Tag Archives: obedience

“How can we trust that God won’t bring any more bad things to us?” This was the question my son asked one morning. As I pondered the answer, I thought about the three Hebrew boys in the book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar made a grand statue, a golden image that ...

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,” (Hebrews 9:27). One of the more controversial discussions about the Day of Judgement is what the punishment will be for those whose names are not written in the Book of Life. Many have a vision ...

What do you know is right and good that you do not do?  We all have those areas of life that we say, “I ought to do this, but…”  We excuse ourselves in a variety of ways. I’ve always been like this or It’s just the way I am. It ...

The devil tries to use God’s Word against us, and he knows his stuff! He’s been given many names in the bible: “murderer” and “father of lies” (John 8),”dragon” and” serpent” (Revelation 4),” tempter” (Matthew 4), “angel of the abyss” (Revelation 9)…we cannot take him on in our own strength.  But when he ...

“I have wasted so many years,” my heart cries as I glimpse the glory of God and think of how, so often, I make ‘faith’ what it is not.  I do what seems right; I drown out the voice of God with my own ‘good’ desires.  I trample His glory ...