False teachers in Galatia were perverting the wonderful message of God’s grace. They were teaching that salvation depended on both Jesus and Moses. But Jesus is the only answer to our sin.
If you were on death row for an unjust reason, what would you need from your friends? I’d need lots of encouragement. But in the opening lines of his final letter, a letter written in a Roman dungeon, Paul is the one giving the encouragement.
The American church is in trouble. Fewer and fewer people are reading the scriptures and searching for God. Why? Maybe the church has forgotten its reason for existence.
Researchers have carefully investigated the causes, symptoms, and treatments for depression. But what about happiness? University of Pennsylvania researcher Martin Seligman has identified the characteristics of happy people. Surprise, surprise — the Bible said it first.
A year is a significant unit of a lifetime. The year 2017 is over. And so we are another step closer to eternity. What are our plans for 2018? Paul’s message to the Philippians (3:12-14) gives us a couple of inspired principles to live by.
At Christmastime all eyes are on the virgin birth of Jesus. But that doesn’t mean that everybody believes in that great miracle or in any other biblical miracle. I believe in the miracles recorded in scripture, and I’d love to see an astonishing sign with my own eyes. But miracles don’t accomplish what many people…
Imagine that you are God. Your eternal Son is about to assume human flesh – to become a helpless baby. Whom would you trust to father your Son? God’s choice was Joseph (Matt. 1:18).
David says that men and women are weak, sinful, and transient. Sounds sort of depressing. But David isn’t depressed. His reflections on human frailty lead him to exuberant praise (Ps. 103:1-22).
We have a good number of words to describe the person who gets angry over nothing – hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered. Why isn’t there a word meaning long temper? Actually, there is. The word is “patience.”
A child’s beliefs determine what is important to him, and his values dictate his behavior. How are my kids acting? What do they really believe?