Journey with Hope

Believing is not faith. One of the misunderstandings today among many people is that simple believing in God, that He exists, makes...

Why Spiritual Self‑Examination Matters We live in a world where it’s easy to coast through life without asking hard questions. But...

All of us were born. If you are reading this right now, then you are alive. At least you are alive in the scientific sense. Some of...

Do you ever feel like you are beyond hope or that your past is so terrible that God cannot use you for His kingdom? Many of us are...

How many times do we think we can manage life on our own, without God? We may not be actively thinking, "I don't need You, God," but by...

Rules, rules and more rules. Christianity is often seen as just a series of boxes to check. Things to do and things not to do. In...

In Matthew 21:28-32, we have the Parable of the Two Sons. In this chapter, Jesus is teaching many things to the Pharisees. The...

So much focus today is on how we humans are all very different. Actually we have much more in common than we might think. Paul reminds...

If you were promised a great inheritance from your father how would you treat it? An example can be found in Genesis 25, where we read...

Charles Spurgeon wrote that at the age of 15, "... that trumpet of conviction, which aroused my soul to think of eternal things, sounded...

Like many people, I sometimes tend to avoid passages in the Bible that I have trouble understanding. However, with prayerful study of...

Why do we regret our sins? Why do we look back with sorrow over the mistakes that we have made? Is it because we have offended God or...

In Isaiah 63:16, Isaiah refers to God as our Father, our Redeemer from Everlasting. In the Old Testament, the meaning of redemption,...

Many times today we are reminded by people that Jesus showed love to tax collectors and sinners by eating and drinking with them. This...

How many of us have read the book of Lamentations? I have heard very few sermons on it. It is a very short book with only five chapters....

Going to a wedding can be a stressful event for people. What to wear? Maybe you don't own a lot of dressy clothes so what do you do?...

"For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death." 2...

Even Bible heroes failed—Noah got drunk, Abraham lied, Moses struck the rock, David took Bathsheba. We ALL stumble. But God uses repentant hearts. Stay humble, stay dependent on Jesus. Your failure isn’t final.

In telling the story of Paul's conversion Paul said that Jesus spoke to him on the road to Damascus. In Acts 26:14 Paul says that Jesus...

I heard a pastor say recently that we have confused love for people with being friends with our enemies. I thought about this a lot. ...