Discipleship

Is It Really Necessary to Memorize Scripture?

Memorizing a chapter is easier than memorizing 18 scattered verses because most chapters are a flowing story.

How Does Understanding God’s Happiness Change Lives?

As much as I believe in the holiness of God, I also believe in emphasizing God’s happiness as a legitimate and effective way to share the gospel with unbelievers or to help Christians regain a foothold in their faith.

How to Find Your Purpose in Life

Here are three ways to discover what God's will is for this season of your life.

What Does ‘Taking Up the Shield of Faith’ Look Like?

We can expect that day in and day out we will be pummeled the flaming arrows of the great enemy of God and man, the devil. These flaming arrows might take many forms, but surely at least one of them is in the form of accusation.

Keeping Anxiety in Check

3 Insights from King David

God Has Good Things Planned for You

Why We Must Depend on the Promises of God in Difficult Times

Why Attending Church Matters

Here is why the church exists: for the glorification of God, the edification of the saints, and the evangelization of the world. In other words, for 'upward, inward, and outward" purposes.

When Christians Get Depressed

Many Christians struggle with depression. Here's how to think about it.

Bring Your Pain

The problem is most leaders don’t get a chance to hurt. And if you hurt, you tend to hurt in isolation.

Assurance of Salvation

Salvation comes by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. There is no other way. We aren’t saved because we deserve it, because God owes us something, or because someone in our family took us to church. We are saved through faith.

When We Savor God’s Word

The godliest, Spirit-filled leaders I know have the Word of God dripping from their lips. They live in the Word—and it’s noticeable. That’s what would happen in our lives if the Word truly were sweet to us.