Christian Living

The call to be faithful concerns today only. No one can live faithfully in the near or distant future. For example, one cannot walk in faith tomorrow, or even an hour from now, because faithfulness exists only in the moment. One may desire to live out his life in faithfulness to God, and therefore concern…

The greatness of loyalty is most clear in the storms of disloyalty. Quotidian loyalty is characteristic of many good times, but great loyalty alone survives and shines during the dark tempest of disloyalty. For it is in the gales of disloyalty by those in whom you placed your trust that the genuine loyalty of nobles…

The future belongs to God, and we are not God. Yet how quick we are to guarantee the future. People frequently speak about the future with certainty, but God rarely discloses our personal future. When we speak about the future with phrases like”I will never” or “This will never” or other such phrases of future…

Sincere requests for forgiveness, which is evidenced in words and actions, is all that is needed to be saved and forgiven by God. Christians should require nothing more to forgive their offenders, for to do so is to dishonor grace. “To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit”…

Giving thanks to God without the omnipresent conjunction “but.” Rare! It is easy to give thanks to God because it is right, and we have so many things to be thankful for as long as we do not have to be unguardedly thankful. Try naming everything that you are thankful for with regard to your…

We should not come to Scripture to find a verse that seems to support an idea drawn from the wisdom of the world, but labor in the Word of God to build Christ’s church with the wisdom of God. At times, someone will quip that he is only interested in going to heaven and is…

Some believe that prayer is seeking to pray what God has already determined for you, but the Scripture is clear that while God has predetermined many things, He sovereignly chose to predetermine not to predetermine everything, but to incorporate the prayers of His people into the outcome. “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let…

Anyone can rebuke a Christian for his or her sin, but it takes a mature spiritual Christian to give godly rebuke with a heart for restoration. A true heart for the restoration of a brother includes a willingness to be intimately involved in the process and a keen awareness of one’s own propensity to be…

The familiarity with sin, human need, and tragedies can transform compassion into cold conversations. For example, the forty-year war in this country to end legalized abortion, which has taken the lives of fifty million innocent babies and wounded an inestimable amount of relatives and friends can seem so uncorrectable that Christian compassion, which requires involvement,…

Humility rather than confidence is the apparel of security. In the security of lives going well, we can often envisage ourselves acting supremely in future difficulties or suffering the present peril of others. We should learn from Peter. Christ told Peter of his future denial of Him, and Peter argued that he would not fail…