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Four Prayers for Wise Words

2

Two Very Surprising Effects of Our Words

3

Why Your Words Matter

4

The Power of Example

5

Wisdom for Parents

6

Wisdom for Children

7

Wisdom for Husbands and Wives

8

Wisdom for Brothers and Sisters

9

How to Find a Best Friend

10

How to Be a True Friend

11

Guard Your Friendships Carefully

12

Choose Your Friends Wisely

13

Be Intentional with Your Friendships

14

“The Fear of the Lord” Is Not Fear of Punishment

15

What Is Your First Reaction to “the Fear of the Lord”?

16

Three Benefits of Wisdom

17

What’s in It (Wisdom) for Me?

18

The Point of the Proverbs

19

How to Read the Book of Proverbs

20

The Kind of Sorrow God Wants You to Experience

21

Where You Will Find the Courage to Repent

22

Where the Prodigal Son’s Repentance Came From

23

This Shows What You Truly Think of Jesus

24

The Danger of an Empty Profession

25

If You Have Doubts About Your Heart

26

How to Offer Yourself to God

27

Offer Yourself to God in Your Present Circumstances

28

Repentance Involves Giving Yourself to God

29

Repentance Cannot Be Confined to Certain Things You No Longer Do

30

Learn How to Kill Your Sin

31

Sin Is Like a Wild Animal

32

Learn How to Stalk Your Sin

33

Use the Bible as a Tool for Self-Examination

34

How God Reveals Our Hidden Sins

35

Why the Christian Life Is Always a Struggle

36

How to Read the Bible, Worship, and Pray

37

The Relationship Between Your Comfort and Your Repentance

38

What Is Your Prevailing Attitude Toward God?

39

How to Live with the Pain of Your Unanswered Questions

40

If You Have a Complaint against God, You’re Not Alone

41

A Curious Story of Repentance

42

What Is the Real Cause of Our Suffering?

43

Meet a Man Who Endured Great Suffering

44

Where All Repentance Begins

45

Don’t Miss the Grace of God

46

Meet the Man Who Could Not Repent

47

Start with a Good Definition of Repentance

48

Repentance Is Much More Than the ABC’s of the Gospel

49

Repentance Is the Hidden Path to a Transformed Life

50

What Is Your Reaction to the Word Repentance?

51

Anticipate Christ’s Coming

52

Christianity Is a Battle, Not a Hobby

53

Distinctive #10: Gospel Hope

54

When God Gives You More

55

If Getting Rich Is Your Goal

56

Distinctive #9: Gospel Lifestyle

57

Leaders Are Not Always What They Appear to Be

58

Why Leaders Must Be Protected AND Accountable

59

Distinctive #8: Gospel Leadership

60

Redefining Your Retirement Dreams

61

Discerning Who to Help

62

Distinctive #7: Gospel Compassion

63

How to Live the Christian Life

64

Why Godliness Is a Mystery to Many

65

Distinctive #6: Gospel Life

66

The Competence of an Effective Christian Leader

67

The Character of an Effective Christian Leader

68

Distinctive #5: Gospel Character

69

Is Jesus for People Like You?

70

The Place of Prayer in Public Worship

71

Distinctive #4: Gospel Ministry

72

Affirm God’s Work in You

73

Remember Your Sins Redemptively

74

Distinctive #3: Gospel Salvation

75

How the Law Can Help You Love

76

How to Properly Use God’s Law Today

77

Distinctive #2: Gospel Freedom

78

3 Things That Can Hold You Back from Loving Others

79

Distinctive #1: Gospel Faith

80

What God Is Looking for in the Church

81

How Then Should We Live?

82

Your Resurrection Body Will Be Powerful and Godly

83

Your Resurrection Body Will Be Imperishable and Glorious

84

Your Resurrection Body Will Be a Physical Body

85

This Is the Crown Jewel of Christian Faith

86

The First False Teaching about Jesus

87

What Sin Has Done to You

88

Two Things to Reconsider in the Light of Heaven

89

How Your Experiences of Joy in This Life Point to Heaven

90

Here Is the Tragedy of Sin

91

You Will Not Spend Eternity Doing Any of These Things

92

These Three Things Will *Not* Be in Heaven

93

Do You Think Life in Heaven Will Be Less Than Your Life Now?

94

Do You Believe That Your Best Life Is Still in Front of You?

95

The Greatest Assurance You Can Have of Heaven

96

Will We Be Reunited with Loved Ones in Heaven?

97

Will We Enjoy Relationships in Heaven?

98

Will We Retain Our Identities in Heaven?

99

Will We Know and Recognise One Another in Heaven?

100

Would You Like to Be Completely at Home?

101

Would You Like a Little Glimpse of Eternity?

102

The Surprising Pattern of the Christian Life

103

What Believers in Heaven Are Compared To

104

Why the Bible Sometimes Describes Death as Sleep

105

What Happens After You Die

106

The Time to Trust Jesus Is Now

107

What It Means to “Trust” Jesus

108

What It Means to “Ask” Jesus

109

What It Means to “Turn” to Jesus

110

How You Can Be Sure About Heaven

111

How Well Prepared Are You for the Future?

112

If Salvation Is in God’s Hands, What Hope Is There for Us?

113

Does It Really Matter Where Salvation Comes From?

114

The Bible Talks about Salvation in Three Tenses

115

#8: Reduce God’s Salvation by Crediting Your Response

116

Did You Know That God Saves Desperate, Repentant People?

117

Did You Know That God Saves Guilty, Believing People?

