Steps That Lead to Freedom
Old habits are so hard to break, and often we have no desire to break them either. However, God's saving grace provides us freedom.
Old habits are so hard to break, and often we have no desire to break them either. However, God's saving grace provides us freedom.
Never discount anything of your past. God can pick it up and use it in the most incredible ways. If you have skills or talents you've put on the back burner, don't be surprised if one day you find yourself in a position where God gives you an opportunity to use them again. He draws from your life experiences at just the right time and in just the right place.
Being left behind is a bad feeling. No one likes being out in the cold. But there will come a day when many people will know that awful feeling. It’s the day of the Second Coming when those without Christ will be left behind. This is a lighthearted look at Christ's return.
Acceptance or rejection of Christ’s work on the cross determines our destiny of heaven or hell. But how we live—choosing to sin or not—and the kind of sin we commit matters now, and for eternity.
Tragic situations are transformed when God steps in. And He takes the most (seemingly) insignificant things to transform. Underdogs become overcomers, weaknesses turn into strengths, and obstacles are nothing but opportunities that launch significant events.
Chuck Swindoll examines the teaching of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:17-24.
Nothing on this earth is anything even like heaven. Nothing. We could spend the next decade only thinking about heaven and still come up so short we’d have wasted our time. Because when you move from the realm of the seen to the unseen it becomes incomprehensible.
It’s important to set time aside to put your priorities together and focus on the essentials of life. Essentials like family. It’s never too late to mend relationships with your parents or siblings or children. Don’t die with broken relationships.
The Bible contains the secrets our Heavenly Father knows and little by little as you read His book, the more the secrets are revealed.
Like a defective grocery cart, our mind can veer off in its own direction. Chuck Swindoll takes a cue from Paul for the direction in which we should steer our thoughts.