One of my favorite verses which describes thea dynamic of Christ living in us— again, a favorite— is John 1:16 (NKJV):
And of His fullness we have all received, and...
It looks like Jesus, yet it also looks like you. It looks like you, but it also looks like Him.
When we do something, it’s as if He does it.
That is, we become His vehicle of...
We each express this reality in (at least) four distinct ways.
1. We have the mind of Christ = we have access to what He thinks about a given situation.
1 Corinthians 2:16 (NLT, emphasis...
Acts 11:26 tells us something that’s become commonplace to us but would have been shocking in the first century (NIV, emphasis added):
The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
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The Bible tells us, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
There are two Greek words used in the New...
I don’t know where I first got the thought— “we seem more confident in the enemy’s ability to deceive us— and to steal, kill, and destroy— than we are about...
I want you to notice something— a piece of the Gospel story you may have missed. Once you see it, you’ll never miss it again, though. I promise…
Jesus looked different before and...
I remember going to first grade and knowing that, every single day, regardless of how hard I tried, I was going to get in trouble. It never failed…
I’d find myself talking to my...
The Bible tells us, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Often, when we think of something that is new, we...
If you’ve watched the movie The Wizard of Oz, you know that Dorothy travels down the Yellow Brick Road throughout the course of the film. Eventually, she finds herself in Oz- and meets the...
We often live under the delusion that our life is just about us- and that it’s no one else’s business. However, our decisions affect others in the same way that we affect others when...
Don't judge the entire book by the page you're reading right now. Or even by the sentence.
Often, it takes time to reap the benefit-- or agony-- of current decisions. That is, it works both...