Satisfaction in Life
Satisfaction is a quality issue, not a quantity issue. The key to personal satisfaction is not in broadening your involvements but in deepening them through a commitment to quality.
Helping Others Find Freedom
The main qualification for helping others find freedom is not an unusual giftedness or calling. It is godly character and the ability to teach.
Forgiving Your Past
Why should you forgive those who have hurt you in the past? Let’s explore three biblical reasons for forgiveness and how forgiveness leads to freedom.
The Ministry of Reconciliation
When we are reconciled to God, we become brothers and sisters in Christ, and that is the basis for our unity. We must personally choose to be reconciled to God by faith, but it is universally inclusive, and we must voluntarily receive reconciliation as a gift to voluntarily share it as a ministry.
The Basis of Our Hope
Hope is the present assurance of some future good. David battled depression and wrote about it in Psalms. Through his writing we can see three scriptural ways to overcome depression.
The Importance of Community
Where better to learn to love one another, accept one another, forgive one another and bear with one another than in community? Godly character is forged in the crucible of committed relationships.
Relating to One Another
One of the greatest challenges in life is learning to love one another in a fallen world. As believers in Christ, we are responsible for our own character and the needs of those around us.
The Choice of Forgiveness
Why is forgiveness so critical to our freedom? Because of the cross. God didn't give us what we deserve; He gave us what we needed according to His mercy.
The Judgment and Defeat of Satan
The explicit purpose of Christ’s coming into this world was to destroy the devil’s work. Satan’s doom will be to share the eternal punishment of those whom he deceived.
God's Protection
God’s protection from demonic attack is not something you can take for granted. This protection is conditional on your willingness to respond to God’s provision.
Ignoring the Enemy
There are three ways of responding to the demonic taunts and barbs being thrown at you during your daily walk with Christ, and two of these ways are wrong.
Discerning Good and Evil
Mature Christians should share their discernment that something is wrong but should not suggest or even hint as to what is wrong without knowing the facts.
Standing Against Mental Assaults
In order to stand against Satan’s mental assaults, we must think only upon matters that are true and reflect God and His Word. Then we must put our righteous thoughts into practice.
The Battle of the Mind
The mind is a battleground for sin to either reign or be surrendered. This is why it is so important to renew the mind and take every thought captive to Christ.
Satan's Primary Strategy
If Satan can place a thought in your mind, it isn't much more of a trick for him to make you think it's your idea. Deception is his primary strategy—which is why you must know the Truth, because the Truth will set you free.
The Work of Our Enemy
Satan, the author of evil and the father of lies, relentlessly attacks the children of God, who is the author of life and the Spirit of truth.
Combating Spiritual Blindness
We need to pray for each other continually that Satan's smoke screen of lies will be blown away and that our vision into the spiritual realm will be crystal clear.