Discover a thousand treasures
Once there was a wealthy man with a strange illness. Each night he forgot his wealth... A parable for living thankfully.
Ray Hollenbach
The secret of being content
Paul found the secret of being content and shares a few insights into his secret.
The high cost of comforting words
The scriptures are filled with comfort and encouragement, and some of that encouragement is to embrace the hard way.
Peace that passes understanding
“Be anxious for nothing.” is not a command, but an outcome that depends on living out the words that follow. We can be free from anxiety through prayer and thanksgiving.
What if you got to live forever, but…
As a new believer I had conflicting thoughts and emotions about eternal life. Those who led me to the Lord told me I could go to heaven by trusting Jesus’ sacrifice for my sins. I hadn’t thought much about heaven, and what thoughts I did have ran more to the negative—hell sounded like a pretty bad place. If there were only two choices,…
“Here. I’ll show you”
Who do you look to when looking for an example of a disciple of Christ?
What is the Rock?
A look at the lesson hidden in plain sight in the final story Jesus tells in his Sermon on the Mount .
How can we humble ourselves?
Four times Jesus lays out the challenge to humble ourselves, but how?
The challenge of grace
Grace saves and then teaches because God loves us so much he doesn't let us stay just the way we are.
The impossible mentor?
Our esteem for Jesus’ life of obedience to the Father and our desire to be “just like Jesus” does battle with the deep-seated notion that it is impossible to be like him.
