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I spent Sunday School at a different church yesterday, and we talked about struggling when we don't know what's going to happen. Sometimes we have difficulties and pains in our lives, and while we know God is good, we don't always know why God lets painful things...

King Ahab had been doing just about everything possible to anger God (1 Kings 16:29-33), and because of this God told Ahab through Elijah that it wouldn't rain for years until God said so (1 Kings 17:1). God then told Elijah to go somewhere else (presumably to hide...

Sometimes we get so caught up in wanting to hear commands directly from God's voice that we forget about or ignore the marching orders He's already written for us. Holiness isn't just acting a certain way as if just the doing of a thing makes you holy, holiness is...

Asking hypothetical questions can be a good way to think something out. Got something you're afraid will happen? Talk out that hypothetical with someone and get a grasp on your fear; it might help you overcome that fear. Got something you wonder about but probably...

We don't ever really know if we have more tomorrows than yesterdays, or even if we have more yesterdays than tomorrows. We should not expect God to do supernaturally what we can do naturally. We should just get up and do it! Maybe your relationship with God isn't all...

Sometimes we Christians who grew up in church get too familiar with our little Christianese phrases. I've heard some people say we get inoculated to them. We hear certain words and terms so often that they stop meaning anything, assuming we truly understood what they...