closer to God. He is the One who establishes the intimacy between us and our Heavenly Father that we desire so much. T

Leslie’s youngest daughter, Vanessa, had been a very quiet and reserved child until she turned 14 years old. She began to date boys and skip school, all the while her mother and two older siblings were completely oblivious. It wasn’t until her grades began to slip that Leslie caught a glimpse that something was wrong. Their father passed away shortly after Vanessa was born, so Leslie was a single parent with three children and two jobs. She couldn’t believe the things the tea

When thinking about the human heart, most of us first consider the vital organ of the human body that is necessary to keep the body alive. In the physical sense, the heart is a large muscle. As it beats, it pumps blood around the entire body, carrying oxygen and nutrients throughout all the parts, while also getting rid of unwanted wastes. Its design allows us a glimpse of God’s masterful and brilliant handiwork in creating this intricate organ that supports our lives. It als

The minds of many women are occupied with the question, “How do I make a man love me?” We want to know how to make him light up when we walk into a room and we want him to absolutely adore us. We desire the ultimate commitment from a man, and we want him to make us feel secure in his love and devotion. It’s the real love that we’re after. From the top of his head to the tips of his toes, we want him to be oozing over with a Christ-like manhood. When we’re sad, he will do anyt

One of our primary responsibilities as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ is to be the reason that others think God is good. There is in truth no boundary for His goodness, because He is good all the time. As followers of Christ, we should be so convinced of God’s goodness that it should be oozing out of our pores. Faith in God is infectious, and He intended that it should be that way. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 5:16(ESV), “In the same way, let your light shine before othe

Our precious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, taught the disciples in John 14:15-17(NLT), “15 If you love me, obey my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.” Jesus said that our Heavenly Father

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Spring is in the air, and this is a season marked by the newness that our God brings. All of us are anticipating what the Father will...