There is nothing we can all be more thankful for than our salvation through the completed work of Jesus at the cross. But often, at least for me, my thanksgiving prayers tend to center on earthly blessings. I catch myself from time to time simply giving thanks for what is going right in my life before moving on to other types of prayers. Paul wrote to his protege Timothy a powerful passage in which he glorifies God for saving him, despite what he considered to be overwhelming

The world today talks often about fairness and equality. While they are noble goals, there is no way to achieve them perfectly because this is a world that is ruled by sin. It was such sin that many believed in Jesus‘s time, as well as today still, to be the source for difficult or unfair things happening in peoples’ lives. Job’s companions argued vehemently that he must have sinned to have caused the ruin in his life, and in John, even the disciples asked Jesus who had sinne

In life we all hit seasons when things are just hard. We get tired, we get complacent, we get lazy, and we lose motivation. But God makes no mistakes with where he places us in life — He knows the hairs on our heads and He has ordered our steps. There’s much Scripture that testifies to the power of patience and steady work in faith as a foundational element to God’s earthly blessings, but Jesus puts it most succinctly in John 17. He says, “I have brought you glory on earth by

God's Word tells us that He blesses those who obey His word, but He also apportions varying measures of grace to unbelievers. It is by His mighty hand that we all find provision, whether we recognize it or not, but who can really see even the richest blessings in this world as anything worth having over the riches of heaven? To that end, one of the most challenging facets of a life of faith is facing adversity, even hardship, especially when we see unbelievers seeming to pros