The single greatest problem in the human heart may well be a question of seating: whose seat one occupies. The throne of the heart was never meant for the self. And when the self is placed there, everything begins to collapse. The following study examines how Scripture calls believers to step down from that seat...
"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." These seven words from Proverbs 23:7 contain one of the most profound truths in all of Scripture. They declare that the inner life, the world of thought, belief, and conviction, is the ultimate determinant of what a person becomes. Not circumstances. Not background. Not even intention....
God has saved us. He has blessed our lives, given us companions, and relieved us of the burden of sin. These are not small things. They are the defining realities of the Christian life. But with these blessings comes an obligation, a sacred duty that has been carried forward from the Day of Pentecost to...
Scripture traces human conflict back past the people involved to the corruption seeking mastery over every heart, including our own.
Judged on Friday afternoon, the cross looked like total defeat. God's greatest victories are often hidden inside His people's darkest hours.
Twelve men saw the same land. The division among them was not about the evidence but about the authority by which evidence is read.
The church must never allow the comfort of salvation to eclipse the purpose of salvation. The commission belongs to the whole church.
Conversion is not the end of God's self-disclosure to a believer. It is the beginning, and the believer is changed by what he keeps seeing.