Many people have a syndrome that I call passive-lazy syndrome, and they are not aware of it. Let me tell you what it is about. At different times in life we have goals we want to achieve. Then we hit a roadblock, and sometimes the roadblock is only imaginary. Instead of facing the real problem, many people turn to peripheral things. These are things that make them look like they are doing something when they are actually doing nothing. They make excuses and complain about every other thing...
1 day ago • 6 min read
There is a simple principle I want to share with you, and it can change your life. It works in every area. If you want to learn a new skill, if you want a better walk with God, if you want a better relationship, this applies. I call it the law of 24 hours. It is a pattern I noticed in Scripture. God has placed a system in nature that has to do with 24 hours. He set things up so that anything that is going to be effective and productive has to be repeated over the span of a day. Let me show...
2 days ago • 5 min read
Your worldview controls the decisions you make. It shapes how you think, what you believe about money, how you manage your health, and the opinions you hold about almost every subject in life. Everyone has one. Every person living on this planet carries a worldview, whether they use that word or not. Some people treat it like a distant philosophy, something that belongs only in books or debates. But the truth is simpler than that. When you walk into a mall or a marketplace and choose one...
3 days ago • 6 min read
Christianity is not just about knowing the Bible. It's about living the life the Bible describes. It's about reflecting the truth of God's Word in every area of our lives, in everything we do. That has always been God's design. He showed it by sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to live right here on earth. Jesus walked, travelled, ate, worked and did everything a normal human being does. And in doing so, He showed us how to live. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" (John 1:14)....
4 days ago • 5 min read
When Adam bowed to disobedience in the garden, something deeper than a bad decision took place. His nature became corrupt. The life God had breathed into him was no longer what it was meant to be. And because of that corrupt nature, man lost the power to live righteously. Sin became his lord. He became a slave — not only to sin itself, but to everything that comes with it: pain, lack, sickness, death and every negative thing you can think of. Those are the results of sin. And because of them,...
5 days ago • 5 min read
Most of us were taught to think of sin as a list of things we do. Lying. Stealing. Losing your temper. Do enough of those and you're a sinner; avoid them and you're doing fine. But the Bible paints a deeper picture. Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." All. Not most. Not the especially bad ones. Every man, woman and child. So how did all sin? Not every person has done the same wrong thing. The answer is the key to understanding what really happened when...
6 days ago • 5 min read
Look in a mirror and what do you see? A face, a body, maybe a few things you'd like to change. That's what most of us see. And that is exactly where the enemy wants your attention to stay. One of the oldest deceptions of the devil is to keep shifting our focus away from the spirit. He knows that a man has a spirit, a soul and a body, but he wants you to think you are only the body. He wants you to treat yourself as all flesh. Why? Because your spirit is crucial to your success and your...
7 days ago • 5 min read
If you just gave your heart to Christ, this is one of the very first things you should know. And if you've been a Christian for years, let it be a reminder. You need to understand what has happened to you. Christianity is the beginning of a new life. You have crossed over from darkness into light. And it isn't a small life. It's a full, abundant life in which we are promised to reign. Romans 5:17 says that "they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in...
8 days ago • 6 min read
In my last teaching, we talked about receiving the life of God: believing with our heart unto righteousness and confessing with our mouth unto salvation (Romans 10:9–10). Today I want to go a step further and look at the fullness of the life we've received. Here's the foundation. In salvation, God gave you eternal life. That isn't a small, spiritual add-on. It's the full and very life of God Himself. This life enables you to live above sin and all its consequences: sickness, pain, poverty,...
9 days ago • 6 min read