HOW TO TUNE YOUR MORAL COMPASS 

God has given each person an internal moral compass. The conscience can be a powerful inner voice that helps guide our behavior, but it can also be beaten into silence so that it no longer warns us that what we are about to do is wrong.    The best way to...

20/20 Spiritual Vision 

The old idiom says that every cloud has a silver lining. But when the “bad weather” of life’s trials come your way, what do you see—the storm clouds or the silver lining?  It may be true for some people that there are few silver linings in their circumstances,...

LEARN FROM JOSEPH 

Joseph suddenly lost everything—his family, his home, his freedom (Genesis 37). We can only imagine how stunned and rejected he felt when his brothers sold him into slavery, and he was taken to Egypt.   Life is like that at times. Sudden changes usher us...

A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING 

The gift of salvation is transformative – it makes “all things new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Yet this marvelous restoration of what God intended for us in the beginning, before sin entered the human heart, cannot be fully appreciated when it is first experienced because...

TRUTH IS ALWAYS WITH US 

The Spirit of Truth is with us forever if you are a Christian. He convicts us of sin, leads us to repentence, inclines us to trust in Christ, furthers our progress in godliness, fills us with power and joy, and raises us from the dust of death at the end. Yet the...

The Answer to Every Question 

Doubts or questions about what the future holds should be eased by the simple, powerful, unequivocal statement that opens the Scriptures: In the beginning, God!  The familiar words are compelling in their brevity. The powerful majesty of creation is sketched with...