Friday was defeat, Saturday was despair, Sunday was victory. “Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.” – Psalm 30 Are you ready for your resurrection? Are you ready for life — abundant, blessed, and whole? Are you ready to let go of your fear, your doubt, your hurts, your tears?…
One of the central foundations of Christianity that differentiates it from many other world religions is the fundamental belief that life is not fair. In Christianity, the universe is not conspiring to guarantee you the same outcome as everyone else, or balancing the outputs you achieve with the outputs received by others, or even returning to…
Get ready. God is about to do something big. “Yeah…right…about that…” Have you gotten to a place where it seems hard to believe? Are you ready for someone else to do something for you for a change? Does it seem like the ancient Greek saying so often attributed to Ben Franklin is the moral of…
Don’t let it get you down. Every time something negative has happened in my life I have told myself, “Don’t let it get you down.” But what does this really mean? You got passed over at work for a less qualified candidate. Don’t let it get you down. You got told you have cancer. Don’t…
Jesus is ready to take your life to new levels of joy, new levels of health, new levels of prosperity, new levels of peace, new levels of abundance, new levels of blessing, new levels of connectedness, new levels of success, new levels of fulfillment, new levels of satisfaction, the list goes on. Jesus is not…
We have all benefited from the rich blessings He brought to us — one gracious blessing after another. The story of Jesus Christ as it is told by John starts with these words: “In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. He was in the beginning with God….
God has the ability to show you what He has in store for you, even when things aren’t going your way. When you find yourself challenged, struggling, depressed, frustrated, or defeated it can seem that the only honest and realistic position to take is to embrace where you are for what it is and…
I do not fear the judgment of God. Every day you get judged hundreds of times. You, your parents, your children, your friends, your family, your coworkers, your boss. People you have just met for the first time. People you have known for years. People are continually forming their opinion, updating their take, shaping their…
Jesus succeeded in His mission by choosing to die for his friends. Like a marine diving on a grenade to save his squad members, or a fireman rushing up the stairs of the world trade center to get one more out as the towers fell — Jesus was willing to put it all on the…