PURSUING YOUR WIFE
Every woman wants to be pursued by her man, yet all too often we neglect the mission. While you were dating, the natural way of things is to fill up the calendar with pursuing activities. We are all in during this stage. Then we get married, and it feels like a mission accomplished, they are ours. Men naturally move onto other areas of life to conquer.
LIVING ON PURPOSE DESPITE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES
1 Peter is a letter written to believers who are receiving bad treatment because of the mere fact they believe in Jesus. Peter writes to them saying that as Christians they must rise above injustice. They have to look beyond the present situation to God and His promises. The big idea of the entire letter […]
GOD’S WRATH
Today we have become a people who see the world as being governed by impersonal forces of nature and physics. Our world has chosen a god of their imagination. He is not a Holy God who is righteous anger must be propitiated. He is a kinder, gentler god, grandfatherly you could say, who is […]
BEATING THE FLESH
What do you do when your battle chooses you? What do you do when a conflict shows up and you did not choose it? Let’s study a veteran’s account of the conflict that is happening inside every believer’s heart between the Spirit and the flesh. At the beginning of Paul’s letter to the Romans, […]
PEACE IN THE STORM
The story in John Chapter 6 is not about the weather or fishing, it is about the power and sovereignty of God. It is a story about how we respond with confidence and hope when trials come to our lives. The biblical premise in this story is that we need a resource outside of ourselves […]
DO YOU WANT TO BE HEALED?
The narrative of the Gospel of John is centered around signs. The word “sign” means a miracle with a message, it points to something other than itself. The miracles are not only about Jesus’ power, but they are also about His redemptive plan for mankind. John 5 says, “After this, a Jewish festival took place, […]
COME FOLLOW ME AND RECEIVE LIFE
A reoccurring theme in the gospel of John is to “come and follow me and receive life.” This book is about how Jesus came to save us and give us life. Jesus came to earth so that people may have life, but we look for it in all the wrong ways. In chapter 3, Jesus met […]
BEING BORN AGAIN
In the book of John, chapter 3, Nicodemus meets with Jesus. Nicodemus was a man of the Pharisees and a preeminent voice of religious teaching of Israel. Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Jesus gets to the point by using new terminology. This […]
CLEANSING MY TEMPLE
The Lord and His disciples went to a wedding in Cana. The host family did not plan the wedding celebration well. They did not have enough wine to serve their guests for the entire time. Something needed to be done, so Mary turned to her son. It is likely she saw the present crisis as […]
DAILY REMINDERS
The premise in the book of John is that this life is not about us, it is about Jesus. The book of John, from the beginning, focuses on the who the essence and purpose of the Son, Jesus. We are not the main characters. We get to leverage what God has given us for the […]
