2 Pedro 2:19 Nvt

We need to see ourselves as God sees each one of us—His beloved sons and daughters.…

We need to see ourselves as God sees each one of us—His beloved sons and daughters.…

Inspirational Thought of the Day: In our misguided pursuit of freedom, we are rebels destined to selfish living apart from God’s kind intervention. Scripture of the Day: 2 Peter 1:10 “Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.” […]…

It is impossible to please both man and God, for we will seek to please the one we fear most. Who do you fear the most?…

Now just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness.” The disciple Peter offers a final word on the matter of slavery and sin: “People are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” There is a deeper division in this country: one not seen since before the Civil War. I suspect both North and South believed then — as many do now — that they were on the “right side of history.” But by God’s providence only one side was proven right with regards to the issue of slavery. Because of the North’s victory at Sharpsburg, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln found the will and opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring, “that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.” If President Lincoln’s words sound familiar, they should, for by this time he had begun to think of the Civil War as God’s judgement upon the nation.…

Intolerance for biblical Christianity is seemingly on the rise. This shouldn’t surprise us—the Lord promised that His people would be persecuted. But it should sharpen our resolve to remain faithful and pure before a watching and increasingly hostile world. This series, first published in July 2015, is a timely reminder to that end. –ed. For …

Christian liberty. It is a term frequently used and rarely understood in our age of no restraint. The Scriptural expression is actually “the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” and this is an important designation (Galatians 5:1). Our liberty is not license to do as we please; it is the life we have through identification with the Lord Jesus.…

Is God making people wicked, or are they wicked against his will? This is a hard question to answer for someone who believes that God forces no one to sin while at the same nothing comes to pass ag……

God created both our need for food and our food, and that provides a daily opportunity for us to depend on Him and to thank Him.…

The Bible presents human freedom as both a gift and a test (1st Corinthians 10:23, Genesis 3). God is the giver of human freedom. People have the right to do whatever they please with God’s gift of……