Believing in Prayer

22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Matthew 21:22 ESV) How can we truly have faith in our prayers? How can we truly expect them to be fulfilled? We all ask these questions and, in truth, because we do many of our prayers may seem to...

A Change in Nature

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so...

Guarded

12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.[a] (2 Timothy 1:12 ESV) There is some controversy around exactly what Paul was referring to...

I am not Ashamed

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16 ESV) How is it that we want to live our lives in a godly manner, living for God, but we do not...

The Esteemed

13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles...