“But I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.” (Romans 7:23) Do you ever have those times when you can’t believe what you just said, or worse yet, what you just did? Sure you have. We all know there’s no such thing as a perfect Christian, but I hate those looks I get from other believers when they realize I’m not […]

“And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:8) Here’s a question for your Sunday School class. Ask your classmates how many of the seven deadly sins they can name. (Just in case you don’t know, they are pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lust, anger, covetousness, and sloth.) One of these sins is described as an abomination to God. Do you know which one? I recently saw it played out in an exchange I had with […]

“I said, ‘O Lord, have mercy on me, heal me, for I have sinned against you.’ ” (Psalms 41:4) I invite you to visit my website at www.devotions.com the next time you’re surfing the Internet. It’s one of the most popular Internet sites for Christian devotions and features just about every column I’ve ever written, almost 400 of them. A couple of years ago, my wife’s former pastor from her hometown suggested we offer an email devotion from out website. Today, we have over 570 subscribers. If you […]

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Have you ever heard of an idiom? Those of us who took a foreign language in high school or college have because in every language of the world, there seems to be a number of words and phrases that take on a different meaning than the words mean by themselves. For example, the word “cool” doesn’t […]