Jesus said it plainly, and most people would rather not sit with it. ESV “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” (Matthew 7:14) Not complicated. Not metaphorical in a way that softens it. Few will find the way to life. I … Read more
Most people hear this verse and stop short. It sounds, on the surface, like Jesus is either being modest or denying something important about Himself. NASB “And Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.’” (Mark 10:18) A few years ago, a friend of mine who … Read more
Someone calls a situation a “Jezebel spirit,” and the room either nods knowingly or gets very quiet. What I have noticed is that people using the term are often responding to something genuinely real: manipulation, false teaching, a spiritual dynamic resistant to correction. The instinct is not wrong. But the label is worth examining, because … Read more
There is a moment most believers can point to. Not always dramatic, not always visible on the outside, but real: the moment something shifted at the root. I have heard it described in different ways. One person said it felt like lights coming on in a room she had navigated in the dark for years. … Read more
Most people encounter this topic in one of two ways. Either someone close to them has been drawn into practices the Bible calls off-limits: tarot readings, visits to psychics, dabbling in mediumship. Or they have been there themselves, curious about what lies beyond the veil, looking for answers or a connection that the ordinary world … Read more
We have all read these words at weddings or seen them framed on walls. Most of us know them. Fewer of us have measured ourselves against them on an ordinary Tuesday: a difficult conversation, a resentful morning, a relationship that has asked more than we had to give. NIV “Love is patient, love is kind. … Read more
Most of us have held this verse like a lifeline in a hard season. When money was short, when the job fell through, when the medical bill arrived, and the bank account said otherwise, Philippians 4:19 was what someone handed us or what we reached for ourselves. NIV “And my God will meet all your … Read more
The night before the crucifixion, Jesus prayed for you. He prayed for everyone who would come to faith through the testimony of His first disciples, which includes everyone reading this. The heart of that prayer was a single request: ESV “That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I … Read more
Jesus said something at a dinner table that the religious establishment never recovered from. NIV “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mark 2:17) To understand what Jesus meant, you need the scene, the people at the table, those watching … Read more
Scripture treats the mind as a battleground with a winner and a loser, and the outcome shapes everything else. These 23 verses are organized around two questions: what does the unrenewed mind cost you, and what does the renewed mind give you? The Mind Left to Itself What the mind produces without God’s governing influence … Read more