How should we balance contentment with ambition?
That's always the struggle that we have as Christians- we are called to be content. We are called to just be happy where we are. We're called to bloom where we're planted. And the Bible calls us to contentment. The Apostle Paul proclaimed that he can be content whether he has a lot or whether he has...
God delivered Israel, but what about the martyrs?
One of the great truths found in the Old Testament is that as God formed the nation of Israel and he gave them their commands, their covenant of how they were to be faithful to him, if you know your Old Testament, they almost always broke covenant, and yet God continued to return and to return and t...
How do I know if it's time to wait or time to move on?
The issue of waiting on the Lord is one of the weightiest issues in all of the Bible, and particularly is found very often in the Psalms. What we weigh here are the two issues of options that God has sovereignly and in his providence placed before us, and the knowledge that we have from scripture. S...
Heaven: Our Glorious New Home
The Mature Christian Anticipates the Resurrection, Part 1
Paul tells us that we will receive resurrection power through becoming like Him in His death, “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death” (Phil 3:10). We will therefore have the power to live and the power to hope. Paul says...