Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters…

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.”             Luke 14:26 This passage is yet another example of how the cost of discipleship can be…

“Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother,…

Prayer is talking to God. Talking to God requires a relationship with Him. And because all relationships, earthly and heavenly, must be fostered and nurtured, there are numerous reasons why, from time to time, we might see a strain in our relationships with others, including God. So it would be impossible to outline every cause…

“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts,…

The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me walk on my high places.                                                                                                                Habakkuk 3:19  When we read the prophet Habakkuk, we see a man greatly troubled. What he was seeing happening around him and what he believed about God were…

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in unchanging love. He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.                                   …

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?                                                                                                                      Micah 6:8  If we were to try and identify some basic instructions for believers in Jesus to live out in our culture…

“Seek Me that you may live. Seek the Lord that you may live…Seek good and not evil, that you may live…” Amos 5:4b, 6a, 14a  Our highest calling in this life is to seek God and to enjoy His presence. This is at the core of worship. “To seek” is an attempt or desire to find something or…

“It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”                                                                                               …