We need to choose our audience. If we only seek to please people, we will walk according to the flesh. But if we seek to please an audience of One, we will strive to walk by the Spirit. Those who walk by the flesh cannot please God and are dead, but those who walk by...
God’s deliverance will not be predictable. But what is predictable is that God’s character will never change and that He is faithful to deliver His people. In the Old Testament, God delivered His people from the oppression of their enemies through the power of the...
Believers in Christ are going to experience warfare on three levels: against the world, the flesh, and the devil. The first two have to do with external opposition and internal struggles, while the third refers to spiritual powers coming against us. Protection Against...
The reality of our union with Christ has freed us from slavery to sin. God knows us intimately, even when we were His enemies. We could not save ourselves, so He underwrote the cost of our sin in order to have a relationship with us and bring us into His light and...
Scripture gives us a twofold picture of humanity: dignity and depravity. We have dignity because we were created in the image of God. But that image has been marred by the Fall, leading us into depravity. Paul looks at these two aspects of humanity...
