Another area in which we open the door for hurting our relationships and for Satan to get a foothold is in the “us and them” mentality. Regardless of culture, gender, financial status, and the like, division causes us to see others as rivals, or even enemies, which will in turn cause conflict and pain. Even …

Satan has always twisted the truth just enough to make it questionable; he started with Adam and Eve in the garden, saying, “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4 NKJV). Throughout the ages, Satan continues to feed us a version of the truth that causes us to question what God created and to stimulate our …

Over the centuries, we have blurred the line between true reality and the reality we have created from our own skewed understanding. The issue we have, as intelligent beings, is that all of creation—and its purpose—is so vast that our finite minds will never grasp it in its entirety. We fill in the gaps with …

During the infancy of the early church, the people received the preaching of the baptism of the Holy Spirit; Paul ensured that the believers understood the difference between John and Jesus’s baptisms. “He then asked, ‘Then into what were you baptized?’ They answered, ‘Into John’s baptism.’ Then Paul said, ‘John baptized when they repented, telling …

Because of God’s work through His disciples, a great transition took place in the first couple of centuries of Christianity. As the church was growing, the attitude of the believers, or “Followers of The Way,” was that they were to see beyond their circumstances and focus on the seriousness of the grace given them concerning …