In James 3, 4, & 5, James cautions us as to what it looks like to live a life in full surrender to Jesus. We need to ask the Lord for help. He will empower us with His grace and power as we abide in Him, rest in Him, and walk with Him. The more time we spend in His Word, soaking up His truth into our hearts, the more He will empower us with self-control. We are not to judge others. We have never been in their shoes and don't know what they are going through. God does. That is why He is the o...
Jul 01, 2025•26 min
In James 1 & 2, we learn that trials and suffering are a part of life. Trials produce endurance and strengthen our faith. It's a joy to walk through trials knowing God is using it for our eternal good and the further spreading of His testimony - His Kingdom expansion. God is with us in every step and every exhale. He will carry us through the trials and suffering we go through. He will lift us up. He is our Rock. He will provide everything we need. Ask Him. Seek Him. We don't have to have it...
Jun 30, 2025•21 min
In Hebrews 11, 12, & 13, we learn what true faith is and looks like. Faith does not just believe Jesus is the Son of God, it responds obediently to His voice as you continue to draw near to Him. Faith requires you to trust God for every outcome, release control, and surrender all to Him. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Faith is knowing you are walking on a solid, unshakable Rock. God's love is a consuming fire and He will light up your life. Just keep pressing on, running towa...
Jun 27, 2025•30 min
In Hebrews 9 & 10, the life-saving and much better New Covenant, that can only be entered into by surrendering to Jesus, is emphasized. Through Jesus, we receive redemption, restoration, and the cleansing complete salvation from sin that only Jesus offers. He died for the sins of the world once and for all - it is finished. It's not about us or anything we do, it's all about Jesus and everything He has done. We can choose to draw near to the heart of God and live freely in His love. Jesus' d...
Jun 26, 2025•25 min
In Hebrews 7 & 8, it is emphasized that Jesus is the guarantee of a better Covenant, a better hope, and a better priesthood. He is better than the law. He fulfilled all of it. He came as the eternal sacrifice for the sins of the world. When He died for our sins, the veil separating humankind from the presence of God was completely split in two. We are now allowed full access to Jesus, our eternal High Priest. Jesus will always save those who repent and surrender to Him as their Lord and Savi...
Jun 24, 2025•24 min
(Jude 1-4; 14-25) If you have breath in your lungs, Jesus is calling to you. You are invited to spend eternity with Him. It's up to each of us to answer the call and accept His invitation of life. It's up to us to repent and run from sin and fall into the arms of our loving Savior. We are each responsible for the choice of RSVPing to God's invitation to become a part of His family and sit with Him forever at His family table.
Jun 21, 2025•15 min
In Hebrews 5 & 6, we learn the Lord is our High Priest who relates to us personally. During times of suffering, we learn to lean into the Lord deeper and stronger. The vastness of His love for us becomes more real and we are drawn closer and closer to Him as we fall more and more in love with Him. Suffering is going to happen this side of heaven. The difference is whether we suffer with Jesus holding us tightly in His mighty arms or if we suffer on our own and in our own strength. I prefer t...
Jun 20, 2025•20 min
In Hebrews 3 & 4, the author reminds us of all the amazing things Jesus poured out for us through His sacrifice - His death - on the cross that we all deserve. We need to encourage each other every single day in our faith and trust in Jesus. Jesus is better than anything this world will ever offer. He offers a better hope, a better Covenant, a better promise, a better sacrifice, better provisions, and an eternal glorious home that cannot begin to compare this this temporary world. Jesus is g...
Jun 19, 2025•20 min
Hebrews 1 & 2 reveals that Jesus is the heir of all things. He is the Creator of the universe. He lived on earth as the human flesh of God. He shines with God's glory and holds all things together by His command. Jesus died to cleans and purify us of all sin. He rose from death and sat down at the right hand of God in heaven. He is our High Priest and Mediator. Jesus holds all things together. He holds us together. He sustains us by His powerful Word. He knows every detail of our lives and e...
Jun 18, 2025•20 min
In Philemon, we see a beautiful story of redemption and forgiveness. We see what Jesus has done for us and what He does in us and through us in these verses. Jesus doesn't want to lose a single soul. He has commissioned us to make disciples to the ends of the earth, sharing with everyone we know that Jesus came to earth - 100% God and 100% human - to serve us with His life as the perfect sacrifice to abolish any and all sin from our lives. He took our sins upon Himself so He could cover us with ...
