Drawn Away and Enticed: What James Teaches About How Temptation Works
Spend an early morning on a Minnesota lake and watch a good fisherman work. He doesn’t drop a bare hook over the side and hope[…]
What Does the Bible Say About Pride? Why God Resists the Proud and Gives Grace to the Humble
Drive past a wheat field in late August, just before harvest, and look closely at the heads of grain. The ones that filled out well[…]
Learning Contentment: What the Bible Says About Being Content in Every Season
Out in farm country, you’ll often find an old rain barrel sitting under the corner of a barn roof. In a wet spring it runs[…]
Presumptuous Sins: Presuming on God and Assuming About Others
Key takeaways: A presumptuous sin is deliberate, eyes-open sin committed with confidence that God will let it slide — whether by presuming on His grace[…]
A Root of Bitterness: What Hebrews 12:15 Says About the Thing Growing Underneath
Key takeaways: Hebrews 12:15 warns of a “root of bitterness” — hidden, growing resentment planted by a real offense that, left unchecked, springs up to[…]
Set a Watch Before My Mouth: What the Bible Says About Taming the Tongue
Key takeaways: James 3 teaches that the tongue, though small, directs the whole life like a bit directs a horse or a rudder steers a[…]
The Race Is Not to the Swift: What Ecclesiastes 9:11 Says About Time, Chance, and Your Best-Laid Plans
Key takeaways: Ecclesiastes 9:11 observes that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong — because ‘time and chance happeneth[…]
A Time to Fight: What Peter Muhlenberg’s Farewell Sermon Teaches Us About Obedience
Key takeaways: Ecclesiastes 3:8 declares there is “a time of war, and a time of peace” — and Peter Muhlenberg’s January 21, 1776 farewell sermon[…]
Pure in Their Own Eyes: What True Moral Purity Looks Like
Key takeaways: True moral purity is not self-graded goodness but a clean heart that God gives, received by faith — the Bible calls self-defined righteousness[…]
Make Every Day Count: Living Each Day for the Kingdom of God
Key takeaways: Making every day count means redeeming the time — buying your hours back from a world that wants to waste them (Ephesians 5:15-16),[…]