118

#7: Restrain God’s Praise on Account of Your Pain

119

Parking at the Super Bowl

120

Three Ways to Grow in Compassion

121

#6: Receive God’s Mercy and Withhold It from Others

122

See God's Love for You

123

Two Signs That You May Be Living a Vine-Centred Life

124

#5: Rejoice in God’s Gifts As If They Were Rights

125

What Is Your Reaction to God’s Grace?

126

How to Undermine Your Own Repentance

127

If You Think God Is Too Slow in Dealing with Evil

128

#4: Resent God’s Providence in Ruling the World

129

God Chooses His Moment to Change the City

130

God Uses His Man or Woman to Change the City

131

God Sends His Word to Change the City

132

#3: Resign God’s Work in the Light of Your Experience

133

How to Pursue a Life That Is More Receptive to God’s Provision

134

#2: Refuse God’s Provision Through Someone Else

135

Where Hope Begins

136

Never Trust Circumstances When You Are Resisting God

137

How to Cultivate a Life that Is More Responsive to God’s Call

138

#1: Resist God’s Call to Something New

139

How to Avoid a God-Centred Life

140

God Is Able to Present You to Himself

141

God Is Able to Keep You from Falling (When You Are Tempted)

142

God Is Able to Keep You from Falling (When You Have Failed)

143

God Is Able to Keep You from Falling (by Saving You)

144

Workout #7: Rest in God’s Triumph

145

Grow in Holiness (by Self-Examination)

146

Workout #6: Watch Yourself

147

Grow in Ministry Usefulness (by Taking Up Your Cross)

148

Grow in Ministry Usefulness (by Recognising Your Own Sin)

149

Grow in Ministry Usefulness (by Showing Compassion to Others)

150

Workout #5: Reach Out to Others

151

Grow in Patience (by Waiting on God)

152

Grow in Patience (by Anticipating What God Has Promised)

153

Grow in Patience (by Embracing This Imperfect World)

154

Workout #4: Learn to Wait

155

Experience God’s Love (in Prayer)

156

Experience God’s Love (in the Bible)

157

Experience God’s Love (in the Lord’s Supper)

158

Workout #3: Keep Yourself in God’s Love

159

Pray the Lord’s Prayer

160

Pray with an Open Bible

161

Pray with Confidence

162

Pray in the Name of Jesus

163

Workout #2: Pray in the Holy Spirit

164

Grow Your Faith (by Feeding It)

165

Grow Your Faith (by Exercising It)

166

Grow Your Faith (by Affirming It)

167

Grow Your Faith (by Thanking God for It)

168

Workout #1: Build Yourself Up in the Faith

169

Keeping Yourself in Spiritual Shape

170

Are You Settling or Contending?

171

Whose Voice Are You Listening to?

172

What Is Truth?

173

Do You Long for the Truth?

174

Reason #7: Jesus Came into the World to Bear Witness to the Truth

175

What Will Happen If You Choose to Follow Jesus

176

What Will Happen If You Choose Not to Follow Jesus

177

Reason #6: Jesus Came into the World as Light

178

What a More Abundant Life Could Look Like for You

179

What Does Jesus Mean By “Abundant” Life?

180

Are You Afraid That Jesus Might Be a Thief?

181

Reason #5: Jesus Came into the World to Bring Life

182

Two Reasons to Celebrate the Coming of Jesus

183

How What God Wills Can Become Yours

184

How Jesus Gets the Will of God Done

185

Reason #4: Jesus Came into the World to Do the Will of the Father

186

Three Different Ways People Respond to Jesus

187

Three Surprising Things about Repentance

188

Following Jesus Means Leaving Your Old Life for Something New

189

What It Means to Follow Jesus Today

190

Why Jesus Chose a Tax Collector to Be His Disciple

191

Reason #3: Jesus Came into the World to Call Sinners

192

Have You Counted the Cost of Not Following Jesus?

193

Reason #2: Jesus Came into the World to Bring a Sword

194

One Day There Will Be Peace

195

Jesus Did Not Come into the World to Bring Peace

196

How Do You Read God’s Commands?

197

How to Live a Life That Is Pleasing to God

198

Jesus Came to Bring a New Kind of Righteousness

199

Reason #1: Jesus Came into the World to Fulfil the Law and the Prophets

200

Jesus Did Not Come into the World to Abolish the Law or the Prophets

201

Why Jesus Came into the World

202

Come to Jesus and Ask

203

A Portrait of Your Relationship with Christ

204

Jesus’ Seven-Fold Promise

205

What It Means to See Christ’s Glory

206

Promise #7: Jesus Will Show You His Glory

207

Jesus Wants You in Heaven

208

How Do You Know Jesus Is Coming Back for You?

209

Two Ways Jesus Takes His People into Heaven

210

The Rugby World Cup

211

Where Is Your Hope?