Jun 17, 2025•15 min
In Titus 1, 2, & 3, Paul encouraged Titus to stay true to the Word of God - the truth of the Gospel of Jesus. Jesus + Nothing = Everything. When we surrender our hearts and lives to Jesus, our lives look different. Our works don't earn salvation or our way into heaven. We work different and live different because of the powerful grace of Jesus working in and through our lives. The Lord will strengthen us as we pursue Him and worship Him authentically, with all our guts. His power gives us st...
Jun 16, 2025•19 min
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11) Everyone will know and see when Jesus returns. Now is the time to choose Jesus. Now is the time to tell everyone you know about Jesus and His offer of saving grace. Now is the time to stay mission minded and laser focused on Jesus, pursuing Him desperately with all our guts. We should live every second of every day as though Jesus could return in the next 10 seconds, because He could and He might.
Jun 15, 2025•16 min
In 2 Timothy 3 & 4, Paul warned of difficult times ahead: growth of deception and self-love, increasing lack of godliness, and the certainty of persecution. Paul reminds us we are fully equipped for these difficult days. We have all we need in the Word of God and His Spirit within us. As we press into the Lord, He will equip and empower us to be ready for anything and everything He brings us to. Stand firm in Jesus and do not waiver. Cling to Him with all your guts. Fight the good fight, fin...
Jun 14, 2025•22 min
2 Timothy is Paul's final letter to Timothy. In chapters 1 & 2, he encourages Timothy to continue sharing the Gospel of Jesus boldly relying on the Holy Spirit's power within him. Paul was in chains, in the bottom of a dark, cold cell, and he still wrote letters of encouragement to others. He remained mission minded and laser focused on Jesus regardless of his circumstances. Jesus commissioned each of us to spread the Gospel message of salvation, making disciples to the ends of the earth. He...
Jun 13, 2025•20 min
In 1 Timothy 5 & 6, we see the caring and nurturing heart of our Almighty Father. He looks after His children and calls us to care for each other as well. Jesus pours out His incomprehensible love for us and we are to unselfishly love and care for others as well. So many things in this world fight for our attention. We need to flee from these distractions and stay laser focused on Jesus and the mission He has set before us. Run from the worldly things that will all burn away and pursue Jesus...
Jun 12, 2025•17 min
In 1 Timothy 3 & 4, Paul reminds Timothy God is a God of order and peace. Paul's heart reflected God's heart - to maintain peace in God's household, the Church of the Living God, the pillar and foundation of truth. Your life is an outward sign of your inward relationship with the Lord. Your life reflects the status of your love and devotion to following Jesus. As you pursue Jesus with all your guts, He gives you all you need to walk in His righteousness. Paul was honest about the struggles T...
Jun 10, 2025•15 min
(Philemon 4-21) We are Onesimus in this letter. We are slaves to sin and death. After trusting his life to Jesus and receiving the powerful saving grace of Jesus, Onesimus was changed forever. Much like Paul interceded for Onesimus, Jesus intercedes for us at the Throne of God. God saves us through His powerful grace and grace is love that pays a price. Jesus paid the price. In and through Jesus, we are free from sin. We are free from bondage. We are free to dance in the powerful grace and victo...
Jun 07, 2025•11 min
In 1 Timothy 1 & 2, Paul remembered his life before Jesus and shared the testimony of the power of Jesus grace and mercies working in his life. Because Paul shared what Jesus had done in his life, others were impacted and transformed for eternity, bringing honor and glory to God. We are all called and commissioned to share the Gospel, testify of the power of Jesus and how He has impacted your life, and let the Holy Spirit lead and guide you to people who need to hear it. Speak boldly and con...
Jun 06, 2025•28 min
In 2 Thessalonians 1, 2, & 3, we are encouraged to press on in the work of the Lord - don't become idle. We need to stand strong, stand firm, and remain unwavering in faith as we continue to spread the Gospel message of salvation to the world around us. Jesus is radiated and glorified through our lives when we live a lifestyle of surrender and worship before the Lord. Jesus is returning. We are living in the end of the end days. No one knows the exact day or the hours of Jesus' return and if...
Jun 06, 2025•23 min
In 1 Thessalonians 3, 4, & 5, Paul spoke words of encouragement and encouragement is critical. Encouragement brings life to a person's soul. Paul encourages us to live our lives pursuing Jesus and His holiness. As we do, God will grow our faith and sanctify us for His glory and our good too. He encourages us to be ready for Jesus' return. Jesus can return in any moment - like a flash - and we need to live every day knowing that is true. We need to be ready, be awake, be prepared. We don't kn...
