MAKE JESUS HAPPY   Love is of God, and only lovers can know God, for everyone that loves is born of God, and knoweth God (1 John 4:7). God is love. Love makes the ultimate sacrifice to win those who would destroy themselves. Love gives and sacrifices so others can live. God loves when He is not …

JUST ONE LOOK CHANGED EVERYTHING   Many years ago, a minister was intent on worshipping God with his whole life. He suffered greatly from his failure and the constant distractions that he battled as he pursued God in worship. Hearing of an aged minister who enjoyed joyful intimacy with God, he sough …

HE IS WITH US   And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No tale bearer can inform on us, no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can com …

THE BURNING HEART AND THE GOD OF FIRE   History has recorded the power of those who were living sacrifices, who gave God their worship, and God gave them His fire. They were persecuted and threatened. They held prayer meetings and attended. They prayed for the courage to continue to preach and …

WHY IS THE CULTURE NOT IMPACTED BY THE CHRISTIAN GOD   In his epistle to the Romans, Paul attributes the moral collapse of humanity to their refusal to worship God. Paul opens his letter to the Romans with a warning about neglecting God’s worship. He concludes the same letter with the call to w …

A MAN TO BE ENVIED               Two thousand years of church history has produced a full spectrum of personalities and particular religious camps. Today there is an array of doctrinal beliefs from holiness to “greasy grace” and from “name it and claim it” prosperity to poverty is godliness. It …

DEPLOYMENT   On any given day and throughout the day, my spirit has the most unusual stirrings. There is an actual fear, not anxiety. There is a stirring, a happening within my spirit. Something is going on, not just inside of me, but in the world. My spirit begins to pray, but I am extremely d …

THE PATHWAY TO THE FATHER Part 2   You have to go through the Son if you want to get to the Father. There is no other way. The only way to know the Father is for the Son to reveal Him. You cannot love the Father and not love the Son. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Fat …

THE PATHWAY TO THE FATHER Part 1   The Father: by love, through love, and for love gives. He gives His greatest. He gives His heart. He does not give His least. He does not give merely enough. He gives gratuitously. He gives without regard to the receivers’ appreciation. He gives because of His …

WHAT IS JESUS LIKE?   Look up into the heavens and behold who has created these things. Gaze into the cosmos, the unsearchable and insatiable powers of the ether, and behold the power of Him who created it all.   The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth. He is n …

THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN   “But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).   The battle against sin is daily! The need for believers is daily!   Sin is never our friend.  It is our greatest enemy.  Sin is ferociou …

HOW DOES FAITH WORK? What makes faith work? You have believed God for things that you did not receive. You have experienced unanswered prayers. Certainly, you have heard many ask, “Why don’t we see the kind of miracles like they saw in the bible?” Today, many claim to believe in God but you cannot s …

LEAVE IT IN GETHSEMANE   Jesus took His disciples over the brook Kedron, to the mount of Olives, to a garden He frequently retired to called Gethsemane. He told His disciples to sit there and pray lest they enter into temptation; saying to them, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death, …