How to Resist the Devil
Read: James 4:7-8 For many people the Devil is nothing more than a cartoon character. But we have a real and terrible enemy in Satan. Let’s learn today how to fight against him. How do we go about resisting the devil? To Jesus Christ and his apostles, that was a vitally important question. Our Lord had […]
How to Conquer Your Besetting Sin
Read: Romans 6:11-14 Have you been struggling for a long time against a particularly stubborn sin in your life? Well we have good news for you today, there is a way for you to get help. I wonder if you are aware today of some besetting sin in your life. “What’s that about?” someone asks. The […]
How to Approach God in Prayer
Read: Hebrews 4:16 Many people today are so unacquainted with God or feel that he’s so far away they don’t even know how to talk to him and hardly even dare to try. But you can learn a way to approach him with confidence. Suppose you wanted to approach God in prayer, to come into […]
Nicodemus
Read: John 3:1-17 Just like currency, language can suffer from inflation, but it’s no exaggeration to say that John 3 is the most important chapter in the Bible. Here’s the story of one of the most important encounters with Jesus in the entire New Testament. It comes from the third chapter of the gospel of John. Now there […]
Good News for the Poor
Read: Luke 4:14-21, 24-28 At the beginning of his public ministry Jesus explained the work he had come to do using words from the prophet Isaiah. That work was all about deliverance, restoration, good news! In the United States a new presidential administration begins with an impressive ceremony called the Inauguration. Custom dictates many of the […]
When You Feel Forsaken
Read: Matthew 27:46 When Jesus cried out on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” he was all alone, but because he was abandoned by God, you never have to be. The Worst Case Have you ever been forsaken? If there is a word more chilling than that, an experience more dismal, […]
The Macedonian Call
Read: Acts 16:9-12, 16-23 For more than 1500 years, Christianity has been considered to be a “western” or European religion. But it’s not. Christianity is the faith of all—whether European or African, Asian or American—who believe in and follow Jesus Christ. As we all know, Macedonia has been much in the news in recent weeks. The […]
A Song of the Goodness of God
Read: Psalm 34:1-22 “God is great, and God is good . . .” That brief phrase says just about all we need to know about God. But what exactly does it mean to say “God is good”? In a previous message I looked at Psalm 139, a song about the greatness of God. Now, in the 34th […]
How to Rejoice in Hard Times
Read: Habakkuk 3:17-18 The apostle Paul’s word to Christians is, “Rejoice in the Lord always, I say it again, rejoice.” But is that really possible? Sooner or later, most of us meet with hard times. Maybe we have family troubles, bouts with serious illness or some desolating grief. Things go badly wrong at work. We have […]