Jun 04, 2025•26 min
In 1 Thessalonians 1 & 2, Paul encourages us to testify to others with the Holy Spirit's power and passion as we share the truth of Jesus to the world around us. The power of Jesus changes lives now and for all eternity. It's not about you or me or how well we can articulate a message. It's the passionate boldness of sharing the truth of Jesus with the power of the Holy Spirit within us. It's the testimony of the power of Jesus working in our own personal lives and sharing that with others. ...
Jun 03, 2025•21 min
In Colossians 3 & 4, Paul reminds us we are loved by Jesus. We are loved by the Creator of the cosmos. We are loved by the one and only true and living God Almighty. We are loved more than we can comprehend. The enemy will try to lie to us and try to get us to believe we are not loved, not worthy, and helpless. The Word of God proves every lie of the enemy is nothing but a lie from the pit of Hell, but we need to know the truth of God's Word so we don't fall for the lies. We need to know tha...
Jun 02, 2025•20 min
(Colossians 1:15-2:3) The way we live bears fruit of what we truly believe. God is not human so He cannot lie. We serve a Holy God and that means He cannot sin. Everything God has ever said is absolutely true. If we truly believe God cannot lie and all His promises are true, it should affect how we live our daily lives. God wants us to experience a true and real relationship with Him, fully and wholeheartedly. He wants us to experience His presence like never before and keep falling more and mor...
May 31, 2025•16 min
In Colossians 1 & 2, we are reminded that sometimes in this crazy world we live in, where truth so easily becomes blurred, we need to stop and re-set. We need to refocus and realign our vision back to Jesus. We need to pray continually and go to God's Word to strengthen and grow our faith and the truth of who Jesus is and what He has done for us. Jesus created everything. He holds all things together. The cells that hold our bodies together are even shaped like the cross of Jesus. He holds a...
May 31, 2025•21 min
In Philippians 3 & 4, Paul testifies of how Jesus has transformed his life. His life goals now consisted of knowing Jesus personally, experiencing the power of the resurrection of Jesus, and partnering with Jesus in the mission of saving souls for eternity - even if it means suffering and death in this temporary world. He stayed laser focused on Jesus through every hardship and victory he experienced because knowing Jesus fully and spreading the truth of Jesus to the world around him was the...
May 29, 2025•20 min
In Philippians 1 & 2, Paul wrote to the church in Philippi with joy and gratitude. He encouraged them to continue pursuing Jesus, heart and soul, and keep living in humble love and unity together as one body glorifying God's great Name. He encourages us that no matter what happens in this life, we can and should give all glory to Jesus. No matter what happens on this temporary earth, we are held safely in His hands if we have surrendered to His Kingship. We need to stay laser focused on Jesu...
May 28, 2025•26 min
(Philippians 1:12-30) When life gets hard, we need to trust God. We need to pray and invite God into the problems we face. We need to get on our knees before the Lord and trust God with every outcome. We need to ask God for His help, His comfort, His joy, and His peace. We need to praise His glorious Name for all the good things He has done for us. With the power of the Holy Spirit within us, we can rejoice in the storms of life knowing God has us held tightly through every wave that comes....
May 24, 2025•15 min
In Ephesians 5 & 6, Paul reminds us what it looks like to live a lifestyle of surrendered worship before the Lord. He reminds us we are to pursue Jesus, heart and soul, imitating the example He gave us when He came to earth for us. We are to walk in the Love and Light of Jesus as a fragrant offering of worship to the Lord. We are to selflessly think of others. Turn off the "selfy" mode and look to Jesus instead. As we choose to humbly abide in Jesus, His love will overflow from our lives, gl...
May 23, 2025•19 min
In Ephesians 3 & 4, Paul knelt before God the Father and prayed. He prayed for Christ followers to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit. He wanted us to understand and comprehend just a glimpse of the depth of God's great love for us and be filled with His fullness. Paul cared about the spiritual health of others, he pressed in and pressed on, and he got on his knees and cried out honestly before God Almighty for the faith of others. Even while imprisoned for sharing the truth ...
May 22, 2025•20 min
In Ephesians 1 & 2, we are reminded that God sent Jesus into the world for us to offer Himself as a sacrifice for us to free us from sin and bondage. He came to offer us a free gift for us to receive. Every good thing we have in life is because of God the Father. He pours out goodness for us out of His great love for us. He wants good things for us and hates sin because it destroys every part of our lives. He wants us to receive His love and allow Him to lavish His powerful grace upon us. He...
May 20, 2025•25 min
