We must make our lives count for eternity because Jesus is worth it.
The end of the story isn’t really the end of the story. Everything from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 is just a prologue, just setting the stage. When we burst out of our graves to a New Creation, that will be when the real story begins.
Not everyone should go to the unreached peoples of the world. But we won't be effective at staying unless we are willing to go.
Prayer, according to the Bible, is asking God to do what He has already promised to do. But if that's true, then why should we pray in the first place?
Spiritual warfare is not some extra thing that a few Christians might encounter every once and a while. The Christian life itself is spiritual war.
We should be thankful that God doesn’t say “yes” to every prayer for healing. He so often uses pain and suffering and sickness to work in our life, doing things He couldn’t do any other way.
1 Corinthians 7 tells us that the single life is a unique gift from God, and many Christians should thoughtfully embrace singleness as the best way for them to glorify God in this short life we’ve been given.
In Christ, we all get to be a part of the real thing that human marriage is only a picture of.
As we choose to reject earthly treasure and commit ourselves to generosity, we’re not actually sacrificing anything. All we’re doing is transferring our treasure to a safer location.