“The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom” (Isaiah 35:1). A little girl walking in a garden noticed a particularly beautiful flower. She admired its beauty and enjoyed its fragrance. “It’s so pretty!” she exclaimed. As she gazed on it, her eyes followed the stem down to the soil in which it grew. “This flower is too pretty to be planted in such dirt!” s...  Read More

“Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).This is, undoubtedly, one of my favorite verses in scripture. I think about it almost daily and meditate on it regularly. I suppose we all get the value of this admonition spiritually. However, perhaps we often forget the biblical context in which it is given. In the verses that precede it (v. 8-9), the psalmist pictures a battlefield after the host...  Read More

Today I am writing about the subject of guilt…Do you ever feel guilty? Personally, I hate that feeling! How about you? I suppose we all live with a bit of guilt, real or imagined, and like anxiety, we have to come up with a plan of what to do about it.The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit convicts us of guilt (John 16:8-11). But the guilt God gives us is an expression of His grace to us. He will ...  Read More

We have giants we need to face and battles we need to fight. In recent weeks, I have been writing about our spiritual battle from Ephesians 6:10-18. Today I want us to think about How to get the edge in spiritual warfare.The Apostle Paul wrote, “Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests” (Ephesians 6:18). This means to pray in harmony with His will while seeking to...  Read More

We have giants we need to face and battles we need to fight. In recent weeks, I have been writing about spiritual warfare from Ephesians 6:10-18. You will recall how this teaching begins with Paul, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes…” (v. 11). You must be fully dressed for battle! Let’s continue with pieces of our armor that we must wear daily...  Read More

We have giants we need to face and battles we need to fight. In recent weeks, I have been writing about how to fight. Our inspiration for spiritual warfare comes from Paul’s teaching in Ephesians 6:10-18. Paul begins by saying, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes…” (v. 11). So you must be fully dressed for battle! What are the pieces of armor r...  Read More