Do you sometimes cringe when you remember your past mistakes and failures? I do. There are times when I wish I could delete files in my brain that are stuffed full of blunders, dumb choices, and outright rebellious decisions that led me down some dark paths. Every so often, one peeks its head out of…
Every Christian battles sin. Even Paul, in Romans 7, revealed that sin was a battle for him when he said, “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” In other words, “I’m doing what I shouldn’t do and not doing what I should.” Sound…
I’ll never forget the moment I heard my mom explain the biblical definition of perfection. At that moment, I experienced freedom in a way I had never experienced before. I had read the verse “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” And I tried to live up to that command….
Have you fallen into sin lately and are struggling with shame and guilt? Maybe it’s something you did in your past that you’ve never been able to get over. Perhaps you’ve been away from God for a while, and you feel unworthy to come back to the Lord. If you read Hebrews 11 – the…
The other day my son wanted to play a video game that I had already told him he couldn’t play because of some bad language in it. He said something that I’ve heard before, many times from mature believers: “But it’s just a little bit of language, overall it’s a good game.” I took that…