212

Promise #6: Jesus Will Bring You into Heaven

213

If You Know That Jesus Is with You and in You by the Holy Spirit

214

Genuine Faith Is an Inside Job

215

Promise #5: Jesus Will Give You the Holy Spirit

216

Five Ways to Confess Jesus Christ

217

How to Interpret These Words of Jesus

218

What It Means to Confess or Deny Jesus

219

Promise #4: Jesus Will One Day Confess You to the Father

220

The Mission Is to Catch Fish, Not Improve the Lake

221

Seven "Fishing" Observations

222

Promise #3: Jesus Will Make You Useful

223

You Need to Take This In

224

The Son Receives

225

The Sinner Comes

226

The Father Gives

227

Promise #2: Jesus Will Never Drive You Away

228

Jesus’ Rest Is a Gift, Not a Process

229

How to Find the Rest Jesus Promises

230

Promise #1: Jesus Is Willing to Give You Rest

231

Rock-Solid Promises

232

Assurance Grows When You Know What Jesus Will Do

233

Don’t Forget that You’re a Work in Progress

234

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit—Part 3

235

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit—Part 2

236

The Ministry of the Holy Spirit—Part 1

237

How the Holy Spirit Brings Assurance

238

The Reassured Heart

239

The Condemning Heart

240

The Confident Heart

241

Tests, Directions, and Signs

242

Why We Believe in Jesus

243

Two Truths about Jesus that Strengthen Your Assurance

244

Two Lies about Jesus that Undermine Your Assurance

245

Cultivate Love and You Will Grow in Assurance

246

Assurance Grows as You Love God’s People

247

Finding the Freedom that Leads to Assurance

248

Charting the Course Toward Assurance

249

A Perfect Description of Assurance

250

What Happened at the Cross

251

What Is Propitiation?

252

God’s Provision for the Times When We Sin

253

Two Dangerous Approaches to Sin

254

How to Make Progress Against Remaining Sin

255

Sin Hides in Our Hearts Even as We Walk in the Light

256

One Danger for Us as We Walk in the Light

257

How to Respond If You Are Walking in Darkness

258

What It Means to Walk in the Light

259

Two Misconceptions about Walking in the Light

260

The Lie That Our Sin Does Not Matter

261

Assurance Grows as You Gain Clarity about the Gospel

262

How Can You Be Sure That You Have Eternal Life?

263

Three Things God Does for You When You Are “in Christ”

264

Why Jesus Is Uniquely Qualified to Deal With Our Sins

265

God’s Medicine for Your Condemning Heart

266

One of Your Enemy’s Main Strategies to Make You Lose Heart

267

How You Know God Is at Work in Your Life

268

How Jesus Sees You

269

Jesus Changes How We See Ourselves

270

Jesus Changes How We See Others

271

Why People Sometimes Dismiss Jesus

272

Five More Factors That Distinguish Us from One Another

273

Five Factors That Distinguish Us from One Another

274

Why Jesus’ Death Means Hope for You

275

Being Moral and Religious Will Not Free You from This

276

Why Living for Yourself Won’t Make You Happier

277

What It Would Be Like to Die with Christ

278

What It Would Be Like to Die without Christ

279

Whatever Grips Your Mind Controls Your Heart

280

Five Words to Describe Your Experience of Jesus’ Love

281

Ten Opportunities That Are Only Possible During Your Lifetime

282

Are You Living Your Christian Life with This in Mind?

283

Why Christians Sometimes Feel Their Christian Life Doesn’t Matter

284

Why Christians Sometimes Lack Confidence about the Day of Judgement

285

Three Things Christians Need to Know about the Judgement

286

Christians Have One Life in Two Parts

287

God Didn’t Need to Tell Us This

288

Christians Have Two Homes

289

If You Are Wondering Why Your Life Is So Hard

290

Godliness Does Not Vaccinate You against Pain or Difficulty

291

How the Bible Talks about Your Body

292

Don’t Lose Heart

293

A True Story from the Titanic

294

It’s Never Too Late

295

The Difference Between Judas and Peter

296

Judas’ Plunge to Disaster

297

Judas Opened the Door

298

Judas Was in the Grip of Greed

299

Judas’ Series of Tragic Choices

300

The Story of Judas

301

We Need a Greater Deliverer Than Samson

302

You Don’t Need to Stumble

303

Samson’s Plunge to Disaster

304

Samson’s First Step on the Road to Disaster

305

3 Things to Know about Samson

306

The Story of Samson

307

How You Can Avoid Esau’s Plunge to Disaster

308

Esau’s Plunge to Disaster

309

What Happened to Esau’s Blessing

310

The Pattern That Led to Esau’s Plunge to Disaster

311

Esau Was Confused about Values

312

Esau Acted on Impulse

313

Esau’s Hasty Promise

314

The Story of Esau

315

A Potential Turning Point in Cain’s Life

316

Cain Underestimated the Power of Sin

317

Cain’s Plunge to Disaster

318

What God Said to Cain

319

Why Abel's Sacrifice Was More Acceptable Than Cain's

320

Cain and Abel Bring Their Offerings to God

321

Cain and Abel

322

The Story of Cain

323

Deckchairs on the Titanic

324

Give Yourself to Living for Christ

325

Have You Considered the Sting of Death?

326

What Will Happen to Believers Who Are Still Alive When Jesus Returns

327

What You Need to Know about Believers Who Have Died

328

How You Can Enjoy God’s Everlasting Kingdom

329

Your Labour Is Not in Vain

330

Find Hope in What You Will One Day Be

331

The Experience of All Those Who Share in the Life of Jesus

332

The Experience of All Those Who Share in the Life of Adam

333

One Day Your Inner Battle Will Be Over

334

You Can Look Forward to Your Resurrection Body

335

Your Resurrection Body Will Be More, Not Less

336

How Exactly Are the Dead Raised?

337

You Can Have Hope for the Future

338

How You Live Reveals What You Believe about the Resurrection

339

Your Belief in the Resurrection Will Shape How You Live

340

A Faith for “This Life Only” Leads to Indulgence

341

A Faith for “This Life Only” Cannot Deliver Us from Evil

342

A Faith for “This Life Only” Offers No Hope

343

Does Your View of the Resurrection Really Matter?

344

Don’t Put Your Hope in This Kind of Resurrection

345

Your Hope of Sharing in Jesus’ Resurrection Life

346

Why You Won’t Find Hope in This Kind of Faith

347

An Invitation, a Warning, and a Promise

348

You Can Find Strength to Do All That God Has Called You to Do

349

You Can Find Hope in Jesus When You Still Have a Long Way to Go

350

You Can Find Hope in Jesus for Past Sins

351

You Can Find Hope in the Resurrected One

352

What the Bible Tells Us about Sin

353

The Bible Says This Is of First Importance

354

Hope in Jesus

355

What Is the Highest Good in Life?

356

Tell Your Story of God’s Grace

357

Write Out Your Story

358

Salvation Belongs to the Lord

359

What Is the Driving Ambition of Your Life?

360

Don't Miss the Point

361

Heaven Is God-Centered

362

The Joyful Freedom of Confident Faith in God

363

Our Biggest Problem

364

What True Confession Does

365

If God Gives You an Awareness of Your Own Sin

366

Acting on Impulse

367

When the Heart Rules the Head

368

What to Do When You Have a Bitter Spirit

369

This Is Disappearing from Christian Worship

370

How We Are To Confess Our Sins

371

Prayer Flows Out Where Truth Flows In

372

Stop. Think. Confess.

373

An Asaph Experience

374

The Beggar’s Dream

375

Walking on Ice

376

Stay the Course

377

When You Find It Difficult to Pray

378

Do It for Them

379

The First Step in Turning Your Life Around

380

Turning Around Isn’t Easy

381

Don’t Be Surprised When You Feel Like Giving Up

382

The Honest Confession of a Godly Man

383

When Your Faith Is Hanging by a Thread

384

A Godly Man Who Nearly Fell

385

The Gospel Is More Than Law Keeping

386

The Killer Commandment

387

(10) Your Struggle with Contentment

388

Gossip, Flattery, and Exaggeration

389

(9) Your Struggle with Truth

390

The Great Taker and the Great Giver

391

The Holy Spirit Is with You for the Climb

392

(8) Your Struggle for Integrity

393

Act in the Power of the Spirit

394

How to Overcome the Power of Temptation

395

(7) Your Struggle with Purity

396

Pursue Peace

397

The Trouble with Keeping the Sixth Commandment

398

What This Command Is Saying to Us

399

(6) Your Struggle for Peace

400

How to Honour an Unworthy Parent

401

Honoring and Obeying Parents

402

(5) Your Struggle with Authority

403

How You Can Enter God’s Rest

404

(4) Your Struggle with Time

405

Honouring the Name of Jesus

406

(3) Your Struggle with Religion

407

Why Idols Are So Offensive to God

408

(2) Your Struggle to Worship

409

This Is Our Greatest Struggle

410

(1) Your Struggle with God

411

Meet the Commander

412

Where Do You Stand in Relation to the Ten Commandments?

413

The Law Is Like a Mentor

414

The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

415

Life Is a Struggle

416

In the Father’s Hands

417

The Last Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

418

Is Satan’s Power Really Broken?

419

You Can Rest in All That Jesus Has Done for You

420

Don’t Miss This!

421

Jesus’ Perfect Sacrifice Was Offered

422

The Decisive Battle with Jesus’ Enemy Was Over

423

The Full Course of Jesus’ Obedience Was Complete

424

The Sixth Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

425

Why Jesus Said He Was Thirsty on the Cross

426

The Fifth Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

427

How to Rejoice in the Cross

428

How to Rejoice in the Cross

429

The Fourth Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

430

The Third Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

431

God Turned Off the Light

432

Why Are You Still Here?

433

Heaven Is Much Nearer than You Think

434

Don’t Spend the Rest of Your Life Waiting

435

Your Entrance into Heaven

436

Simple Faith

437

The Second Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

438

Raging against God

439

The Heart of the Gospel

440

Jesus Prays for Us Long Before We Ever Pray to Him

441

While They Were Sinning Against Him

442

Crucifying the Son of God

443

Preparing for Themselves an Eternal Hell

444

Shutting Themselves Out of a Glorious Heaven

445

The First Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

446

Delight Yourself in the Gospel

447

Who Gets the Glory?

448

This Will Help You Make Sense of the Christian Life

449

The Fruit of the Spirit

450

How the Bible Describes Our Ongoing Battle against Sin

451

Why You Will Experience Ongoing Internal Conflict

452

Why Your Struggle against Sin Won’t End This Side of Heaven

453

What Is Christian Freedom?

454

Two Very Different Approaches to Acceptance

455

Where Do You Stand with God?

456

Why We Are More Comfortable with Law than Love

457

Don't Lose Your Freedom

458

Christian, This Is What You Are (Present Tense)

459

Christian, This Is What You Were (Past Tense)

460

What Is the Christian Life Like?

461

How Does a Person Receive the Holy Spirit?

462

What Is the Purpose of God’s Law?

463

One Thing the Law Cannot Do

464

Where You Find Rest

465

The Gospel Is More Than a New Coat of Paint

466

Our Problem with Grace

467

The Gospel Is Grace

468

A Critical World Mission Principle for Every Christian

469

Don’t Limit Your Ministry Horizon

470

The Gospel Is for the Whole World

471

Why There Can Only Be One Gospel

472

Only Jesus Christ Can Do This

473

Why You Can Stake Your Life on the Gospel

474

Where Did the Gospel Come From?

475

Are You Searching for Something More?

476

Do You Ever Doubt the Sufficiency of the Gospel?

477

Do We Really Have the Mind of Christ?

478

The Secret Wisdom of God Is Revealed by the Spirit

479

The Secret Wisdom of God Is Rooted in the Cross

480

Two Ways of Putting Your Life Together

481

In Christ, You Are Wise (Though You Still Make Mistakes)

482

Feed Yourself the Truth

483

What’s Missing from the White-Flour Gospel?

