How to stop being self-absorbed
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ …. Colossians 2:9-10 (NIV) Perfect love desires communion, the sharing of life together, and so it...
Author: Jon Walker
Sit down, rest in God’s truck of faith
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that...
God supports your every need as you follow Jesus
May the God of peace . . . equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever...
When God disrupts your plans, drop your own
When they had testified and proclaimed the word of the Lord, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages. Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the...
Still trying to decide for yourself what is good and what is evil?
Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” Matthew 19:16 (NIV) When the rich young man came to Jesus, the Lord would not allow him...
You are defined by God and God alone
He has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts . . . 2 Corinthians 1:22 (NLT) You are not defined by your feelings. You are not defined by the opinions of...
Love in you proves Jesus in you
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 1 John 3:14 (NIV) Our love for one another is the fruit, not the...
Be planted like a tree near streams
Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds. Psalm 1:3 (NJB) There is a river that flows from the throne of...
Go in grace, but change your life
I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again. John 8:11 (TEV) Grace is meant to justify the sinner – ‘Go and sin no more.’ Grace is never meant to justify our sins –...
You don’t have to sin
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—because anyone who has died has been...