For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. — Romans 5:6
Jesus didn’t die for us because he had high hopes for who we are or what we will become. No, he died for us because …
Daily Pray
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. — 1 John 1:9
Our sins are expendable. But there’s something even better than that. We can be freed from all the stains of sin! That’s incredible: not only …
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. — 1 Peter 2:24
He took on our sins. Not only did he carry them, but he also took the punishment we deserved. His pain was our salvation. His …
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. — Psalm 62:7
Who we are, what happens to us in life, and what we do that matters are all under the control of God. We cannot achieve …
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. — Luke 9:23
All I have to do is find myself. Won’t ever happen. We don’t “find ourselves” or “find our life” by looking for it. We find …
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; — 1 Timothy 2:5
No matter how strong, revered, or significant they may be, we don’t need anyone else to speak to God on our behalf. We are free …
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; — Romans 3:23
I messed up!” We’ve all messed up, now that I think about it. We’re not good enough. We’re not divine. We might be decent, but …
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. — 2 Corinthians 5:21
Righteousness! We only are that. We aren’t morally upright. It is much larger than that. We embody what God intends for us to. Because of …
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; — 1 Corinthians 15:1
The Gospel is a simple story. The Gospel’s grace is wonderful. It’s hard to understand what the Gospel cost. The Gospel’s victory will never end. …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. — Isaiah 53:3
Jesus was everything, but he was reduced to nothing for us. However, the majority of the people he came to save here on earth didn’t …