484

The White-Flour Gospel

485

You Are Sent

486

You Are Called

487

You Are Glorified

488

You Are Given

489

Holiness: Position and Process

490

In Christ, You Are Holy (Though You Live in the World)

491

Be Who You Are

492

Learning to Live as a Free Person

493

Christian, Jesus Has Set You Free

494

Christian, You Are in a Position to Fight

495

Christian, Sin Is No Longer Your Master

496

Is Real Change Possible?

497

In Christ, You Are Free (Though You Still Struggle)

498

Christ’s Righteousness Is Yours

499

Christian, Look Here for Your Righteousness

500

Christ Is Your Righteousness

501

God Justifies Sinners

502

In Christ, You Are Clean (Though You Still Sin)

503

What Is True of You When You Are 'in Christ'

504

Don’t Settle for Anything Less Than This

505

Blessings for the World

506

Wisdom for All Ages

507

How the Redeemer Brings Love, Purpose, and Hope

508

How Blessing Comes to Us through the Redeemer

509

Blessing Comes from the LORD

510

Why the Story of Ruth Is in the Bible

511

The Job Description of a Redeemer

512

Jesus Is Our Redeemer

513

How to Come to Jesus

514

Boaz’s Resolve

515

Ruth’s Initiative

516

Naomi’s Counsel

517

A Marvellous Example of Love

518

How to Find Hope

519

How God Provides for His People

520

How God Feeds His People

521

How God Blesses His People

522

How God Welcomes His People

523

New Horizons of Hope

524

Two More Strategies for Growing in Faith

525

Grow in Faith by Affirming That God Is Sovereign

526

Two Temptations You Will Find in Your Sorrow

527

Sorrow Often Comes in Waves

528

Where Loving Commitment Comes From

529

What Your Choices Reveal about Your Love

530

Four Signs of Genuine Love

531

Ruth Is a Story about Redemption

532

God Is the Central Character in the Book of Ruth

533

Take the Most Generous View

534

Ruth Is the Story of Two Weddings and Three Funerals

535

Ruth Is about Ordinary People and an Extraordinary God

536

How You Can Come to Jesus Today

537

How Ten Million Dollars Could Fail to Change Your Life

538

What Christian Faith Hangs On

539

"That's Just Your Interpretation”

540

What It Means If You’re Asking This Question

541

When You Are United to Jesus

542

Jesus Was Forsaken by the Father for Us

543

Jesus Entered the Darkness for Us

544

Jesus Came under the Curse for Us

545

Jesus Consciously Endured the Punishment for Our Sins

546

Did Jesus Really Give His Life as a “Ransom” for Us?

547

The Bible's Explanation of What God Was Doing at the Cross

548

The Bible’s Description of What Actually Happened at the Cross

549

Who You Can Turn to When You Are Suffering

550

Jesus Endured Terrible Physical and Verbal Abuse

551

We Are Tempted by This When We Face Physical Pain

552

Pilate’s Failure to Protect Jesus from False Accusations

553

Was Jesus Really Bound?

554

What to Do When You Are Weary and Losing Heart

555

How Jesus Taught Us to Face Injustice

556

Why You Can Find Comfort in the Experience of Jesus

557

God Doesn’t Manipulate Us with the Sufferings of Jesus

558

The Real Problem for Judas Is Not What You Think

559

How Far a Real Christian Can Fall

560

Why Failure Is Not the End of the Story

561

Why Jesus Tells His Disciples to Watch and Pray

562

What Resulted from Peter’s Denial of Jesus

563

Jesus Was Deserted by All His Trusted Friends

564

Judas’ Painful Goodbye

565

Jesus Suffered at the Hands of His Friends

566

Three Stages of Jesus’ Suffering

567

Real Change Is Possible with God

568

Real Change Is Impossible with Man

569

Salvation Involves Real Change

570

You Must Be Good Like God

571

Jesus Lays Claim to His People’s Possessions

572

Don’t Let Anyone Keep You from Jesus

573

Jesus’ High View of Marriage

574

God’s Pattern for Marriage

575

If You Compartmentalise Your Life

576

Jesus Warns Us about the Terrible Realities of Hell

577

Jesus Warns Us about the Great Consequences of Sin

578

How to Achieve Greatness

579

The Greatest Danger of Your Spiritual Experience

580

Follow Jesus Because You Share in His Work

581

Follow Jesus Because You See His Glory

582

Are You on the Fence about Jesus?

583

Count the Cost of Following Jesus

584

Jesus Calls His People to Sacrifice

585

Jesus Gives This Promise to His Disciples Who See Clearly

586

Jesus Corrects His Disciples Who See in Part

587

Jesus Rebukes His Disciples Who Fail to See

588

How Jesus Gives Sight to His People

589

Put Your Trust in the Right Person

590

Trace Your Sin to the Right Source

591

Measure Your Life by the Right Standard

592

Jesus Cleanses the Hearts of His People

593

Jesus Overcomes Resistance in His People

594

How Hidden Resentment Will Harden Your Heart

595

How Habitual Sin Will Harden Your Heart

596

How Hometown Unbelief Will Harden Your Heart

597

What Life Looks Like Under God’s Blessing

598

Where Do You Need to Start Scattering Seed?

599

Inside Those Who Hear the Word of God

600

What the Bible Actually Does

601

What Kind of Ministry Harvest Are You Looking For?

602

What God's Reign Looks Like in Heaven, on Earth, and in Hell

603

Why Jesus’ Brothers Said That He Was Out of His Mind

604

What Is Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?

605

Why There Is Antagonism Toward Jesus

606

Freedom Reveals Who You Really Are

607

Many Christians Resist This Teaching

608

Whose Side Are You On?

