To live in this fallen and broken age is to suffer in some form or fashion. There’s pain. There’s loss. There’s disappointment. There’s disaster. Sometimes there’s a lot of good with a little bad, but sometimes there’s a lot of bad with a little good. Couple onto this experience of simply being a human in…

What if I told you you are in the middle of a war and that you have a relentless enemy striving to kill you? And that that enemy is not interested in the least in a peace treaty or a compromise. They will stop at nothing until you are dead. And because of that, you…

Jesus one time emphatically said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” Have you found that to be true? Have you ever tried to work for two bosses? Everything is fine while they…

Back when I was in school, math was never my best subject. It was always my lowest ACT score. I can remember sitting there and thinking, I wish Albert Einstein could just come take this part of the test for me. Wouldn’t that have been great? I mean, a dude with his sort of math…

Are you thankful for the law of God? You should be. And so, you might be saying, “of course, I’m thankful for God’s law.” Ok, that’s great, but here’s the follow-up question:  why? Why are you thankful for the law of God? You see, the why makes the difference. Are you thankful for the law…

As we near the end of the gardening season, every spring and summer is a beautiful illustration of a rock solid, biblical law that is summed up best this way:  what you sow, you will reap. I mean, wouldn’t you be really surprised to go out to your garden to find okra growing when you…

One of the phrases that my wife Christy and I used over and over again with our five kids was, “If you try it, you’ll like it.” Just picture us there trying to get our toddler sitting in his high chair to open his mouth so that he can feed him a new jar of…

Have you ever heard somebody say that so-and-so “is dead to the world,”? Well, that doesn’t mean that they are actually dead. It just means that they are either so preoccupied or tired or so deeply asleep that the world has no impact on them. Nothing about the world gets their attention. They’re not attracted…

One of the most beautiful words in all the Bible is the word “grace.” Grace means that we get the good rewards we haven’t earned, we get the good things we don’t deserve. And God makes an astounding promise in the book of Romans that there will always be enough grace from God to cover…

When I was an associate pastor in far west Kentucky, I got a call one day from an elderly man in our church who had sprung a water leak under his mobile home. You know, sometimes along with being a preacher, pastors also moonlight as plumbers. So, I headed over to give him a hand.…