Jesus makes all things new, including your past. The "good old days" are still ahead -- no matter what your past looks like.
01/14/2015 by Steve Ridgell
Pay off my biggest debt, restore my most important relationship, and find real meaning and purpose for my life. Now that would be the best New Year ever.
12/31/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Hypocrites intentionally act different from what they say. That is not true about Christians.
04/30/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Phi Ware reminds us that while the one and done principle is true in much of life, Jesus changed it for us in regard to sin.
03/31/2014 by Phil Ware
God does not watch your life looking for a reason to condemn you. He watches to see how he can help you.
03/26/2014 by Steve Ridgell
There is a God who can forgive all the heinous acts anyone can perform. There is a God who allowed His only Son to save all of us by paying the price none of us deserved. There is a God who can take the worst sinner and transfer him or her into a forgiven
03/19/2014 by Bill Brant
It doesn't matter what you have done. Your sins can be washed away. You can start over. God will cleanse you and give you a new life.
02/26/2014 by Tim Archer
Do not stay rooted in your past successes or failures. Instead, embrace the future God has planned for you.
01/29/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Forgiveness is good for you. Resentment is harmful. The choice should be easy, yet we often find ourselves keeping a record of the wrongs done against us.
01/22/2014 by Tim Archer
Satan wants to tattle on us to God so we get what we deserve. God will not let him. Instead, he forgives our sin.
01/15/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Rubel Shelly re-shares a prayer for the New Year and a fresh start on life.
01/02/2014 by Rubel Shelly
Phillip Morrison talks about the greatest Christmas gift of all, the gift of forgiveness.
12/12/2013 by Phillip Morrison
Phil Ware continues his series from Matthew on God's presence in Jesus and this week talks about church as family, not community.
09/30/2013 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware shares the sweet prayer request from one of the translators in a predominantly Muslim nation wracked with violence and bloodshed: "Please pray for the terrorists that they know Jesus Christ like Saul who became Paul :)"
09/16/2013 by Phil Ware
When Aaron made the golden calf, he claimed that it just came out of the fire that way. We can't be that way with our sin. We must own up to what we've done and seek forgiveness.
09/04/2013 by Tim Archer
God offers each of us a pardon, the chance to have our sins blotted out. We can escape the death sentence that sin has placed on us. We can be forgiven. Or we can ignore God's offer and pay the penalty for what we've done.
08/14/2013 by Tim Archer
Rick Brown writes about the prodigal son parable and reminds us that there are two sons who are lost and need to come home to the heart of the father and join the party he longs to throw for both of them!
07/12/2013 by Rick Brown
Phil Ware continues his series on The Story and focuses on the church at Antioch and the grace that empowered the church to be all God intended it to be.
04/14/2013 by Phil Ware
Russ Lawson reminds us that to err is human, that we sin, we mess up, we falter, we are wrong, we make mistakes, but God is in the cleansing and forgiving business and can take care of it if we will admit it and ask for forgiveness.
03/08/2013 by Russ Lawson
Jesus promises new life. Part of new life is getting rid of the old one.
01/30/2013 by Steve Ridgell
Ron Rose writes about redemption and even more of sanctification, the slow work of God to transform us into something new and better and more like Him and reminds us that this is a process.
01/01/2013 by Ron Rose
God loves his son. God loves us. Sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and then raising him from the dead demonstrates that love.
12/26/2012 by Steve Ridgell
Rubel Shelly risks being misunderstood by talking about the frustration of trying to win God's grace by living perfectly and over-analyzing our sins, failures, mistakes, and missteps.
12/04/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Many times, our zeal to condemn sin can make the vulnerable among us feel alienated from God.
11/28/2012 by Tim Archer
Hypocrites say one thing while intending to do another. That is not what Christians do.
09/12/2012 by Steve Ridgell