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Defeating Temptation: Four Words Toward Victory

JOHN 19:18 – There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.”   God’s Word tells us a couple things about temptation to sin. They are found in the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church – No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he…

The Consequences of Spiritual Procrastination

HAGGAI 1:1-11 – In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people…

The Security In God’s Love

ROMANS 8:36-39 – As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor…

Your Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News

TAKE UP AND READ Do you see your limitations as a bad thing? Do you look back on yesteryears wishing to relive those days? Or maybe you have misunderstood the difference between being finite and fallen. In his book, Kapic addresses human finitude and how we can embrace it to the glory of God. He…

How To Enjoy The Lord’s Blessings

PSALM 16:8-11 – I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of…