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God breaks through barrenness of your spiritual winters with the renewal and new growth of spiritual spring in your heart and life.

Christ's triumph over death means that even in the winter seasons of your life, you can say " Death, where is thy sting?"

This passage puts before us a serious caution about sin's deceitfulness and an essential call to community that reinforces the power of indwelling sin as well as our need for daily ministry of the body of Christ.

How does a church keep its standards high and yet keep drawing sinners near? By keeping the gospel at the center of all it thinks, says, and does.

When faced with the demands of the Sermon on the Mount, sinners should be terrified. Yet when faced with the Savior who fulfilled all God's demands on their behalf, a sinner's terror should turn to admiration and obedience.

Jesus makes the last of his kingdom comparisons in the Sermon on the Mount by comparing two builders--the wise and the foolish. The foolish man builds a life that won't stand the storms sent to test it. But the wise man builds a life that will last...

Not every profession of faith in Christ is a saving profession. Jesus shows us how two people can say many of the right things, but unless he does the will of God, he will not be given entrance to the kingdom of heaven.

Things aren't always what they seem. Sometimes the best lies are hidden deep within the truth. Jesus warns us against false teachers who are both deceitful and destructive. Yet he also shows us how we can discern the difference between those teachers...

Jesus invites us to make a decision about entering his kingdom and how we will then live. We each stand at a crossroad, and the road we choose to travel will have an eternal consequence. Will you choose the broad road that leads to death or the narrow...

Sometimes we don't know how to practically live out the perspectives and priorities of God's Kingdom. However, Jesus gives us counsel, comfort, and a course of action as we seek God's discernment.

Unfair, overcritical, and harsh judgments can have a profound effect on our lives and the lives of others. Therefore, it is important that citizens of God's kingdom bring their perspective of judging others in line with His.

God doesn't want you to be overly concerned about basic things that you have no control over anyway. Rather, he wants you to depend on him to provide because he cares deeply for you.

Citizens of God's kingdom should share His perspective toward the most important things in life. Jesus helps us evaluate our perspective toward earthly possessions by confronting what our hearts treasure, what our eyes fancy, and where our allegiances...

Just because you look like you are humbly serving God, doesn't mean that your devotion is real. Why you do something is just as important as what you do. Therefore, if you practice your righteousness before people in order to be seen by them, you will...

Just because you look like you are humbly serving God, doesn't mean that your devotion is real. Why you do something is just as important as what you do. Therefore, if you practice your righteousness before people in order to be seen by them, you will...

Just because you look like you are humbly serving God, doesn't mean that your devotion is real. Why you do something is just as important as what you do. Therefore, if you practice your righteousness before people in order to be seen by them, you will...

One of the most profound ways you can reflect the fact that you are truly a child of God is not by simply loving your neighbor, but by loving your enemy as well.

When you are wronged and your rights are infringed upon, your response should not be vindictive or resentful. Rather, Jesus wants you to be generous and forgiving toward those who afflict you.

God delights in the truth. Those who follow Christ must be people of the truth. Therefore, it is better not to make a promise than to make a promise you can't or don't intend to keep. So, say what you mean, and mean what you say.

Jesus shows how the requirements of God's Law go much deeper than many people realize or are willing to admit. Impure thoughts are just as sinful as impure deeds.

Jesus shows how the requirements of God's Law go much deeper than many people realize or are willing to admit. The sins of anger and murder have the same source and bear the same awful consequence.

As followers of Jesus Christ, God has called us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, to be distinct from and influential in the decaying and darkened society around us.

If your life reflects the spiritual attitudes of the Beatitudes then you will be persecuted. But you will also be blessed with the joy that comes from knowing you belong to God's family and are counted worthy of suffering for Jesus' sake.

Since Christ has made a way for peace to exist between God and man; those who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord become his ambassadors of peace, declaring his message of reconciliation.

God desires his people to be clothed with a purity that comes from within—a purity of heart. Such purity is a necessary quality of all who will see the Lord and dwell in his kingdom.