Christian Living
Explore foundational principles and practical guidance for daily Christian life. Discover a wide range of topics aimed at fostering spiritual growth, maturity, and consistent obedience in your walk with God.
Abiding in Christ
After the last supper, Jesus led His disciples out, and He no doubt passed some…
David Encouraged Himself
Someone has rightly said that if the Devil had to give up all his weapons…
Real Life
John is going to tell us three things about this eternal life: that this life…
The Idolatry of Numbers
The idolatry of numbers is a sad substitution. Because as the trend increases, the true…
Rest For Your Soul
To hearts that are feeling restless, Christ’s words are like water in the desert: “I…
The Cross-Centered Life
What if there was a place, that if you went there, you would immediately be…
Humble Yourself
What is the name of the key that we keep using to draw nearer to…
Seeking God
The difference between a Christian life that is far from God, and one that experiences…
Pleasing God
Everyone has a pleasure theory. Everyone has a belief as to what will bring them…
My Future Commitment
Many people promise commitment to Christ sometime in the future, when they think it will…
Free to Choose
Are humans robots or do we have freedom? The Bible teaches a responsible use of…
Fighting Guilt Like Micah
Guilt is not meant to paralyse us into retreat. Micah teaches us the skill of…
Loving God in Sincerity
And so Ephesians ends on the highest note possible: May God’s grace assist those who…
Biblical Spiritual Warfare—Part 2
How do we wage spiritual warfare? We are in the battle, of that there is…
Biblical Spiritual Warfare—Part 1
What is spiritual warfare? An entire folk theology has been created in the last century…
Spirit-Filled Families
God wants families to be strong, if there are to be churches and nations that…
Spirit-Filled Wives
Unity comes from lovingly fulfilling your role in the way God commanded. God commanded the…
Spirit-Filled Husbands
A family will go no further for God than the spiritual effectiveness of its leader.…
The Sacred Symbolism of Marriage
This is the heart of marriage, one man, one woman, leaving the authority of their…
The Christian and Television
What should a Christian’s attitude be toward television? Some Christians have no television at all…
God-Pleasing Speech
A Christlike person, one seeking to become like Jesus Christ and walk in holiness, cannot…
Overcoming the Crippling Fear of Man—Part 3
There is a third kind of fear of man– fear of man attacking, threatening or…
Overcoming the Crippling Fear of Man—Part 2
When fearing man, we fear three things: 1) We fear that people will humiliate us:…
Overcoming the Crippling Fear of Man—Part 1
The fear of man is an important theme throughout Scripture. God knows that if we…
Nothing But the Truth
One of the most integral parts of holiness is honesty. In fact, you cannot progress…
The Walk of Holiness
When you hear the word ‘holiness’, what comes into your mind? Some immediately think of…
Treasuring God as Gracious
Grace is the wonderful heart of God that loves us not because of what we…
The Christian Life
Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:16-21 is a succinct study of the Christian life.
Be Filled With the Spirit—Part 2
What is it to be illuminated by the Spirit and live in God’s presence?
Be Filled With the Spirit—Part 1
What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? Ephesians 5:18 remains a command…
The Sovereignty of Truth
What is the controlling authority in Christianity? Pragmatism? Popularity? Prosperity? In this programme, we consider…
‘Zealless’ or Zealous?
What does it mean to have “zeal” for the Lord? To be fervent in spirit…
The Indispensable Need For Illumination
The Spirit’s work of illumination is the crucial ministry of enabling us to see and…
The Treasure of the Son’s Supremacy
In a glorious passage, Paul describes the absolute centrality of Jesus to the plan of…
The Treasure of the Son Saving Us
Ephesians describes the great glory of redemption: the Son saving us from darkness and uniting…
The Treasure of the Father Selecting Us
What does Scripture mean that God chose us? Election is not a doctrine to be…
The Treasure of the Trinity
The glorious, central truth of the Christian faith is that God is a glorious God…
Co-Existing With Canaanites
If we are to truly enter the Christlike, mature Christian life, we must face the…
Biblical Separation—Part 5
Biblical separation sometimes includes the painful task of separating from professing believers.
