Once a person begins to follow Jesus, there’s an initial and important question: “What’s God’s will for my life?” We must seek God’s will, as the Apostle John writes, “The world is passing away, along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever” (1 John 2:17, ESV). There’s an easy principle […]
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Chapter four of Revelation has only 11 verses. And these verses share a perspective totally unique in the Bible. Typically, we think of heaven coming down to us just as Jesus preached at the beginning of His ministry in Matthew 4:17b, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” But in Revelation chapter 4,
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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways (Romans 11:33, ESV)! Studying the reliability of Scripture, we quickly discover topics such as inspiration, archaeological evidence, and the copious amount of early New Testament manuscripts compared with other ancient documents. But there
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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you (James 4:8a, ESV). My spiritual desire in 2026 has been to draw nearer to God. Only in His presence do I find peace, purpose, and power. Below are a few notes of my discoveries in my “drawing near” quest this year. One: God will draw
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Barna Research just published an article entitled The Big Questions on Teens’ Minds Today. Avowed readers of Interruptions know that I “GEEK OUT” on Barna reports, and when I receive pertinent results from the Barna organization, I get it to you faster than a quark gulping Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. (Paid subscribers to Interruptions expect
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15, ESV). Today, we learn a lesson about interpreting the Bible — and that lesson is context! I’m listing three topics, of which I’ve heard preachers, teachers, and
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When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you (Matthew 6:6, ESV). There are thousands of books and pamphlets published on the topic of prayer every year. Alice, my AI assistant, researched the matter and told
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And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: “The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14, ESV). The last letter of the Book of Revelation to the seven churches was written to Laodicea. We’ve heard the phrase “saving the best for last,” but this letter should be
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And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel
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Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ (Colossians 3:23-24, ESV, emphasis added). I just read an article from a sophisticated psychology journal that proclaimed procrastination is not laziness. Whew, my first, second, third, fourth,