Addition by Subtraction
Send us a Text Message. We all want something better, but oftentimes, we're afraid to leave the old thing behind before the new thing arrives. Support the Show.
The Sixth Love Language is Growth
Send us a Text Message. You may have heard of the "five love languages": acts of service, gift giving, quality time, physical touch, and words of affirmation. But there's a sixth love language that's even more important than the first five combined, because without it the others fail: personal growth. When Paul writes his famous […]
God is the Keeper of the Flame
Send us a Text Message. Relationships are often easiest and happiest in the beginning when couples fall in love. But too often, that feeling fades, and when that happens the relationship is at risk of decay, and often people look for new partners to get that “in love” feeling back. The cycle then repeats itself […]
God’s Blood Transfusion
Send us a Text Message. Accepting Christ doesn't just redeem us from our past, it actually puts to death the old person and replaces it with an entirely new one. As the Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5: "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, and the […]
Don’t Let Ideals Become Idols
Send us a Text Message. We all want the ideal spouse, kids, job, house, vacations, even the ideal day. That's fine, but not when our happiness, and by extension our faith and our relationship with God, is tied to the perfection of those ideals. Only God is perfect, therefore, only God should be our ideal. […]
Desires of the Heart versus Desires of the Flesh
Send us a Text Message. The Bible says "Delight yourself int he Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." What's important when you read a verse like that is to see what it's not saying as well. It does not say God will give you the desires of your flesh. In […]
Relationship Key: Stop Hoarding Worthless Things
Send us a Text Message. One of the worst habits people have is to hoard junk, and we don't just mean material things, but rather petty resentments and grievances which, by themselves, aren't worth much of anything, but when accumulated over the course of years or decades, are fatal to a relationship. Instead, discard the […]
Hitting a Wall
Send us a Text Message. Do you ever feel like you've come up against an insurmountable wall, even after doing all the right things? You prayed for deliverance, you followed God, you were totally obedient, and still you've reached a point where you feel like you've wandered into the middle of nowhere, with a wall […]
Our Daily Bread
Send us a Text Message. When Jesus explains how to pray in his famous "Lord's Prayer" speech, one of the things He tells us to pray for is "our daily bread." We take that to mean, all too often, material blessings, even if only in the form of our basic necessities. But it should be […]
The Two Types of Christians
Send us a Text Message. There are two types of people who come to Christianity: The first type is the person who knows that he's living life the wrong way, he knows that what the world sold him is junk food, and, like a patient who goes to a doctor knowing he needs to change […]
I Put Before You Life and Death. Choose Life.
Send us a Text Message. In Deuteronomy, God says to His people: “I put before you life and death. Choose life.” I love that verse because it tells us there’s no middle ground. You can choose life and prosperity, or you can choose death and destruction. Too often in our world we want to have […]
The Blessing of Humility
Send us a Text Message. We don't often think of humility as something we'd want. We associate it with the word "humiliation," and the requirement to be humble sounds like one of those rules that the Bible imposes arbitrarily that we just don't want to follow, like turning the other cheek, or forgiving those who […]
Don’t Just Rebuke, Replace
Send us a Text Message. It's not enough to rebuke negative thoughts and behaviors, we have to replace them with something positive. Bad habits have to be replaced with good habits, bad thoughts have to be replaced with positive thoughts, and the enemy's lies have to be replaced with God's truth. Otherwise, you're just leaving […]
God is Not an Angry Police Officer, Part 2
Send us a Text Message. One of the great misconceptions that people have is that God exists to place unreasonable restrictions on us, and He's just waiting for us to trip up and punish us. Nothing could be further from the truth. God isn't an angry police officer, He's a loving father, and whereas criminal […]
What Does It Mean to be the Bride of Christ?
Send us a Text Message. God wants to have a relationship with us that is akin to that of a married couple. But what does that mean? It means a full-time relationship of intimacy, and communication, and definitely not idolatry. Support the Show.
Humility Maximizes Blessings
Send us a Text Message. Nobody likes to do something for someone else, and then have that person take all the credit for it. God doesn't either. Just as God gives seed to the sower, he gives blessings to those who give Him the credit. Proverbs 22:4 says "The reward for humility and fear of […]
You’re Not a Loner, You’re a Light
Send us a Text Message. I know what it's like to be a loner. It's not fun. But what I did not understand was that often, feeling like an outsider is what happens when God sets us apart. Support the Show.
Step Out of the Boat and Onto the Water
Send us a Text Message. Peter is an interesting character in the Bible, because he's both very flawed, and very revered. He tries to send Jesus away, telling him "depart from me, I am a sinful man," he denies Jesus three times, and Jesus rebuked him more sharply than any other person, saying "Get the […]
God Desires Mercy, Not Sacrifice
Send us a Text Message. If you could have others describe you in one word, what would you want it to be? Most people would not say "merciful," but that's perhaps the quality above all else that God wants us to exhibit, probably because that's the quality He has to exhibit the most, and He […]
Fruits of the Flesh
Send us a Text Message. We've spoken a lot about the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. But it's equally important to be able to identify what the fruits of the flesh, in other words, the sinful nature we need to overcome in order to achieve God's […]
