Knowing God vs. Knowing About God
We live in a world overflowing with information about God—sermons, podcasts, books, and theological resources at our fingertips. But information is not intimacy. You can memorize every verse, master every doctrine, and still miss the Person those truths reveal.
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Wearing Your Faith: The Visibility of Humility
There’s a kind of Christlikeness you can’t fake — the kind you notice before a single word is spoken. It’s the quiet way a person listens, the gentleness in how they treat others, the sense that they’re not trying to win the room but to serve the people in it. Scripture calls that humility, and Philippians 2:3 tells us it’s one of the most visible marks of the Spirit’s work in a believer. But if humility is a sign of grace, pride is the shadow that threatens it — as David’s story painfully shows. This devotion explores how pride quietly grows, how it breaks what it touches, and how God, in mercy, restores the heart that finally bows low before Him.
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Apostolic Hermeneutics
Apostolic hermeneutics is the Spirit‑guided approach by which the apostles interpreted the Old Testament as a unified, Christ‑centered revelation, seeing its promises fulfilled in Jesus and His church rather than awaiting separate national or political fulfillment.
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Rare Divine Satisfaction
How many times does the Old Testament say that God was satisfied? You may not realize how rare it is for the bible to say that God is satisfied. Pleasure and satisfaction, while they often work in concert with one another, are not interchangeable.
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Find Your Harbor
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling... Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
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Vanity or Victory?
There are seasons in life when the ground beneath us feels utterly solid — when health is good, relationships are whole, and the future seems bright. In these seasons, Solomon’s reflections can feel deeply heavy, and many prefer not to meditate on them. Still, we are wise to learn from Solomon even in times of joy, for it is always right to lift our eyes beyond this fading world toward the heavens because no one is immune to seasons of darkness.
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What does it mean that we are made in God's image?
The Latin phrase is imago Dei, and it stands as one of the most profound declarations in all of Scripture. But let us be careful — this does not mean that we are little gods. That is a heresy, and a dangerous one at that. What it means is that God, in His perfect wisdom, has blessed us to share in certain of His characteristics by granting us physical bodies through which to experience them.
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Israel's Land Promise
You have seen the headlines over recent months. Many of you may have sincere, searching questions about Israel — about what is happening in the Middle East, and about what, if anything, the Bible has to say about it. That is a good instinct. The desire to run to Scripture when the world feels unstable is precisely the right move. But we must be careful. Current events make a poor lens through which to read Scripture. Scripture, however, makes an excellent lens through which to read current events.
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