How Far Are You Travelling Away From God?
My home is in heaven. I’m just travelling through this world. – Billy Graham Naomi’s family travelled away from the land of Canaan during a famine (Ruth 1:1-2). Famines were not a new occurrence at that time. Besides, Israelites were aware that famines are a judgement from God because of their sins (Leviticus 26:19-20). Matthew […]
Are You Comforted By The Holy Spirit?
Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless. – C.H. Spurgeon I remember reading the Bible in high school. But no matter how I read it, what I got was just names, stories about Jesus and the Israelites. I was not able to connect the […]
Is The Work Of The Holy Spirit Evident In Your Life?
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. – Corrie Ten Boom Before I was saved, there were moments in my life that I thought […]
How To Know If Temptation’s Effects Are Good?
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith. Oswald Chambers Our faith, no matter what you believe, is tested every day. Each one of us faces challenges that either make or breaks our faith. Laziness is one of my biggest […]
God’s Word is the Foundation of What is TRUE
When I was a young man, I thought the Bible was nothing more than fiction. Yet in my college I met some students who actually believed it true. To prove them wrong, I set out to show how the Bible was unreliable. I’m pleased to report my failure. I discovered that the Bible is fully […]
Proud or Humble
When God chooses someone to implement your ideas, will you respond with such humility?1 This is a tough situation that we all have faced at some point. Letting another person take credit for our work. What makes this hard is the pride we all have within us. Let us take a look on how David, […]
Greater is He that is in you
There are many false prophets and charlatans out there who claim to have special “gifts” and “powers” as long as they invoke supposedly unpronounceable name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They expel demons, they heal, they bring about prosperity, and worst of all they give false Hope and preach false Gospel to the world who […]
The Greatest Sacrifice
When was the last time you sacrificed something for someone? Last week’s insight, we talked about sin – Are We Sinning? – and what it is the real meaning of it. On this week’s discussion, we will tackle the payment for our sins and compare it to how sins were cleansed in the Old Testament. […]
The Spirit Delivers from the Power of the Flesh
In the previous chapter, – Romans 7:1-6, apostle Paul makes an important point, that the law, – the Mosaic law, has no longer dominion over believers. He says, that “we are become dead to the law by the body of Christ” (Romans 7:4, also Galatians 2:19). Note, please, that the law has not died, rather […]
Are we Sinning?
Introduction According to Merriam Webster, sin is an offense against religious or moral law. We should reflect on this and ask ourselves if we personally define sin this way? Or we define it whether or not if we have hurt other people? The discussion of sin is becoming more vague in our generation. On this […]