Christ In You Gives You Confidence
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and...
Monthly Archive: October 2012
Responding to the Holy Spirit
“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13 NASB) God wants you to trust his guidance, so he sent you a Guide. When you became a believer, God placed the Holy Spirit within...
You Bring Joy to God
“His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.” (Ephesians 1:5 NLT) Say the following as a prayer. In...
Breakfast with Bonhoeffer: God works through our messy, inconsistent faith
“Breakfast with Bonhoeffer” is different from any other book I’ve written. I structured it like a novel, hoping to show the reader how God works through our often messy and inconsistent faith. It tells the story of...
Jesus Calls Us to Himself
“Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.” Matthew 7:21 (TEV) Being a disciple of Jesus doesn’t mean...
God requires risky obedience
“Risk your life and get more than you ever dreamed of.” (Luke 19:26 MSG) If God tells you to take a step of faith but you hesitate to take it until he shows you what the second...
We must remember the Truth is a person
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (NIV) The enemy’s great lie is that we must remain separate from the Father....
Breakfast with Bonhoeffer
Breakfast with Bonhoeffer tells the story of how I struggled with faith as my entire life seemed to crumble around me. I was laid off three times, diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, divorced by my wife, which...
Jesus knows you can have exceptional faith
“Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you...
Jesus says you are the light of the world
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives...