#ForTheHope daily audio Bible

Abandoning the gospel leads to hostility and slavery. Forgiveness doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences.

We receive the Holy Spirit and adoption as sons and daughters of the king only through faith in Jesus Christ.

We honor God when we play the role he wants us to play.

Jesus Christ died for our sins to rescue us from this evil age according to God’s will and for his glory.

The empty tomb demands a response.

God builds his kingdom on the tears of broken men and women who have hurt THE innocent one…Jesus the Christ.

The death and resurrection of Jesus transform the old into something brand new.

God’s heart is to help you lead others into righteous flourishing.

Spoiler alert: Jesus, the Messiah, is Lord.

When we choose not to attack authority figures who persecute us, we strengthen our position as the contrast in character becomes clear.

The increasing paranoia of secular political leadership may bring them to do some unrighteous stuff.

Does your use of whatever influence you have helping or hurting the mission of Jesus?

Are we tearing down or building up?

What makes a great leader is a confidence in God’s Word that enables you to make courageous faith-filled decisions for his kingdom.

The answer to every question is, “Come to me.”

God’s kingdom crosses racial, ethnic, and cultural boundaries. — open to all who recognize him as King

Whose smile are you looking for?

When we trust that Jesus is king we’ll act in faith, even when we have little to give.

God’s power is unleashed when we forget fear and trust that he is at work in a desperate situation.

Matching our personal agenda with God’s agenda is the secret sauce of successful leaders.

It’s God’s kingdom, and you can know for sure that God is at work. You’re invited to join.

The hurt has a purpose.

People over rules, intimacy over familiarity, God’s family over earthly.

While caring for all the details of our lives, Jesus is also aware of our deepest need. We must walk by faith in the promise that the righteous get their best lives later.

When we walk with God, we walk with others, and God uses that to fill emptiness.

Christ invites all who will hear to turn from their sin, trust Him as Lord and Savior, eagerly await His coming, and walk faithfully before Him until He comes.

One day when God returns to judge the church’s chief enemy, he will not forget the sacrifice of his faithful people

As God destroys the sin and wickedness that marks this world, those who have loved this world will experience bitter disappointment and divine judgement.

Part of the Christian’s ultimate hope is an end to the conflict between evil and the people of God.

When God pours out preliminary judgments on the world the church’s role is to maintain its faithful witness in the face of persecution until God vindicates his people.

If the church is victorious by remaining faithful in the midst of the pagan empire, they will joyfully stand before the throne and receive the reward of their future salvation.

All of heaven worships God and the Lamb because God is the sovereign creator of all things and through the Lamb has redeemed all things.

As goes the welfare of the home, so goes the welfare of the people.

Holding on to the right things hurts, too.

The church that refuses to compromise will be a faithful witness and receive a future reward.

At the heart of the book of Revelation is this: Gaze on the exalted and glorified Christ.

If you want a reputation as a beloved leader, walk in God’s truth, welcome God’s servants, and warn God’s people to acknowledge God’s apostles

A life of persistent trials demands a life of persevering faith

If you can even ask the question, “Am I really saved?,” you are. A true Christian has within him or her by virtue of their new birth a power to not sin…but it doesn’t mean we don’t.

The gospel should be both our model and motivation for loving others.

We are to discern between good and evil spirits, and we are to discern between true and false teachers…and that’s one and the same exercise.

Endure in everything, especially your confession that the real Jesus is Lord and Savior.

Your concrete expression of love gives you the very best evidence that you have experienced the transformation of life that comes from God through Christ.

The marks of a true Christian are a life dominated by consistent obedience, a confession that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, and love for other Christians.

God doesn’t just want to restore relationship, he wants to restore you with purpose.

The greatest sign of them all is the death, resurrection and exaltation of the incarnate Word.

Listen to Jesus’ voice ’til you long for and belong to the truth.

The Holy Spirit is a person to be worshipped, not a force to be wielded.

Jesus knows that under the right circumstances even those who profess to love him will deny him, including you and me.