609

False Religion Imposes Heavy Burdens

610

False Religion Lacks Joy

611

Jesus, Friend of Sinners

612

How You Can Receive What Jesus Has for You

613

Which Is More Important— Healing or Forgiveness?

614

Have We Redefined Sin?

615

Your Greatest Need

616

In Jesus Christ, Troubled People Are Set Free

617

In Jesus Christ, God Has Come Downstairs to Get Us

618

Why Jesus Was Never Frustrated in the Bible

619

What Jesus Can Do with Ordinary People

620

What Was the Priority of Jesus?

621

The Marks of a True Christian

622

The First Thing That Happens When You Come Near to Jesus

623

If You Knew You Were Going to Meet with God

624

What Is the Gospel?

625

Who Believes That Jesus Is the Son of God?

626

Why Is Jesus Called “the Son of God”

627

Why Jesus Is Called “the Christ”

628

God is Able to Present You to Himself

629

God Is Able to Keep You from Falling (When You Are Tempted)

630

God Is Able to Keep You from Falling (When You Have Failed)

631

God Is Able to Keep You from Falling (by Saving You)

632

Rest in God’s Triumph

633

Grow in Holiness (by Self-Examination)

634

Watch Yourself

635

Grow in Ministry Usefulness (by Taking Up Your Cross)

636

Grow in Ministry Usefulness (by Recognising Your Sin)

637

Grow in Ministry Usefulness (by Showing Compassion to Others)

638

Reach Out to Others

639

Grow in Patience (by Waiting on God)

640

Grow in Patience (by Anticipating What God Has Promised)

641

Grow in Patience (by Embracing This Imperfect World)

642

Learn to Wait

643

Experience God’s Love (in Prayer)

644

Experience God’s Love (in the Bible)

645

Experience God’s Love (in the Lord’s Supper)

646

Keep Yourself in God’s Love

647

Praying the Lord’s Prayer

648

Praying with an Open Bible

649

Praying with Confidence

650

Praying in the Name of Jesus

651

Pray in the Holy Spirit

652

Grow Your Faith (by Feeding It)

653

Grow Your Faith (by Exercising It)

654

Grow Your Faith (by Affirming It)

655

Grow Your Faith (by Thanking God for It)

656

Build Yourself Up in the Faith

657

Keeping Yourself in Spiritual Shape

658

Ask God to Do This for You

659

How You Can Face Temptations This Week

660

Does It Feel Like Your Past Is Running after You?

661

Is God Angry or Loving?

662

Are We under God’s Judgement or His Blessing?

663

What to Do When God Seems Far Away

664

The God Who Hides Himself

665

3 Heartbreaking Trends

666

There Is No Forgiveness without Repentance

667

Walk Humbly with Your God

668

Love Mercy

669

Act Justly

670

Our First Instinct When We Feel Guilty

671

Evidence against God’s People

672

Evidence of God’s Love

673

What God Requires of You

674

Why Our Idols Are Worthless

675

The Difference between Love and Manipulation

676

God's Response to Idolatry

677

The Ultimate Identity Theft

678

4 Dimensions of Idolatry

679

There Is No Better Place to Hide from God

680

Our Search for God Is Like a Game of Hide-and-Seek

681

It Is Dangerously Easy to Turn God’s Gifts into Idols

682

What It Looks Like When Idolatry Takes Root

683

Confusion in a Pluralistic Society

684

What’s Holding You Back?

685

Your Position as a Christian Believer

686

We Need a Better Shepherd

687

The Good Shepherd

688

The God Who Shepherds His People

689

God Will Gather, Rule, and Redeem

690

God Will Judge

691

How Peace on Earth Will Happen

692

Peace on Earth

693

How You Can Make a Difference

694

How an Entire Generation Was Saved from Disaster

695

Effective Praying Depends On Right Living

696

When Leaders Are Unfaithful, God Stops Listening

697

Pray for Your Leaders

698

Who Can You Trust?

699

What Has God Entrusted to You?

700

The God Who Holds Leaders Accountable

701

If God Speaks, That Changes Everything

702

The Tragedy of the False Prophet

703

The Principle of Reaping What You Sow

704

God Is Very Interested in How You Make Money

705

How to Interpret God’s Actions

706

What Is Idolatry?

707

The God Who Speaks for Himself

708

Don’t Wait for a Disaster to Do This

709

Why God Sends Disasters

710

Who Controls the Circumstances of Your Life?

711

Is God in Control of Bad Things Too?

712

Do You Share the Heart of God?

713

The God Who Brings Disaster

714

God Speaks through Ordinary People

715

God Can Give a Great Ministry to the Most Ordinary Believer

716

God Can Raise a Great Son from the Worst of Fathers

717

God Can Bring a Great Revival from the Worst Disaster

718

The God Who Brings Revival

719

A Close Encounter with the Living God

720

God Will Restore All Creation

721

People Will Settle Down in Heaven

722

The Joy of Heaven

723

Imagine Almighty God Doing This for You

724

The Bible’s Teaching on Hell

725

The Bible Describes Two Destinies for All People

726

The Reward of God’s Mission

727

The Priority of God’s Mission

728

Where God Sends Missionaries

729

Don’t Despise the Hardships in Your Life

730

This Is a Miracle of Grace

731

How Worship Is Like Visiting the Grand Canyon

732

Worship Fires Mission

733

How God Seeks and Saves

734

What All of Us Need from God

735

Religion Can Also Be a Way of Hiding from God

736

3 More Approaches to Religion That Are Offensive to God

737

3 Approaches to Religion That Are Offensive to God

738

Why Religion Is a Mixed Bag

739

Maybe You Aren’t Really Interested in God

740

What God Says to Secular People

741

A Prayer That You Could Pray Today

742

How to Plead with God in Prayer

743

4 Things That Can Keep You from Praying

744

Effective Prayer Comes from This

745

Praying for God to Make His Power Known

746

Praying for God to Make His Love Known

747

Praying for God to Make Himself Known

748

Where Faith Grows, Prayer Follows

749

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

750

The Beggar

751

God’s Purpose in Sending His Son

752

Jesus Stands with Us as Our Champion

753

Hope for Believers Who Have Neglected Justice

754

Our Culture Is Losing Justice

755

Do You Care about People in Desperate Need?

