26 So I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air. 27 Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:26-27 CSB) If you have ever...

7 Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, (Galatians 6:7 CSB) It is easy, when a desire comes over us to give in. In fact, it is the easiest thing in the world just to indulge ourselves. Yea, we may have...

15 But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ. 16 From him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of...

16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s possessions—is not from the Father, but is from the world. (1 John2:16 CSB) Want and pride, two of the key drivers in just about everything we do in this life....

19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. (John 15:19 CSB) Have you considered that your bad day might just be because the...