It’s easy to try to appear righteous when someone is doing something you think is wrong and say that you are mostly concerned about God or them. But it is important that you evaluate whether or not the reason…

It’s easy to try to appear righteous when someone is doing something you think is wrong and say that you are mostly concerned about God or them. But it is important that you evaluate whether or not the reason…

Your speech is powerful.It has a tremendous impact on your life and the life of people around you. There's a way of talking that changes lives for the better and a way of talking that changes lives for the worse…

Satan has schemes. You need to know them. What are some of his favorite strategies? In previous posts, we've talked about lying, blinding, hindering, persecuting, tempting, misdirecting and dividing…

Jay Adams:“If love has grown cold in a family, the counselor should encourage the husband to do something about it. He must urge him to emulate the love of Jesus Christ for His church…

Let’s talk about the way you talk.You do a lot of talking. That ability to communicate is a gift. But this ability to communicate is not only a gift, it is also a responsibility…

Satan has strategies. What are some of his schemes for attacking us as believers? 1. Lying 2. Blinding 3. Hindering 4. Persecuting 5. TemptingAnd when he tempts, he is subtle. He tries to make obedience to God look bad…

It seems to me that if we are engaged in a war with an enemy who has strategies, we would want to know what those strategies are. God in His Word gives us a guidebook to the enemy’s strategies and so far, we have identified four. 1. He lies. This is is his basic approach…

Jesus described Satan as a murderer. He attacks God's people and in 1 John 3, we see that Satan has been using people to physically attack God’s people for a very long time…

I suppose if Satan can’t get you to listen to a false teacher, he’ll try to stop people from hearing a good one. Sometimes he uses people to distract others from hearing the gospel…

Satan wants to keep people from seeing the beauty of Jesus. While The Bible doesn’t say a lot about what Satan does to unbelievers, one of the things that it does say is found in 2 Corinthians 4:4…

One of the most important things you can know about the devil is that he is a liar. Jesus tells us that in John 8:44. He is speaking to a group of people who were rejecting him…

If you have ever looked at your work and been disappointed with the results, you are definitely not the first.Isaiah tells us that even Jesus became discouraged.In fact, in Isaiah 49:4 he says, “I have toiled in vain…

I don’t know how anyone who calls themselves a Christian could argue about the importance of holiness. And yet you know, the fact of the matter is, if you are serious about this, as a goal…

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the way Christians talk should be their consistent commitment to speaking truth. Unfortunately, lying is such a part of our culture and such a part of our past…

Marriage. You wouldn’t think I would need to do much work stressing the importance of this subject. After all, it seems kind of obvious that it is important…

Is your speech harmful? To answer that question, you have to be able to identify harmful speech. One way to do that is to think of specific examples of that kind of talk…

I am not completely sure what people mean when they say they are "insecure." I suppose they mean that they aren't very confident and have a negative view of themselves and what is happening in their lives…

Lesson 1 “When Life Hurts”. Summary: This lesson shows what the Bible teaches about how to respond to the difficult experiences of life. Outline: 1. Getting Started (5 minutes)…

Ephesians 4:25 "Speak the truth to one another" There is more to being holy in your speech than simply stopping lying. We need to develop a whole other way of speaking to one another…