How Did Jesus Respond to Doubters?
January 20, 2021
Poverty is not only economic but can also be spiritual. In Matthew 5, Jesus blessed people who recognized their spiritual shortcomings. This was in stark contrast to the local religious leaders, the Pharisees. One Pharisee publicly prayed, “Thank [God] I am not like other people— robbers, evildoers, adulterers” (Luke 18:9-14).
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A certain man hated a group of people so much that he made it his purpose in life to make them suffer. He oversaw many of their deaths, uttering threats with every breath. This wasn’t a Nazi general, but the Apostle Paul. When Paul eventually encountered God, the experience left him blind and unable to eat for three days, but it began a complete transformation in him (Acts 9). A murderer became one of God’s most faithful messengers.
January 19, 2021
God knows our individual struggles. He “knit us together in our mother’s womb,” knows the numbers of hairs on our heads and knows what we are thinking from afar (Luke 12:7, Psalm. 139). He knows our anxieties, our perceived inadequacies, and every wound. He gives us grace for each circumstance.
January 18, 2021
One of the best things about God’s Word is that it tells us about real people with real flaws and shows how God deals with them. Take Saul, for example. The tallest and most handsome man in Israel, the Bible says that God called him to be Israel’s first king. (1 Samuel 10:9)
January 15, 2021
Love does not discriminate by age; it can suck each of us into a sweet, chaotic irrationality. Yet lasting love involves repeated choices. True love is hard, drawn- out work. Jesus recognized this, saying, “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples” (John 13:35 NLT).
January 14, 2021
Do you know the difference between guilt and shame? Guilt is a feeling of responsibility and remorse while shame is a feeling of humiliation. Guilt is appropriate at times, but shame can lead us away from community with others and into twisted ideas of our worth.
January 13, 2021
Do you plan your days, entering appointments and goals on your phone or paper calendar? If you’re not a planner, you probably feel that you should be. Plans equal preparedness, right? Well, not always. Something like a pandemic, for example, makes us question whether tomorrow will even arrive. We realize we’re not as in control as we thought we were.
January 12, 2021
When a friend is hurting, we wish we could make it stop. We cannot fix most situations, and we often end up doing one of two things. Either we avoid talking about the pain because we feel helpless, or we resort to statements of questionable certainty like, “there is a good reason for this” or “everything will be okay.” Those things might be true, but they are rarely comforting.
January 11, 2021
Walk the streets of any major city and you will see the same styles of clothing, hear the same music and watch people glued to their phones on many of the same social media platforms. But, by the standards of His day Jesus Christ was a non‑conformist who did not fit in with the crowd. He disregarded traditions and social customs if they were out of keeping with the revealed Word of God. He was willing to stand alone from the crowd, yet it was not His clothes that made Him different. In fact, there is no evidence whatsoever that suggests His clothes or hair made Him stand out in the least from His peers. It was His life, His complete honesty, His soul‑penetrating insight into the lives of those who encountered Him.
January 8, 2021
The Bible teaches us that our pain is not a waste. It’s not only not a waste, but it will result in something wonderful. “Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all,” the Bible says (2 Corinthians 4:17). Now, our troubles do not always feel light or momentary, but when we understand eternal glory, they certainly seem more manageable. The reward, eternal glory, is being in the presence of God forever. Our suffering on Earth brings us daily closer to that glory. “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day” says (2 Corinthians 4:16).
January 7, 2021
What is so special about the Bible? For 2,000 years people have claimed to be changed by reading it!
January 6, 2021
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