Christian artists through the centuries have drawn many pictures of Peter standing at a gate in heaven, holding a set of huge keys, and allowing the righteous to enter while turning sinners away. That is not what Jesus meant when he promised the keys of the kingdom to Peter.

The Holy Spirit is the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead. You have to know whether He lives in you, or not. But how can you tell?

You can tell a tree by its fruit. Jesus Christ is the Tree of Life, and if a person is a true believer, they will be trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD. Just like you can tell an orange tree by its fruit; you can tell a minister, sent from God, by his converts...

It all began as I was growing up. I lived in a 5 bedroom brick house in Atlanta, Georgia. My parents were just middle class working people but they had nice things. However, the economy took a turn for the worst and prices for things, like houses and cars, have sky rocketed...

Too often we believe that God is some distant and inapproachable object who remains out of our reach. I hear people say that they are searching, or looking for God, as though He is lost. Yet, it is you and I who are aloof, distant, and hard to reach...

All of my relational, political, and social needs were defined by a worldview that fed my appetites and met my needs, albeit just temporarily. My world was centered around the idea that the unholy trinity of me-myself-and-I was sufficient to provide vision, inspiration, answers … and even legacy...

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more...

Paul talked about a thorn in his flesh. He said he asked God to remove it three times. He said it had been given to him lest he be exalted above measure due to the abundance of revelations. God told Paul that his grace was sufficient...

I was sitting on the balcony, of an Oceanfront Condo in Hawaii, when a thought popped into my mind. The thought was, “Is God still doing miracles like the ones he did in the Bible?” My wife called me so that we could go and eat. As we were driving down Front Street, in downtown Lahaina, I saw the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant on the right hand side...

A holiday created to celebrate the blessedness of giving every May 7th. This holiday was created for the glory of God, based off the verse Acts 20:35, that reads "I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."