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Speed Steals Before It Kills In our constant dopamine loop we forget what matters most, and the day's opportunities are lost forever...

Jesus indicted men for their love of human glory: “They loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God” (Jn. 12:43). Such...

“ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly...

Perhaps you've heard someone say, “Hell can’t be eternal. I mean, God wouldn’t torture people forever — that would make Him a sadist, and...

A sectarian once blurted out, “I only follow the words in red — Jesus’ words — because that’s what really matters.” You know the...

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not...

“Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when You speak and blameless when...

Let’s be clear: no one struts into God’s presence with a résumé. “Where then is boasting? It is excluded” (Rom. 3:27). Period. God’s...

A popular, evangelical preacher passed away this week. Almost immediately tributes flooded in praising his “clarity,” “courage,” and...

It seems strange to hear God say, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him. For now I know that you...

Here’s why judgment won’t surprise anyone who’s paying attention. Every father knows how he would respond if the life of his child were...

Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane prompts many questions: What exactly was He praying for? Was He afraid to die? Was He hesitating at the last...

Read Psalm 34. It’s the joyful worship of a man whom God just rescued from a life-threatening crisis. It’s a song of praise and gratitude...

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in...

While studying God’s plan of salvation with a friend, we came to Mk. 16:16… “He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, he who does...

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not sleep as the...

“ Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ” (Is. 1:18)....

“ If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me ” (Lk. 9:23). Co-opting the Gospel...

“ And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up ” (Gal. 6:9). The Bible speaks of rewards...

The Parable of the Laborers (Matt. 20:1-16) provides a much-needed reminder that God’s grace does not conform to human ideas of fairness....