Tag: Spiritual Growth

You Need God Today

Christian, if you are not reading God’s Word each day in order to commune with God, then you are not living the Christian life from day to day.

This is not a call to religious box-checking.

Reading the Bible every day does not earn favor with God. The issue is much more fundamental than that.

The Christian life is a life lived in fellowship with God.

Jesus told His disciples:

“Abide in me, and I in you.” – John 15.4

And just a few verses later:

“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you…” – John 15.7

Christianity is not merely believing the right things about God and then going about our lives. We have been brought into a relationship with Him. We are called to walk with Him, depend upon Him, listen to Him, trust Him, and increasingly have our lives shaped by Him.

That means Bible reading is about much more than information. You can read three chapters every morning, study difficult passages, know a great deal about the Bible, and still fail to come to the Scriptures to commune with God.

Yes, God has given us His Word. But the goal isn’t simply to get God’s Word into your schedule.

The goal is to get God’s Word into you.

To hear what God has said. To have your thinking corrected, your desires exposed, your fears confronted, and your priorities reordered. To be reminded again of what is true about God, about yourself, about this world, and about the life He has called you to live.

That is why yesterday isn’t enough.

Yesterday you needed God’s truth. Today you need it again. Yesterday your mind needed to be renewed. Today it does too. Yesterday you needed your heart redirected away from yourself and toward God. You will need that again today.

You cannot live today’s Christian life on yesterday’s communion with God.

This is not about guilt. It is about need.

The God who created you has spoken. The God who saved you has made Himself known. And He has graciously given you His Word so that you might know Him, believe Him, obey Him, delight in Him, and walk with Him.

So, Christian, open your Bible today.

Not merely because Christians are supposed to read their Bibles. Not so you can check another box. Not so you can feel better about yourself.

Open it because you need God today.

The Model of Biblical Masculinity

In a culture confused about manhood, we do not need new definitions.

We need to look at Jesus.

He initiated our salvation at the cost of His life.

He led by serving.

He provides for His people.

He protects His church – even to the point of death.

Biblical masculinity is not aggression.

It is not passivity.

It is not selfish ambition.

It is sacrificial leadership, humble service, faithful provision, and courageous protection.

In other words, biblical masculinity looks like Jesus.

The deeper a man’s relationship with Christ, the more he becomes the man God created him to be.

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” – Ephesians 5.25

Preference Builds Clubs; Grace Builds Churches

Clubs are built on preference.

You join because people share your interests, your temperament, and your expectations.

Clubs are designed for compatibility. When the fit no longer feels comfortable, you simply leave.

But the church is something different entirely. The church is not something we assemble according to our tastes.

Clubs gather around shared hobbies.

Churches gather around a crucified and risen King.

In a club, similarity is strength.

In a church, diversity is design.

The apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 12 that every member of the body is necessary, even the parts that seem weaker. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you.” What may appear unnecessary or inconvenient is often exactly what God intends for the health of the body.

And in Ephesians 4, Christ gives a variety of gifts to His people so that the whole body might grow. Maturity does not come from uniformity, but from each part working properly in love.

A club protects comfort.

A church produces maturity.

Preference builds something fragile.

Grace builds something enduring.

The local church is not a circle you curate; it is a people God assembles.
It is a covenant family. And grace, not preference, is what holds it together.

The church will not always feel easy. But what grace builds is stronger and far more beautiful than anything our preferences could ever create.