As I mentioned last week, although there are dozens of things that we should consider “banning” from our lives, I am suggesting that we concentrate, at least for now, on just three. In my last two blogs, I focused on banning both “WORRY” and ‘HOARDING” from our lives. This week,

In response to the current virus pandemic, the word “ban” is popping up much more frequently in all our conversations. As we saw last week, “ban” is a verb that means to “stop,” “to cease,” or “to forbid.” Although there are dozens of things that we should consider “banning” from

Maybe for some, the word “ban” is a relatively new word in their vocabulary. With all the freedoms we have here in American, we seldom hear the word “ban.” But with the current spread of the COVID-19 virus, we are hearing the word much more frequently. Ban is a verb

I’m sure that we can all point to a time in our lives when fear seemed to overwhelm us. Looking back, we realize that we somehow managed to make it through, but not without a great deal of emotional “hand-wringing” and “heart-wrenching” turmoil. Fear is a natural human response to

As we have seen in our previous blogs, the initial step in defeating the devil and his schemes is to RESIST him. And, his primary weapon to steal our hopes and our joy is “the lie.” Remember what Jesus said about the devil, that he is a “…liar and the

In my last blog, we concluded by looking at the strategy that the Apostle James gives us when temptation knocks on our door. His strategy is short and simple,  “Submit to God and resist the devil” (Js. 4:7). If we are to overcome the temptation that is presented to us,

Last week, we discovered that our most intense struggles in life do not generally come from what we can see, but from what we cannot see. As we saw last week, the Apostle Paul identified this “unseen enemy” as “rulers,” “powers,” “world forces of darkness,” and as “spiritual forces of

Many writers have spoken of the “enemy of our souls,” And it stands to reason that if this enemy is targeting our souls, then he must be “unseen.” If fact, that is exactly what the Apostle Paul told the Church in Ephesus, “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood

Those of us on the excursion to the national park in Thailand had no idea that the place where the van dropped us off was at the top of a mountain, and that the advertised 30-minute hike would take us down the mountain through a narrow gorge with some of

Each of the eight remaining teams in contention to reach the Super Bowl are well aware of this one thing – only one of the teams will receive the Lombardi trophy. Seven of today’s remaining teams will end their season with a “loss.” In the “game” of life, Paul reminds