Tag: spiritual warfare

Discussion-based lessons have groups talking and changing. We are changed more by what we say than...

Oh, by the way, let me give some credit where credit is due. The genesis of my thinking on this...

Woe to those weak and timid souls who are divided between God and their world! They want and they...

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We must be saved from what’s going on inside. And so far as I know, no other candidate for soter...

I wonder if anyone learned anything tonight. I wonder if any lives were changed. It was enjoyable....

NOVEMBER IS NOT my favorite month. It starts to get dark early, and I hate the dark. I also hate...

When Jesus said that all the commandments can be summed up in loving God and loving our neighbors,...

There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we may be...

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Jesus said the most important thing we can do is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and...

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. GALATIANS 2:20 It...

It’s likely that your schedule is already packed and that the idea of becoming a good neighbor...

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the...

To hold to a doctrine or an opinion with the intellect alone is not to believe it. A man’s real...

Leaving that meeting, we began to pray about what God was leading us to do next. As we began to...

Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon...

In 2009 I (Dave) gathered a group of twenty lead pastors in the Denver area so we could think,...

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Last year my parents invited a big crowd to their house for Thanksgiving. During dinner the...

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of...

I close this chapter with a section on how to learn any technology. Does it sound like I have...

Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon...

Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his...

Leon, Joseph, and Clyde all suffered from a messiah complex. It was not just a touch of narcissism...

We can safely say that the Sermon on the Mount has been more widely acclaimed than any other...

There has never been a better time to teach the Bible or lead a Bible study group than there is...

One of the stories that “go on repeating themselves”—perhaps the Great Story—is the story of the...

The most common objection against the command to pursue joy is that Jesus commanded just the...

Historians have long debated whether Abraham Lincoln was a Christian. Since his death in 1865, he...

The Navigators have a principle they call the with-them principle. It is based on Mark 3.14: He...

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and...

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Joy is the serious business of heaven. — C. S. LEWIS Sometime ago I was giving a bath to our...

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It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift...

Delight yourself in the LORD. (Psalm 37:4) Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice....

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. — DIETRICH...

Bruce Wilkinson has an excellent book every teacher ought to read: The Seven Laws of the Learner....

Several years ago I was asked to speak at a reunion of the Navigators at Estes Park, Colorado. At...

[The Widow Douglas] told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. . . . She...

Another well-known cognitive bias is called the actor-observer bias. It’s simply this: We see our...

When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that...

God’s will is that you be saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering. God’s Word...

There is a difference between teaching for application and teaching for commitment. We need both....

Imagine yourself as a house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, you understand what...

As leaders of the church, we are in the salvation business. The whole of the gospel is intent on...

You will not be surprised to learn that everyone asks the same question when I share that God has...

Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon...

We have just released a new Bible Study based on Ermin Lutzer’s book, God’s Devil....

Hank, as we’ll call him, was a cranky guy. He did not smile easily, and when he did, the smile...

We want our children to learn the meaning of 1 Thess. 5:17, which teaches us to “pray...

Effective Bible Teachers teach for application. Relentlessly. Constantly. Aggressively. For...

THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, applications and steps of action have been identified. But summarizing some...

This is my favorite. I love a good Bible discussion. I love it when people disagree. I love it...

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WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new...

I was privileged to hear Mike Dean preach recently. The big idea of the message was on service. We...

Rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy. « 1 Peter 1:8 Mr. Davidson lived next to the park...

Effective Bible Teachers evaluate every story by two things. Is it interesting? Does it fit?...

Think of all Christ accomplished. He kept the prescriptive and penal requirements of the law. He...

There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and...

Who is the greatest teacher who ever lived? Jesus. And how did Jesus primarily teach? All Jesus...

When I wrote my book, Teach Like Jesus, there is something I left out. Jesus’ teaching was clear...

The classic passage on conversion is John 3, where Jesus talks with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and...

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Don’t be dismayed that this...

What makes a “big” prayer? A multitude of words doesn’t do it. Only prayers that are consistent...

Having examined the “who” of the Holy Spirit, we now turn to examine the “what,” as in: “What does...

What exactly does it mean to teach the Word of God? This may seem like an easy question, but it is...

A Christian writer says, “We don’t get joy by seeking a better emotional life, because joy is not...

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with particular things I have done as...

My day job is writing Bible Study Lessons. I have probably written more Bible Study Lessons than...

What was God’s remedy for Elijah’s depression? There are four things Elijah did to get rid of his...

My dad used to say: “You gotta know what the Bible says before you can understand what it means.”...

I want to pray bigger, and better. I want you to, too. Our prayers tell us a great deal about...

The word for “spirit” is ruach in Hebrew and pneuma in Greek. The former is used roughly ninety...

In his bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell explains how...

Everyone is tuned in to radio station WIIFM: What’s in it for me? If you can show people how the...

Titus 2.10 says we are to make the gospel attractive. Attractive. The Greek word is kosmeo. It...

Conclusion: Looking for Black Swan Moments Evangelism Happens When We Least Expect It In 2007,...

The worst kind of introduction is perhaps the most common: “Open your Bibles today to . . .” Most...

God intends the Christian life to be a life of joy—not drudgery. The idea that holiness is...

The very beginning point of teaching must grab the attention of people. It draws them into what...

In Detroit in the 1930s, three young men boarded a bus and attempted to pick a fight with a...

Preparation is the key to almost anything. There is an old saying: success equals preparation plus...

There has never been a better time to be a Bible Teacher than today. This is true on several...

I believe that two of the great skills that we can learn in this life are first to treasure our...

There is an old saying that goes, “We are going to teach our way out of this problem.” Here is...

The fourth mistake Elijah made is that he exaggerated the negative. He said, “I am the only one...

I have heard this stat for years: 75% of churches are plateaued or declining. Here is the latest:...

We desperately need an army of Effective Bible Teachers. What is an Effective Bible Teacher? An...

My first pastor often cited Oswald Chambers’s My Utmost for His Highest, and I eagerly read that...

LEADERS SOMETIMES MAKE audacious statements and then lead people to fulfill them. Leaders turn...

The Old and New Testaments are filled with the promises of the second coming of Christ. In the Old...

How we are behind the closed doors of our own private castle is how we really are. That’s the real...

The waiter brings the meals steaming hot from the kitchen and places them dramatically on the...

We have just released a new Bible Study based on Ermin Lutzer’s book, God’s Devil....