There are some things you don’t really know about yourself until pressure comes. It’s easy to say: “I trust God.” Until something happens that tests that trust. It’s easy to say: “Prayer matters.” Until the schedule gets full. Until you’re disappointed. Until God seems silent. Until prayer itself starts costing you something. That’s where we…
Daniel and his friends had been carried into Babylon. Everything around them had changed. Their location changed. Their education changed. Their language changed. Even their names changed. But something inside them didn’t change. Daniel 1:8 told us: “But Daniel resolved…” Daniel had already decided who he belonged to. If you wait until the pressure comes…
Have you ever looked around and thought: “Things sure have changed.” One day you look around and realize the world you are living in feels very different from the world you remember. Technology changes. Values change. Relationships change. Families change. Communities change. Churches change. And sometimes our personal world changes suddenly. A phone call. A…
In so much of John’s Gospel the question of the identity of Jesus is paramount.Is he a man? Is he the prophet? Is he the messiah? Is he the Son of God? Now, following Jesus’ miracle of giving sight to the man born blind, we find again a discussion of who Jesus is. There are…
When Daniel learned that the new law had been signed, he went home and knelt down to pray as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows wide open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done his entire life, thanking and praising God. So Daniel’s enemies went together…
Daniel Chapter 5 is a contrast between two different types of people. Belshazzar, the king, and Daniel. Belshazzar is prideful, arrogant and did not learn from his grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar. He made 3 fatal mistakes. He chose to ignore God, he chose to ignore the lessons from his grandfather, and he chose to be prideful and…