Loving God more and getting closer to Him should be the top priority of our lives. Anything else that becomes a top priority is an idol. An idol can be anyone or anything we place our affection and trust in above God. Our most important resolution should be to keep Him first in our lives. This is a constant battle. What is the most effective way to do this? 

          Making New Year’s resolutions can be helpful, but even more helpful is making daily resolutions. There...

     In I Chronicles 16:29, II Chronicles 20:21, Psalms 29:2 and 96:9, we find the phrase “the beauty of holiness.” In our time, the word holiness has come to mean legalism and the intolerance of the self-righteous. This reveals the level of deception the devil has been able to spread throughout the world and inject into Christianity to the point legalism has become synonymous with Christianity. This will change.

     This evil, legalistic, religious spirit now has more influence in the church than the Holy Spirit. However, a revelation of true holiness is coming to...

        In I Chronicles 16:29, II Chronicles 20:21, Psalm 29:2 and 96:9, we find the phrase “the beauty of holiness.” There is a beauty to holiness to which all people are drawn. There is a repulsion in counterfeit holiness by which all people are repelled. To distinguish between true and false holiness is critical to the victorious Christian life. It is the difference between being on the path of life and being on the road to...

        In II Corinthians 13:5-6, we are instructed, “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?” This is an important exhortation. However, I have asked many Christians and Christian leaders if they are doing this, and so far I have not found one who was or could even...

        Christian denominations and institutions have been losing large numbers of people in recent decades. However, in the last few years, this has accelerated after national and international crises like the COVID pandemic. Though this may sound counterintuitive, this is a sign a great move of God is nearing. This is the pruning of God’s tree, so it can bear the greater fruit that is coming.

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