The transformation from new believer to mature believer rarely happens in a neat, linear way. For most people, the road to redemption is littered with sin, struggle, and failure after failure....

Life is full of storms. We face difficulties of all types in this world, often experiencing clouds of doubt as to the outcome....

Does God seem distant from you at times? Often, we pray as if God is far away, when He is actually with us in all situations. ...

The book of Ruth tells us about the love of a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. There was a great famine in Israel during which Naomi and her husband, Elimelech, along with their sons, leave their home and move to Moab....

Fear can create doubt, making you believe your circumstances will never change. Your focus becomes fixed on your situation, and you don’t turn to God....

If you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice. It would be weird to get anything else....

When God opens a door of opportunity for you to walk through, you will encounter “opposition” from three areas. The first area of opposition comes from yourself....

Poor decisions can cause us to go down the wrong path before we even realize it. The direction we follow determines our destination—even if we did not intend to travel that path. ...

We can learn from Lot’s wife. In Genesis, chapter 19, the angels of the Lord warned Lot and his family of the urgency to flee from the destruction about to take place in their city....

Despite how dysfunctional King David’s family was and Tamar’s unfair call to silence in 2 Samuel 13, God made sure her story was recorded in the Bible. Perhaps God documented it for you to realize that the things that took place in your past—abuse, abandonment, lack of affection—weren’t your fault....