Last month I had a couple come to me at the church for marriage counseling. Though I’m not a professional counselor, I do meet with couples from time to time…

Every time evil doesn’t get a foothold in our lives, we win. Sometimes bad things happen to us, and we are hurt or betrayed or savaged by life. But there…

Because God sympathizes with us and wants us to experience his power and dignity and image alive and at work in us, he becomes one of us and shows us…

Have you ever heard of a scapegoat? In philosophy, a scapegoat is someone everyone else decides to blame for all their troubles. If you imagine a pre-industrialized village where all…

Mnemonic devices are little strings of words we use to help us remember big concepts. I often find them very helpful in wading through the vast stores of scriptural knowledge…

Victory isn’t about getting what you want. It’s about getting what God wants in you and loving it. It’s his victory, not yours. He died on the cross to spare…

None of the dark powers understood why Christ came into the world. If they had, they wouldn’t have pinned him to the cross (see 1 Corinthians 2.8). Maybe these dark…