God forgives the sins, and God forgets the iniquities. But the consequences and loss are recorded in the Bible, God's forever settled in Heaven Word.We on this side of the cross have many advantages, one of them the finished revelation of God...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Think about the unguarded moments of your life as we examine again the life of David. We will see that in David's life--unguarded moments led to sin; sin had inevitable consequences that led to pain; painful godly sorrow brought repentance,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Christ's work on Calvary forever gave us the power and authority so we can stop anything that enslaves us and so that we can start anything He asks us to do!First open your Bible to a Scripture that God is using to help you mortify your old...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As Paul sat to write to the Colossians, he was writing to a group of saints swimming each day against the strongest imaginable currents of the world, the flesh, and the devil.Colosse in Roman Asia was at the cross flow of every type of sin....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Flesh can't defeat flesh. Resolves, promises, fighting and striving in our own power only leads to further defeats--it is only by yielding to the power of the cross. And what is the power of the cross? It is the defeat of death, sin, and Satan...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How bad is sin? Sin is so bad it took God killing His own Son to pay the price of wrath that sin deserved! That is an abstract thought until we see the price of sin in terms we can relate to.Our first portion of Scripture this evening is just...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Four thousand years ago one man made a series of little choices. He was rugged, handsome, hard working, honest, athletic, strong—and proud. From the perspective of those who lived around him he was a great guy—but from the One who...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Life is so distracting, isn’t it? Sights explode before our eyes all day long; sounds and smells flow around us—in fact so much swirls around us and before us, we can get totally distracted. It can become so easy to just float...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Lord of life, the Creator--God Himself, once said something very sobering. He said that the day of our death is better than the day of our birth (Ecclesiastes 7:1-2). Why would He tell us that? Because at the end, after the life is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When I start a biographical study of a person God chose to be included in His Word I always look at the END of their life first. Why is that? Because God said that the way we finish is what counts. It is not how we start the race, but how we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
