House Key

One of the biggest keys to recognizing and rejecting the enemy's lies is to make yourself so aware of God's truth, grace, and love, there's just no room for any of the enemy's garbage. I know that seems overly simplistic, but maybe that's because it's supposed to be. Your thought life isn't supposed to be …

The Greatest of These

Just a thought . . . There are two ways to defeat hate. The first is to dominate it. Depending on your resources and influence, you may have some success containing, controlling, and coercing it for a while. But persecution often makes hate stronger. Eventually, you'll have to kill it. To eliminate it completely, you …

A Little More Grace

In the book of Zechariah, the high priest was completely overwhelmed with the task of rebuilding the broken and empty temple. An angel tells him it can't be accomplished with wealth or power, but only with the Holy Spirit. He says to speak "Grace, Grace" over all they’re doing as a declaration of that (4:6-10). …

Battle Plan

Some of our most difficult fights are with fear, lies, and pain. But often behind those is an ongoing battle with our old negative habits and self-destructive patterns of thought. As soon as you let that negativity twist your perception and sabotage your thinking, your world shrinks down to a dark endless tunnel, like looking …

Et Cetera

Well, the plans for 2020 have thus far not gone, well, as planned. You could say the whole planet hasn’t gone as planned. We’re a planless planet—an “et.” We’ve only been through four or eighty-seven months of this year, and it’s already one of the most difficult, confusing, and bizarre moments of the century. Not …