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 …

God works in our lives to carry out His will and to reach others for His kingdom, despite our tendencies to be self-willed. He is extremely concerned with each of our lives today and into eternity. As we live in this world, it is hard to see beyond our circumstances and our needs. Instead of …

We live in a time when the lines between the ways of the world and the ways of God are blurred or extremely different from what they used to be. Even during the apostle Paul’s time, nearly two thousand years ago, Paul had to deal with sin that remained in the Church of Corinth among …

Our pride, selfishness, insecurity, and misunderstanding of others cause so much fear and anger in this world. These emotions and actions cause a division among us and give our true enemy a foothold to tear us even further apart and destroy us. Do we not have one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? Why …

A quote from The Magician’s Nephew says, “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” Everyone we continue to spend time with is a possible ally or frustration, depending on the relationship. To develop a healthy relationship and …

We need to understand that when the door to the spiritual realm opens, we will then deal with a force outside of the natural realm, which yet affects our physical realm. Paul warned us about opening the door and the danger that comes from that realm. He wrote, “In your anger, do not sin, do …