True freedom comes from trusting God completely, not from creating our own loopholes and escape routes.  Read More

We become what we worship. Our daily lifestyle reveals who or what we truly worship.  Read More

Big words with no follow through reveal a heart issue. God calls us to mean what we say and do what we promise.  Read More

Trying to bypass accountability through technicalities doesn't fool God. He sees the heart behind our words.  Read More

When we hide behind spiritual excuses to avoid commitment, we're using God as a loophole instead of honoring Him with honesty.  Read More

Integrity means being whole — the same person in public and in private. It’s not the foundation of our lives; Jesus is. But integrity is what keeps our lives aligned with the foundation we’ve built on Him.  Read More

"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age." "So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." Picture a house that's been built on a foundation meant only to meet minimum building codes...  Read More

"Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth." Imagine a farmer standing at the edge of his field with a single seed in his hand. He could ask, "What's the minimum I need to plant to say I farmed today?" Or he could ask, "What'...  Read More

"For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?" Think about building a house. A contractor comes to your property and says, "I'll lay the foundation if you pay me. I'll fram...  Read More

"He said to them, 'Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.'" Every farmer knows that soil can become so hard that even the best seed can't take root. What starts as soft, fertile ground gradually hardens because of neglect, weather, and time. The same thing happens to our hearts, and Jesus knew exactly why the Pharisees neede...  Read More

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." In Jesus' day, men were divorcing their wives because the bread was burned or because they found someone prettier. These weren't ...  Read More

"And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria... Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word." Have you ever watched a farmer plant his field? He doesn't carefully place each seed in a perfect little pot. No, he scatters those seeds all across the field, sometimes in what look...  Read More