It is truly unwise as a believer to forsake the Lord your God or forget His benefits to you. He is a faithful God who gave you wealth and the power to acquire it (Deuteronomy 8:18). As Pastor Jabin Chavez preached on Sunday, one of the great disciplines of the...

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught that God is kind to the ungrateful and wicked and encouraged us to do likewise (Luke 6:35). In the longer passage containing today’s verses, Jesus demonstrated this aspect of the Father’s character. How merciful! How gracious! Those who have trusted and surrendered...

Ten leprous men, standing at a distance, cried out to Jesus as He passed through their village, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” By calling Jesus “Master” (Epistata, Greek), they went beyond recognizing Him as a healer to acknowledging Him as “Superintendent” or “Commander,” meaning One with the divine...

Sometimes, we find ourselves in seasons when God’s promises seem far away. We pray, wait, and keep moving forward without knowing when or how everything will come together. Like Abraham, we may live in temporary stages before seeing the promise fulfilled. He did not see its fulfillment for a long...

Isn’t it beautiful that the final words of the Bible are a blessing and not a threat or curse? The Old Testament ends with the word “curse,” but the New Testament, after all the thunder, ends with the grace of Jesus Christ. It says, “The grace of our Lord Jesus...