32 Some were shouting one thing and some another, because the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. (Acts 19:32 CSB) Our enemy seeks to keep us in a state of confusion. By keeping us in conflict he maintains a state that does...

5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our...

5 Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,or how bones develop in[a] the womb of a pregnant woman,so also you don’t know the work of God who makes everything. (Ecclesiastes 11:5 CSB) There is much about the workings of God that we just do not know. Elsewhere in...

8 But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things[a] that by nature are not gods. 9 But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elements?Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?...

12 when you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:19 CSB) What does it mean when the scripture says we are to be buried and raised? In being buried we are...