756

What God Is Looking for in His People

757

What God Says to His Own People

758

How You Can Return to God

759

How God Changes a Stubborn Heart

760

Is Repentance a Command or a Gift?

761

The Roadblock Between You and God

762

The Natural Inclination of Our Hearts

763

Why God Dwells with the Contrite and Lowly

764

When You Feel Far from God

765

Where You Can Find God

766

How God Speaks into Your Life

767

You Can Ask God to Give You New Joy

768

There Is a Back Door to Joy

769

Pursue This Kind of Joy

770

Finding Joy in Unlikely Places

771

Three Places Where We Naturally Seek Happiness

772

One Thing That Unites Us All

773

What’s Your Story?

774

Two Very Different Ways to Look at Your Own Life

775

Preach the Gospel to Yourself Every Day

776

Don’t Make This Costly Mistake

777

Jesus’ Evaluation of the Cross

778

When Will Suffering End?

779

How God Restores Your Soul

780

The Gap between Our Faith and Our Lives

781

How Then Should You Live?

782

Your Resurrection Body Will Be Powerful and Godly

783

Your Resurrection Body Will Be Imperishable and Glorious

784

What Your Resurrection Body Will Be Like

785

This Is the Crown Jewel of Your Faith

786

The First False Teaching about Jesus

787

What Sin Has Done to You

788

You Are on the Last Mile of Your Journey

789

The Ever-Increasing Joy of Heaven

790

The Tragedy of Sin

791

You Will Not Spend Eternity Doing Any of These Things

792

These Things Are Passing Away

793

God Is Making All Things New

794

Your Best Life Is Still in Front of You

795

Jesus Wants You There

796

We Will Be Reunited with Loved Ones in Heaven

797

We Will Enjoy Relationships in Heaven

798

We Will Retain Our Identities in Heaven

799

We Will Know One Another in Heaven

800

A Beautiful Picture of Inclusion

801

A Glimpse of Eternity to Encourage You

802

Good. Better. Best.

803

Believers in Heaven Are Like Angels

804

Why the Bible Sometimes Describes Death as Sleep

805

The Experience of a Christian Immediately after Death

806

Two Thieves

807

Trust

808

Ask

809

Turn

810

How You Can Be Sure about Heaven

811

Living in a Suffering World

812

What Jesus Knows about Psalm 13

813

Pray by Leaning into What You Know

814

How to Pray with a Person Who Feels Abandoned by God

815

How to Pursue an Authentic Prayer Life

816

How Long, O Lord?

817

How to Pray When

818

Anticipate Your Future in Prayer

819

Affirm the Sovereignty of God in Prayer

820

Recognise God’s Hand in the Testing

821

You May Need to Challenge the Well-Meaning Advice of Friends

822

Challenge the Voices of Fear and Frustration in Prayer

823

How to Pray When You Feel Like Giving Up

824

Is Someone Telling You It’s Too Late?

825

Jesus Will Have the Last Word over Wickedness

826

What Jesus Knows about Psalm 10

827

3 Convictions That Will Help You Pray

828

When This Kind of Thinking Creeps into Your Prayer Life

829

How to Pray When God Seems Far Away

830

Understanding the World Better Will Help You to Pray

831

How to Deal with Traces of Wickedness in Your Own Heart

832

When You Are Praying for Someone Who Is Defiant

833

Four Characteristics of Wickedness

834

How to Pray When the Wicked Seem to Be Winning

835

Prayer Helps You Find Jesus and Guard Against Temptation

836

Pray Because Jesus Needed to and So Do You

837

Pray Because God Invites You to Come

838

Pray Because You Have a Great High Priest

839

A Training Manual for Prayer

840

The Limits of Spontaneous Prayer

841

Arrow Prayers

842

What Does It Mean to Be Blessed?

843

7 Promises that Belong to Us

844

7 Secrets That Belong to the Lord

845

Act on What You Know, Leave the Rest to God

846

What It Means to Be a Christian

847

All Authority Belongs to Him

848

Always Seek to Follow the Word of God

849

1 Priority for Leaders to Pursue

850

3 Temptations All Leaders Face

851

Honor Your Spiritual Leaders

852

7 Marks of a Godly Leader

853

How God Gives Authority

854

God Gives Us Leaders

855

This World Is Our Temporary Home

856

The Firstfruits of the Holy Spirit

857

Anticipate Your Resurrection

858

The Mighty Intervention of God

859

The Reason for the Passover

860

What Do You Celebrate?

861

Practice Kindness

862

4 Dangers to Guard against in Your Giving

863

The Kindness of God’s Law

864

Why Poverty Exists

865

Avoid This Mistake with Old Testament Laws and Promises

866

How to Break Out of the Circle of Pride

867

The Subtle Test of Success

868

The Circle of Pride

869

The Circle of Praise

870

When You Experience God’s Blessing

871

Your Life Will Provoke Questions

872

How to Align Your Life around the Lord

873

The Difference between Prioritising, Balancing, and Aligning

874

The Worst Thing You Can Do for Your Family

875

How Would Loving God Affect Your Family?

