As Christians, indeed, as followers of Jesus Christ, we have a few choices as we face ANY sin in our life: We can bury our sin, hide it and become self-righteous, or we can give in to the sin and simply accept it in our life. We give up on the battle and we basically create a chasm between us and Go
I have heard that if you play a country record backwards, your spouse returns, your dog is resurrected, and your truck starts working again. Now, I know in many ways that life isn’t that way. But there is a grain of truth in the fact that when we apply the wisdom of Jesus, a truth that is in m
When Jesus is the foundation of our lives and when we lay the bricks of these foundational attitudes–the Beatitudes–we are promised blessedness. Jesus provides answers to conditions in our lives that we so often can’t figure out. Why does it seem that happiness and fulfillment are so har
Let’s take a step deeper and look at what it means to be “poor in spirit”. As we have already seen, being “poor in spirit” is recognizing our total dependence on God–acknowledging that without Him we are nothing. It is not a weakness in the sense of weak and pitif
Found in the Gospel of Matthew is the greatest sermon that Jesus preached, a sermon we call “The Sermon on the Mount”. I believe that as followers of Christ, as we look closely at the Scriptures, we must look first through the lens of the teachings of Jesus, our risen Savior, indeed, God
This man was on the beach watching all the cute girls and soaking up the sun. A bottle washed up on shore in the surf and landed a few feet away from where he was tanning. It was a curious looking bottle, a little ornate, yet weather worn. He walked over to it, picked it up and took the cork out exp