With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — Ephesians 4:2
It seems like effort, sweat, and hard work have become dirty words in western Christianity. The Holy Spirit reaches out with his truth to our …
Daily Pray
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — 1 Thessalonians 4:3
The word “sanctified” sounds very “churchy,” doesn’t it? It means to be different from other people and set aside for God’s use and glory. We …
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, — Galatians 4:4
Wow! What a deep passage with so many great ideas! Let’s write it in plain English so we can not only understand it but also …
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. — Colossians 4:5
Jesus told us that we will have to answer to God for every thoughtless word we say to other people (Matthew 12:36-37). We need to …
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. — Galatians 4:6
The sounds “ab, ab, ba, ba” are often the first words that babies say. In Jesus’ time, that was the name that babies gave to …
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. — 1 Thessalonians 4:7
In a world where people live by different rules, it’s easy to ignore the call to be holy. Satan gets us to compare our lives …
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — James 4:7
James always crams a lot of information into a small space. Let’s pay attention to what this call to holiness is all about: getting closer …
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. — Philippians 4:9
I don’t know about you, but I really hope that what I say and teach shows up in my life. What a great thing to …
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; — Romans 3:9
In Romans 3, Paul makes it clear that none of us can approach God’s level of perfection and purity. What is the plan? What can …
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. — Galatians 3:10
We can’t keep God’s Law perfectly, so God gave us a sacrifice that makes us righteous and pays for our sins. God’s love is so …