876

How to Love God More

877

Jesus Has a Question for You

878

Love God with All Your Strength

879

Love God with All Your Heart and Soul

880

Which God Do You Love?

881

Our Message to the World

882

What Love Looks Like

883

God’s Most Important Commands

884

One Final Motivation for Cultivating the Fear of the Lord

885

Three More Motivations for Cultivating the Fear of the Lord

886

Three Motivations for Cultivating the Fear of the Lord

887

The Fear That Love Brings

888

The Fear That Love Removes

889

God’s Word to Us Today

890

We Are Called to a Life of Repentance and Faith

891

The Difference between Repentance and Faith

892

The Power of a Fresh Start

893

Christianity Is Not Primarily about Trying Harder

894

Three More Impulses That Are in Us by Nature

895

Three Impulses That Are in Us by Nature

896

Learn from Your Family Legacy

897

Overcome Your Fear of the Future

898

Break Free from Your Past

899

Are You Facing a Major Transition?

900

What the Book of Deuteronomy Is About

901

Who the Book of Deuteronomy Is For

902

Follow Jesus and You Will Never Walk in Darkness

903

Full Sunlight Is Coming

904

You Are Called to Be Like Starlight

905

Jesus Is Like a Floodlight

906

Jesus Came to Bring Light

907

How to Get the Life That Jesus Came to Give

908

Jesus Gives Life Abundantly

909

Our Lives Are on Loan from God

910

How to Deal with Thieves

911

Jesus Came to Give Life

912

God’s Good Will

913

How What God Wills Can Become Yours

914

It Is God’s Will to Restore All of You

915

How God’s Will Gets Done

916

Jesus Came to Do the Will of God

917

Three Responses to Jesus’ Call

918

Jesus Calls Us to a Life of Repentance

919

Jesus Calls Us to a New Life

920

Why Jesus Calls Sinners

921

Jesus Came to Call Sinners

922

Count the Cost of Not Following Jesus

923

Count the Cost of Following Jesus

924

Jesus Will Bring Peace

925

How the Coming of Jesus Brings a Sword into Our Lives

926

Jesus Came to Bring a Sword

927

Jesus Came to Fulfil the Law in His People

928

The Righteousness Jesus Calls Us to Pursue

929

How Jesus Fulfilled the Law in His Death

930

How Jesus Fulfilled the Law in His Life

931

Jesus Came to Fulfil the Law

932

Why Jesus Came

933

What the World Needs Most from Jesus

934

Learn to Take Appropriate Responsibility

935

Learn to See the Blessing in This

936

Learn Discernment

937

Learn Humility in What You Ask of Jesus

938

Learn to Recognise When You Are Vulnerable to Temptation

939

The Mission of Jesus

940

Tell Someone That You Believe in Jesus

941

What Foundation Is Jesus Building On?

942

Who Is God Using in Your Life?

943

You Don’t Need to Have Your Whole Life Sorted Out to Do This

944

What Faith Is—Part 2

945

The Question That Really Matters

946

What Faith Is—Part 1

947

When You Realise That Jesus Is with You and for You

948

When You Take Your Eyes Off Jesus

949

The Power You Need to Obey Jesus’ Command

950

The Opportunity in Your Trouble

951

Even Authentic Disciples Are Sometimes Afraid

952

There Is No Place, However Dark, Where Jesus Cannot Reach You

953

Sometimes Jesus Feels Far Away

954

The World Will Not Always Be Like This

955

What Jesus Can Do in the Life of a Flawed Disciple

956

If You Are Afraid That God Will Give Up on You

957

If You Feel Unworthy of God

958

If You Feel Like You Have Failed God

959

Where Authentic Discipleship Begins

960

What Obeying God’s Word Could Do for You

961

Are You Drifting from the Church?

962

An Authentic Disciple

963

When You Read the Bible

964

I Don’t Know What I Would Do without Him or Her

965

How It Is Possible for You to Have Peace

966

Three Pillars of Peace

967

Is It Possible to Have Peace in This Season of Life?

968

Is This Really Worth It?

969

How to Deal with Discouragement

970

When You Begin to Feel Sorry for Yourself

971

Your Example Matters More Than Your Rights

972

The Dignity of Your Work

973

If You Knew Jesus Would Return in 7 Days

974

You Need This Prayer

975

Don’t Settle for This Kind of Faith

976

God Is Able to Redirect Your Heart

977

Have You Tasted God’s Love?

978

You Can Ask God to Do This for You

979

Pray in the Light of This Truth

980

Who You Are, Christian

981

A Mini-Theology

982

You Will Be Glorified

983

You Are Called

984

Open the Bible Daily – 10th October 2023

985

9th October 2023

986

Open the Bible Daily - 8th October 2023

987

Open the Bible Daily - 7th October 2023

988

Open the Bible Daily - 6th October 2023

989

Open the Bible Daily - 5th October 2023

990

Open the Bible Daily - 4th October 2023

991

Open the Bible Daily - 3rd October 2023

992

Open the Bible Daily - 2nd October 2023

993

Open the Bible Daily - 1st October 2023

994

Open the Bible Daily - 30th September 2023

995

Open the Bible Daily - 29th September 2023

996

Open the Bible Daily - 28th September 2023

997

Open the Bible Daily - 27th September 2023

998

Open the Bible Daily - 26th September 2023

999

Open the Bible Daily - 25th September 2023

1000

Open the Bible Daily - 24th September 2023