Music, poetry, movies…all spread the lie that love should be easy. In reality, relationships are hard. Relationships are hard because love is difficult. Love might seem easy over a candlelight dinner or when first holding your newborn child, but we quickly learn how...
Francois Marie Voltaire, the French agnostic, said that Christianity would not survive him by a hundred years, yet a hundred years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society purchased his old home and, upon Voltaire's own press, printed a complete edition of the Bible....
We are so accustomed to giving up. We either don’t believe in the interventions of God in our problems — or we just give up after a prayer or two. “I’m tired of praying.” “I don’t know what I am going to do.” “Obviously, God doesn’t want to answer this prayer.” Our...
Authority in our world is as necessary to the survival of the human race as are good nutrition and clean air. When everyone is a "law unto himself," there is no law; anarchy leads to chaos and chaos to annihilation. That’s why the history of humankind is replete with...
As a prominent Levite singer in King David's court, Asaph’s initial toxic envy of the prosperity of the wicked is a stark reminder that envy can strike anyone. It also reveals how envy can skew our perception of what truly matters, leading us down a path of discontent...
Why do so many people pray to a living God and believe in Jesus Christ, but down deep in their hearts, they just don't feel much faith? Ever wonder? Perhaps you are there right now. The Bible says that God has given us His Word, the Bible, so that you may know that...
Is there a nagging need in your life that, it seems, will never get met? Marc runs a small business that's growing but always running on tight finances. Every role on his team is integral, and he desperately needed to hire three additional people. He prayed, asking...
With so many personal finance books out there, one often-overlooked treasure trove of wisdom is the Bible. What many do not realize, beyond its spiritual significance, is that the Bible offers timeless principles that extend into the realm of personal finance....
A stockbroker who writes a large check to his favorite charity, a Buddhist priest who, with a shaven head, goes on a long journey, and a young woman who takes a vow of chastity and goes into a convent doesn't have much in common, but there is one thing which they do...
How comfortable are you with your eternal destiny? How clear is it in your mind where you are going and why you are going there? Have you come to the place in your spiritual life where you know for certain that if you die tonight, you are going to heaven? If God were...