A lot of people question even the idea of Satan. He’s just a horned guy with cloven hoofs from a distant mythology, a costume possibility for a Halloween party. But we know better than that. Just the same, even believers often miss an accurate understanding about the Devil’s place or his power today. Some find…
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Advice from Atticus Finch, the father, to his daughter in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.) Doing this requires active empathy and living compassion. We’re…
Sometimes we might feel as though we are dancing as fast as we can—and it still isn’t good enough. That’s because pleasing people is exhausting. You could never satisfy everyone. Everyone has their own agenda, and it is usually focused on pleasing themselves. Some live for their own entertainment; still others to make money and…
Sin does real damage. It has caused great destruction in the world as well as in our minds and our relationships. Sin has had a horrible, but inescapable, ripple effect in the pool we’re in. It not only brought forth evil and all kinds of wickedness, but it also perverted our view of God. God…
Prayer is a really big deal. In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus gave us a model for how we should pray. Therefore it is very important that we pay attention to Jesus’ instructions. He didn’t expect us to recite this particular prayer, but to use it to understand how to pray instead. First of all, He…
God designed life to be a happy, happy way. However, evils of all descriptions have intruded into our lives from the macro condition of nations in conflict with nations, race against races, all the way down to the micro view, individuals in conflict with one another and even within our selves as evidenced by the…
In Part Two of this teaching you will learn the content of the wells. That is to say, you will have full knowledge of what exactly is available to you.
In Part Three you will discover the great joys that await you. God promises it this way, “Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.” (Isaiah 12:3) “You will pull up buckets and oh the joy of drinking deeply.” The analogy is that of water which is a primary life-sustaining…
Ever wonder why it’s so easy to identify weaknesses in others? And when we do, what should we do about their weaknesses? How should we respond? There are two fundamentally different ways and they are consequentially very diverse. In this teaching you will discover four reasons why it is crucially important to respond the right…
It’s not nice to be a target, to be assaulted or under attack. Attacks can be mental and emotional, spiritual and social as well as physical. Whatever the case, it’s not nice. It’s even worse if the attacks come from persons you thought were your friends. Oh, the pain of disloyalty and treason. David of…