Job: Double for All Your Trouble

Job: Double for All Your Trouble

Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “You can’t have a testimony without a test.” If anyone ever embodied that truth it was Job. He lost everything but his faith. His life was shaken to the core, but he didn’t waver despite …
Victory Even in Your Valleys

Victory Even in Your Valleys

Life is full of peaks and valleys, ups and downs, highs and lows. While we’d love to live on the mountaintop all the time, that’s not reality. You will face some dark valleys in life, so don’t be surprised or …
Renewing the Altar Experience

Renewing the Altar Experience

An altar is a place where God alters our lives. Altars are mentioned over 400 times in the Bible indicating their prominent role in lives of God’s people. Most Old Testament characters built or used them to offer animal sacrifices …
Paul’s Peace In Prison

Paul’s Peace In Prison

Imagine you’re on death row. Your only crime is preaching the Gospel. Your execution looms over you like an ominous cloud. You are confined to a dingy, dark, dank dungeon. To make matters worse, there is no plumbing in your …
12 Ways God Speaks To Us

12 Ways God Speaks To Us

Skeptics say God doesn’t speak anymore. Even some Christians claim God only speaks through the Bible. Really? Did He get laryngitis and lose His voice? Did He change? Did He cease being God? Malachi 3:6 (NKJV) affirms, “For I am …
Past the Point of No Return

Past the Point of No Return

Too many people are stuck in the valley of decision. Indecisive about following Christ, they straddle the fence and leave themselves enough wiggle room to have one foot in the church and one foot in the world. This lack of …