Striving to please God instead of obsessing about crowns

Tremble in the Presence of an awesome God

God's justice is impartial, swift, and uniform.

Jesus of Nazareth, the true peacemaker

Acts 13:47 (NASB) I have made you a light to the Gentiles. Light can be blocked, shut out, diverted, reflected, or absorbed but never...

Dead to sin but alive to God

Matthew 4:19 (NIV) Follow Me. Many believers mistake this verse to mean to follow their minister or preacher. To follow the Lord Jesus...

Luke 5:11 (NLT) They left everything and followed Jesus. The Apostles not only left their families, businesses, and properties behind,...

John 15:16 (NIV) I chose you. It is sheer arrogance on humanity's part to think we control our choices. There is nothing that we have...

1 Kings 19:18 (NIV) Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel. God always reserved the best for Himself. Those words must have been a...

Acts 1:8 (NASB) You shall be my witnesses. A witness doesn't speak of himself but about a person or act he has seen. God has called every...

Matthew 28:6 (HCSB) He is not here! For He has been resurrected, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. If Christ had not...

Mark 3:5 (NLT) He looked around at them angrily, deeply saddened by their hard hearts. There is a version of Christianity that refuses to...

Deuteronomy 29:6 (NIV) You ate no bread nor drank any wine or other fermented drink. A cursory reading of this verse suggests that God...

Luke 16:14 (NLT) The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money.. It is one thing to need money for survival and comfort, and it's another...

Luke 12:59 (NIV) I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny. Every debt has to be settled. We should not expect...

Hebrews 8:12 (NASB) And their sins I will remember no more. This verse does not mean that God has amnesia or dementia. Many saints...

Acts 9:11 (NLT) He is praying to me right now. We are conditioned to believe that praying is a necessary but futile exercise. Nothing is...

John 14:23 (NIV) We will come to him and make our home with him. Nothing plagues humanity like loneliness. People can be lonely in a...

Mark 2:5 (NIV) Son, your sins are forgiven. This is one of the few verses in which the Lord Jesus Christ addresses a fellow human being...