The Person and Power of God in Your Spiritual Growth

Just let go and let God. If you’ve been around the church for any significant time, you’ve probably heard someone offer that passive maxim as ...

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Building a Solid Christian Worldview

Whether you realize it or not, you do have a worldview. You either fill in the blanks with random answers, or you seek truth like you’re assembling ...

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11 Reasons to Incorporate Laughter Into Your Life

When someone is in pain or feeling sick, their sense of humor often abandons them. Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but ...

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4 Encouraging Steps To Move Beyond the Adversity That Has You Stuck

Recently, I had the privilege of sitting with a man and his lovely wife who had been battling cancer. Treatments seem to be unsuccessful and ...

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Yes, You Should Pray for Riches. But What Kind?

One day, you and I are going to be very, very rich. That’s because we have an inheritance ahead of us. In Ephesians 1:14, Paul ...

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The Coming King

In January 1961, a few days before he was inaugurated, president-elect John F. Kennedy invited Billy Graham to join him for a round of golf. ...

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Is There a Cornelius in Your Life?

More than 50 years ago, there was a man named Charles Smith, known by his friends as Chuck, who felt called to teach God’s Word ...

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8 Signs You’re in a Spiritual Battle and How to Win

Fatigue. Anxiety. Stress. Temptation. Fear. Despair. Lies. Revenge. Sound familiar? These are some of the devil’s favorite schemes for eroding our faith in God. He ...

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God Loves Us. Period.

We all are starving for a personal experience of genuine, Biblical love. The teachers of shadow spirituality tell us that it is only as we ...

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Who Is Responsible For Your Spiritual Growth?

The Christian life is anything but a passive pursuit. The New Testament commands believers to “be all the more diligent” (2 Peter 1:10), to take ...

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Finding God’s Purpose in Adversity

As I’ve shared before, I’ve had to overcome adversity. My dad died an alcoholic, and my stepdad walked out on my siblings and me the ...

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God’s Plan

Going to high school back in Corvallis, Oregon, I remember the girls I knew and went to school with. They all seem to have a solid ...

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How To Faithfully Overcome Tragedy and Thrive in the Hardest Times

How have hard times changed you? Have the difficult circumstances that you’ve faced made you stronger or have they shaken your faith? 

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The Greatest Promise in the Bible

Occasionally, somebody will ask me, “What’s your favorite verse in the Bible?” My favorite verse is one that Christians, historically, have clung to in times ...

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5 Sermons on God’s Love

God's love for us—for each one of us—is expressed in the great cost He paid at Calvary, bearing the wrath that our sins deserve. In ...

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Let’s Be Known by Our Love—Biblical Love

We live in a time when our society is becoming increasingly disjointed and divided. Rather than celebrating what we have in common, it seems nowadays ...

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Spiritual Warfare Prayer

After describing the Armor of God in Ephesians 6, Paul envelops the entire metaphor in what is truly the Christian's primary source of defense and ...

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God’s Peace

Some people believe that if they have a certain level of wealth, then they will have peace—or if they marry right, then they will know ...

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