The Secret to Spiritual Growth

We all want to experience spiritual growth and success. Sadly, we all know people who have been spiritual failures in life. Perhaps we regard ourselves that way.

Some have grown in leaps and bounds spiritually, while others have not grown at all. Some have done great things for God and His Kingdom, while others have done nothing.

You might say, "Well, Christianity just didn't work for me!" Listen, Christianity is not...

Two Garden...
Max Lucado

“The Son gives life.” John 5:21


The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine… Which...

January 27

The Great Tribulation

Matthew 24:21 -- "For then there will be a great tribulation, such as not has occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will."


There is coming a day when God will pour out His unbridled wrath upon this earth and its inhabitants. Jesus called that time the "Great Tribulation." It is a seven-year period of "hell on earth" that will begin immediately after Christ comes...

January 10



Our Love Life
Matthew 7:7-11

God's love is without limit, but that doesn't mean His children have no boundaries. While the world argues that Christianity's rules stifle the individual, any good parent will attest that setting limits is part of caring for one's kids. And so is continuing to love them when they break the rules.

This may bring two questions to mind:

• Why does the Lord have so many rules?Scriptural...