It’s Personal

It’s Personal

To be a child at heart is not always a good thing, because “folly is bound up in the heart of a child” (Proverbs 22:15 ESV). Even the most compliant children have hard places in their hearts. They will defy rules, giving up reward for selfish pleasure. Sadly, this is...
Clearing Your Conscience

Clearing Your Conscience

Your conscience is that part of you that knows you deeply. The word conscience means a “knowing with” or “self-knowledge.” This is the part of you where God protects you from wrong choices, but also convicts you when you sin. When we have sinned against someone, the...
Grumbling

Grumbling

The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness (Exodus 16:2 NASB). We are world-class at some things, and grumbling is right up there at the top of the list. But we’re not the first, by a long shot. The word means to...
The Tragic Results of Jealousy

The Tragic Results of Jealousy

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman); and they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” And the LORD heard it. (Now the man...