Have you ever gotten so caught up in the minutia that you missed the “main thing”? If so, you’re not alone. I know I can easily fall into this, and I know many others the same way. And the passage we are going to look at today suffers greatly from this sort of thing. Hear, [...]

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’ But he answered,” Matthew 4:1-4Matthew 4:1-4English: [...]

When I was young my family moved a lot.  And by a lot, I mean A LOT!  My father’s job required us to relocate often, so much so, that by the time I got to my freshman year, I had already attended 11 different schools in 3 different states.  I remember well the effect that [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice if as you went about your morning, you heard God speaking to you clearly? “Bill, it’s time to take a shower. You don’t want to oversleep again.” “Um, Jill, I think you’ve had enough coffee…” “Ted, I think we should talk for half an hour before you jump on that computer.” [...]

Being a sinner makes me no more an expert on temptation than being an American makes me an expert on the history of America. What God has taught me has come over years of overcoming temptation and failing in temptation. What was has struck me is how simple and complex temptation is. The complexity of [...]