When he was tempted in the wilderness, Jesus knew that the only kingdom worth having is the kingdom that God has promised to give you.
When you don’t have real love in your life, you try to replace it with other things that appear to satisfy, but in the end, they always let us down.
The historical record of Abraham’s life doesn’t seem to point to him as a man of great faith, but instead as a man of a weak and doubting faith.
Grace, by its very definition, seeks us out and comes to us, and it brings with it the opportunity for us to accept it and respond.
Do you compare yourself to what other Christians are doing for God? To God, it’s not about how much you’ve done that matters, but whether you’ve said “yes”.
People are like mirrors. We look at them and see ourselves in what we see reflected back, but this will always fall infinitely short of how God sees us.
We like the idea of grace, love, and forgiveness, but not the idea of having to fight. Maybe because we have the wrong idea of what the fight of faith is all about.
Do you ever feel like the responsibilities are too big, the challenges are too big, and what others expect of you is too big?