What Does Romans 8:28 Mean?

What Does Romans 8:28 Mean? – Romans 8:28 is an especially important and comforting text. It’s important, though, to know what it does and does not mean.

Four Questions to Ask When Making a Big Decision

Four Questions to Ask When Making a Big Decision – “When it’s time to make a big decision, here are four questions to ask as we seek to hear how God might be speaking through several of those avenues in our lives.”

Does God Have Big Plans for Your Life?

Does God Have Big Plans for Your Life? – “While not big by earthly standards, small acts of obedience that go unnoticed can be big displays of God’s glory. He’s doing big things when redeemed people, no longer living for themselves, bring him glory.”

5 Reasons Not to Follow Your Heart

5 Reasons Not to Follow Your Heart – “The truth is, to answer Steve Jobs, there are plenty of good reasons not to follow your heart. Here are five.”

The Judgement of Getting What We Want

The Judgement of Getting What We Want – “I have long been of the view that one way the Lord gives people over to sin in the church is to give them what they want.”

Every Nightmare Starts As A Dream

Every Nightmare Starts As A Dream – “Over the last couple of decades of ministry, I’ve listened to people utter words like these as they suffer from the fresh and painful wounds of self-inflicted sin. Building a fulfilling life takes a million tiny decisions, but only one bad choice can wreck it.”

I Learned to Accept God’s Plan for My Life

I Learned to Accept God’s Plan for My Life  – This short article is filled with deep truth.

God’s Will: How to Help Teens Find the True Purpose for Their Lives

God’s Will: How to Help Teens Find the True Purpose for Their Lives – God’s will is actually three wills.

God Is Good to Bring Afflictions

God Is Good to Bring Afflictions – “God can use many things to open our eyes and bring us to himself, including success and pleasure and beauty. But in a sin-cursed world that begins with the pain of childbirth and ends with death, it is inevitable that we will at some points in our life know what it is to suffer.”

 

Why God Wills Suffering for the Children He Loves

Why God Wills Suffering for the Children He Loves – “God’s always doing a thousand things, and you can see two of them.”

Circumstantial Evidence: A Lesson from Gideon

Circumstantial Evidence: A Lesson from Gideon – “The circumstances of Gideon’s life contradict the word of the Lord. But God is not ruled by circumstances; God defines circumstances.”

How Can We Make Decisions and Know God’s Will?

How Can We Make Decisions and Know God’s Will? – “Scripture gives us the tools to make decisions consistent with God’s will. Though basic and conspicuous, I’ve found four questions especially helpful in leading believers to make God-glorifying decisions.”

Doing What is Right Without Needing a New Word from the Lord

Doing What is Right Without Needing a New Word from the Lord – “We do need to get to know God and his Word better. He has revealed to us what He is like. He has promised us what the future holds and instructed us on how should be living now. We don’t need a new word from God; we need to know His existing word better.”

 

Be Slow to Pull the ‘God Card’

Be Slow to Pull the ‘God Card’ – “Discerning believers must test everything (1 Thess. 5:21). Part of testing is recognizing counterfeits, so to that end, here are four faulty reasons Christians might use the God card.”

Do the Will You Know

Do the Will You Know – “Doing the will you know is necessary for discerning the will you don’t.”

 

What in the World is God Doing?

What in the World is God Doing? – “What is God’s will for my life?”

Against Autonomy

Against Autonomy – “Following your heart doesn’t work. Your heart can tell you what you want. It can’t tell you where to go, or whether what you want is good for you.”

To Whom Shall We Go?

To Whom Shall We Go? – “God loves you too much to leave you feeling comfortable—to always give you what you think you want. He has his eyes set on giving you Himself, which necessarily means surprising you.”

God Plans Your Stops

God Plans Your Stops – “What do you do and how do you react when God interrupts your plans?”

A Light to My Path

A Light to My Path – “[The Bible] doesn’t lay out every step on our journey, but it gives us the light we need to take the next step, trusting in the Light, knowing that He not only knows every twist and turn in our path but also has intentionally and lovingly prepared the way for us.”