What do we give our attention to during each day? There are countless things in today’s world that compete for our attention, and after they gain our attention, they compete for influence. Knowing when to turn away our attention from such things centers on knowing Jesus. When we are in personal relationship with Jesus, we know his words, we know his heart, and we know what is and is not of him. Paul wrote to the Galatians, “Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves

In times when fear, anger, and division are highest, our internal dialogue can actually be the most plaguing thing in our lives. While we see things going on around us, and even to us, that cause fear, it is our own thoughts on them that decide how we react. Will we react with compassion, confidence, and righteousness or with judgment, hate, and further division? When times are toughest, we must remember that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. In Romans, it says

When we turn on the news or scroll through the internet, there is never any shortage of things to be angry about. Past that, there are often things that cause alarm, and fear, in us because we do not know what will happen in the future. While it is good, and Biblical, to be engaged in the world and always seeking to spread the message of hope and redemption that is in Jesus, if we cannot do so without becoming angry or divisive, it is time to hit the pause button. The God we

There’s been a lot in the news in the past years, as well as recently, to cause alarm, stress, and frustration. At some point, most of us have likely thought to ourselves, “Where do we go from here?” When we look for encouragement in the Bible, one of the best places to look are Paul’s letters. He wrote to churches across the region for many reasons, but one was to encourage them in their faith. He opens his letter to the Philippians this way: “And I am sure of this, that he