Idols of the heart
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The God Who Is Better
Why Every Counterfeit Promise Fades in the Light of Christ Every one of us is searching for something. Some are searching for peace, others for purpose. Some long for acceptance. While others crave success, comfort, security, pleasure, or control. The problem isn’t that we long for something. It’s that we often look… Read more
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When You Feel Forgotten by Everyone
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” — Psalm 27:10 (KJV) There’re seasons of life that hurt in ways words can barely describe. Not because of a dramatic tragedy or a public loss, but because of a quieter pain—the ache of feeling forgotten. Perhaps… Read more
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Breaking the Chains Without Breaking the Soul
Loving Someone Trapped in Sin Without Losing Your Own Heart Very few things are more painful than watching someone you love to walk deeper into a life that’s slowly destroying them. Whether it’s addiction, pornography, alcohol, gambling, toxic relationships, or another sin that has quietly taken control, there’s a unique kind of heartbreak that comes… Read more
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When Comfort Becomes Your Master
When the Desire for Ease Quietly Replaces the Call to Follow Christ None of us wakes up in the morning intending to make comfort an idol. It happens slowly and almost unnoticed. We begin making small decisions based on what feels easiest instead of what honors God. We put off difficult conversations.… Read more
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Hungry for More
When Nothing in This World Truly Satisfies Have you ever noticed how quickly “enough” becomes “just a little more”? We tell ourselves that life will finally feel complete, if we can just reach the next milestone. A little more money, security or more success. If we only had a little more recognition, a better… Read more
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When Worship Quietly Changes Direction
When Success, Ministry, or Reputation Quietly Replaces Christ “Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.” — 1 John 5:21 (KJV) When most Christians hear the word idol, they picture a carved image standing in a pagan temple. They think of the golden calf in the wilderness or statues made of wood and… Read more
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The Secret Chains
Finding Freedom from Pornography Through Christ “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” — John 8:36 (KJV) There’re chains that everyone can see. Addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, and anger that erupts in public. Then there’re chains no one else notices. They hide behind locked phone screens, private browser… Read more
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Loving Someone You Can’t Rescue
Finding Hope, While Trusting God with Someone You Love “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ… For every man shall bear his own burden.” — Galatians 6:2,5 (KJV) Loving someone who’s struggling with addiction can feel like drowning while standing on dry ground. You watch someone you love slowly to… Read more
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When the Bottle Becomes Your Refuge
Finding Hope Beyond Alcohol “The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.” — Proverbs 18:10 (KJV) There’re places that all of us run when life hurts. Some people throw themselves into work. Others into hobbies, entertainment, or endless distractions. Some scroll through their phones… Read more
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What Holds Your Heart?
Finding Freedom from the Counterfeit Treasures We Never Meant to Build “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” — Matthew 6:21 (KJV) Have you ever held a counterfeit bill? At first glance, it looks genuine. The colors are convincing. The size is right. The paper feels close enough that most… Read more
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God’s Promises for Difficult Seasons: When You Can’t See the Next Step
Trusting God’s Faithfulness When the Path Ahead Is Unclear There’re seasons in life when the path ahead seems hidden from view. We ask where God’s Promises are? We pray for direction, but answers don’t come. We ask God for clarity, but instead we find ourselves standing in uncertainty. It can feel as though… Read more
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The Man Everyone immediately, had Given Up On.
Looking beyond a person’s worst mistakes to discover the grace of the Savior who’s never given up on broken people. There are some people in this world that society looks at and silently decides are too far gone. Too broken, too dirty, addicted., reckless, too sinful, and too damaged to save…. They’ve been given… Read more
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Faith After Failure
When your past feels heavier than your future, discover the hope of a God who restores instead of condemns after our failures. “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten…” — Joel 2:25 There’re few burdens heavier than regret, especially over a failure. Not the regret of things done… Read more
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The Light After the Storm: Seeing God’s Faithfulness in Retrospect
Sometimes we can’t see God’s hand in the storm, while we’re still in it. But when we look back, we realize He was never absent—He was carrying us through it all. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God…” — Romans 8:28 There’s a strange clarity that can… Read more
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Grace for the Waiting: Trusting God in the Pause
Waiting isn’t wasted when God is in it. Even in the silence, He is still working, still present, and still faithful. “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles…” — Isaiah 40:31 There’s something uniquely difficult about seasons where nothing seems to be changing.… Read more
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Joy in the Journey: Finding Hope in the Everyday
Joy isn’t found only at the end of the journey. Sometimes God’s sweetest blessings are hidden in the ordinary moments we are tempted to rush past. “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” — Psalm 118:24 There’s a quiet trap that many of us… Read more
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Small Steps of Faith That Lead to Big Change
Never underestimate what God can do through one simple act of obedience. The smallest step taken in faith today, may become the turning point that changes your tomorrow. “For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel…” —Zechariah 4:10 There’re… Read more
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When God Restarts Your Story | Finding Hope After Failure Through God’s Grace
What feels like the end of your story may be the very place God restarts your story. He’s still the God of new beginnings. “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”… Read more
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God’s Unfailing Grace: Rising After Every Fall
No failure is greater than God’s mercy. No broken place is beyond His restoring grace. No matter how many times you’ve fallen, His grace is still calling you to rise again. “It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy… Read more
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“I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”
When You Don’t Know Which Way to Go; I Am is the way. “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” — Proverbs 3:5–6 (KJV) There’re seasons in life when the road ahead seems hidden… Read more
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