Daily Challenges Archive

When I was in high school, there was a musical making its way around churches that included a song that went, “There’s power in the name, power in the name, power in the name of Jesus.” Solomon is basically telling us the same thing here. Although...

We often see and hear this verse when someone is talking about their closest friends. That is quite an honor—to be known as that kind of friend. The depth of this truth goes to places some of us don’t even realize exist, at least not until we actu...

When my kids were young, they spent a couple of years at a Christian school. Part of the attraction was that they taught every subject, from science to P.E., as a reflection of our Creator. They taught math with a foundational understanding that i...

In some of the training we do on influencing your world for Christ, I often talk about the fact that it didn’t take Jesus nearly as long as it takes us to speak into someone’s deepest needs because He could see into their hearts. For us, it often ...

I’ve talked about being messy mortals. Rick Riordan wrote about messy immortals: “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is remind each other that we’re related, for better or for worse… and try to ...

Lost people typically have an insatiable appetite for sin. Sometimes they pursue particular sins with an appetite that drives them deeper and deeper into darkness. Those trapped in sexual sin, alcoholism, or even the pursuit of money and power wil...

Those in the world of theology who keep up with such things would tell us that this represents one of the 8,800 promises God makes to us in Scripture. The righteous cannot be uprooted. That’s the promise. It should give great comfort and encourage...

Another translation puts it this way: “Riches won’t help on the day of judgment, but right living can save you from death.” For all the power that money seems to bring someone in life, it is totally impotent in death. Many people spend their entir...

Don Cornell wrote and recorded a song titled No Man Is an Island. No Man Is an Island is also the title of a 1955 book by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Joan Baez is better known for recording John Donne’s meditation No Man Is an Island as a spo...

Satan does not advertise the consequences of sin. However, they are not all that difficult to see if you look. The eyes of the lost are blinded spiritually, preventing them from seeing the spiritual death that awaits them because of their sin. Yet...

Someone once told me that this verse sounds incredibly arrogant. They said it actually sounds a lot like most politicians we hear these days. One of the tragedies of politics is the belief that you have to constantly market yourself. However, Solo...

If we don’t know God’s truth, it can be very easy for someone to lead us astray. There’s no shortage of people who will twist His truth. A different word here or there in a passage of Scripture can completely change its meaning, making it inaccura...