“Every man must choose his world.” With these six words, A.W. Tozer powerfully calls us to make a decision. The choice? To believe only what we can perceive through our senses or to believe God and the invisible realities He says exist. Tozer’s point is simply this: we can choose to believe that we live…

You know what it’s like when you are looking forward to something you enjoy. Say, the trip you are planning over spring break. Perhaps this year you are going to spend five days at Cocoa Beach in Florida. You’ve been there before, so you have a good picture in mind of what to expect: feeling…

In one sense we have emerged from the season of Advent. In another sense, believers in Jesus live in a perpetual season of Advent. In our practices as a church, we observe “Advent” in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Advent is a time of anticipation of and preparation for the birth of Jesus, the…

As I was doing my daily Bible reading today, I read the beginning chapters of Jeremiah. In verse 8 of chapter one, I found this promise the LORD made to Jeremiah: “‘Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,’ declares the LORD.” God was sending Jeremiah, possibly a…

We are living at an historic moment. October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation! So, what happened in October 1517? And why pay any attention? Well, actually the Reformation spanned a much larger period of time than one month. But on October 31, 1517 in Germany Martin Luther took a very bold…