Exalting God, Edifying Believers, Evangelizing the Lost

Discontentment and Covetousness

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/09/20 Are you content with how your life has turned out? Are you happy with the career path, spouse, or home you have chosen? Are you enjoying this stage of your life for the blessings you have, or do you compare yourself to others and succumb to...
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Preparing the Soil

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/08/20 In Middle Eastern farming, there is a pathway between two fields. It is the boundary. It is the place where hard-packed earth is found. It is the strip in the field where the soil is not prepared for receiving the seed. The parable of the sower...
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Freedom from Performance

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/07/20 All people yearn to belong and to be known. In the quest for relationship and acceptance, people often seek to please, but who we are pleasing has eternal consequences. Let’s look at some different kinds of “pleasers.” The...
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True Freedom

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/06/20 Satan will entice you to use your freedom to sin. But true freedom means we are free from sin—free to serve Christ and live holy lives. Read 2 Peter 2:17-22. One of Satan’s cleverest tactics is to entice us into slavery by giving it a new...
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Everything We Need

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/05/20 Power for Christian living does not lie in hard-to-attain experiences. It comes from realizing God has already given us everything we need. Read 2 Peter 1:3-4. Have you ever been frustrated trying to chase the next spiritual experience? Or felt...
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