March 17, 2023“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9What do you want to be when you grow up? Your answer to that question has probably changed over the years. I know mine has. I remember when my kids were little, ...  Read More

March 16, 2023“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” – Galatians 3:27Are you ready to put on your new clothes? The Bible says for those of us who are “in Christ,” we have been clothed in righteousness. We’ve been given the fruit of the spirit. We’ve shed our grave clothes, and we’ve put on new clothes in Christ. Every time we choose God’s way instead of our old way, ...  Read More

March 15, 2023“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.” – John 17:17When we know what God wants us to do, and we understand who God wants us to be, then we will have the wisdom it takes to walk worthy of the calling we have received in Christ. If you aren’t in God’s Word, you won’t have that wisdom. John 17:17 says, “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.” It’s almost like when we...  Read More

March 14, 2023“Therefore, if anyone has Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17You cannot change your life like Jesus can change your life. That is why Paul doesn’t just say, “Okay, you’re a Christian now, get rid of your bad habits and get some good ones.” John Piper calls that the curriculum in the school of legalism. It’s an idea th...  Read More

March 13, 2023“And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:15Taking off your old self and putting on your new self is not easy. It sounds great, it is very inspiring and ...  Read More

March 12, 2023“So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” – 2 Timothy 2:22Over the last few days, we have talked about letting go. If you want to step into the new life God has for you, it is going to require letting go of the things of your old life. Paul tells us in Ephesians 4 to take off the old and put ...  Read More

March 11, 2023“Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” – Colossians 3:9-10What are you holding on to? What is keeping you from living the life God has called you to live? There is no better plan and purpose for your life than the life God has designed for yo...  Read More

March 10, 2023“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” – Proverbs 27:6What are you holding onto? What is keeping you from living the life God has called you to live? There is no better plan and purpose for your life with no better outcome than the life God has designed for you. So, what are you holding onto that is keeping you from living that life? Is it an ungod...  Read More

March 9, 2023“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” – 1 Corinthians 10:13What are you holding on to? What is keeping you from living the life God has called you to live? There is no better plan and purpose ...  Read More

March 7, 2023“Assuming that you have heard about Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” – Ephesians 4:22-24Recently, we have be...  Read More

March 8, 2023“But that is not the way you learned Christ! Assuming that you have heard about Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.” – Ephesians 4:20-22I want you to understand something. As I say this, I want you to really spend some time thinking about it…Do you realize ...  Read More

March 6, 2023“Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of life. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.” – Ephe...  Read More