Biblical Separation—Part 4
Separation is to include separating from false doctrine and false teaching. We are not to…
Biblical Separation—Part 3
We are not only to separate from sin, but from the world, and in some…
The Treasure of the Spirit Sealing Us
The Holy Spirit’s ministry of sealing the believer is a great source of comfort, hope…
Biblical Separation—Part 2
Our first step of separation must be against the enemy of sin. Identifying it, mortifying…
Biblical Separation—Part 1
Separation may not be a popular topic, in a world where unity is celebrated. Yet…
Resurrection Christians
Christians are to live out their newness of life by mortifying the old, and yielding…
Repent is An Event
While the Christian life is a process of becoming more like Christ, it must begin…
Truth in the Inward Being
David prays in Psalm 51 for \”truth in the inward man\”. What does this mean?…
Tolerable Intolerance
How should tolerance truly work? In the modern world, tolerance is becoming the ultimate virtue,…
The Christians Who Will Go to Hell
Jesus warns in Matthew 7 that some people believe they are Christians, but will go…
Legalism
It has to be one of the most frequently used words in the modern church.…
God Resists the Proud
Many Christians do not understand the Law of the Tea-Bag. Hot-water does not introduce or…
Is God For Us?
A confident belief that God is for me as a believer is the foundation of…
The Bible on Race
What is the Bible’s attitude toward racism? This topic often has a lot more heat…
Satan’s Strategies
It’s important to understand some of Satan’s strategies. God, in His wisdom, has revealed to…
Soul Nourishment
When something is a necessity like eating or cleaning, we make the time. When something…
A Revival of Illumination – Part 2
Illumination is an act of grace – it is something the Holy Spirit does for…
A Revival of Illumination – Part 1
Knowledge is essential for the Christian life. But the Christians described above already have knowledge.…
Loving God
When Jesus was asked, what is the greatest commandment of all, without hesitation He replied,…
Glorifying God
What is the point of the Christian life? In fact, what is the point of…
Working Out What God is Working
One of Satan’s best strategies for defeating a Christian is to confuse them as to…
God Loves You
I am increasingly convinced that the source of most failures, the source of most sin,…
Should God Bless South Africa?—Part 2
Every time our national anthem is played, the words ‘God bless Africa’ are sung. People…
Should God Bless South Africa?—Part 1
Does simply chanting ‘God bless South Africa’ guarantee it? Perhaps it is better to ask…
Am I Saved?
It is only right and fitting that people ought to earnestly make sure that they…
Can We Date or Marry the Unsaved?
It’s probably one of the most common and nagging problems for parents, relatives and church…
Financial Wisdom From Proverbs—Part 4
Saving seems so hard these days. Nevertheless, it is commended in Proverbs. Notice that the…
Financial Wisdom From Proverbs—Part 3
Where your treasure is, their your heart will be also, said our Lord. Money is…
Financial Wisdom from Proverbs—Part 2
In this series, which we’ve called Financial Wisdom from Proverbs, we’re examining the Bible’s perspective…
Financial Wisdom From Proverbs—Part 1
Money is the currency of our belief systems. The way people act, react and respond…
What Goes Down Must Come Up
Heaven’s gravity is reversed – what goes down, must come up. The way up in…
The Superior Pleasure of Purity
The tragedy of the fall of Adam is that man chose to fill up his…
Was Judas Saved?
Was Judas saved? In the debate surrounding eternal security, Judas’ name frequently comes up. Here…
The Power of Salvation
Sadly, there are many today who claim to have prayed a salvation prayer once upon…
The Process of Salvation
What is the process of salvation? What happens? What exactly must a human do? This…
The Person of Salvation
Salvation is fundamentally about a human being reconciled to another Person – their Creator. It…
The Purpose of Salvation
Why did God ultimately choose to bring about this situation that we call ‘the good…
Love Costs
A sacrifice is noble because you give up what is precious to gain what is…
The Tragedy of the Worldly Christian
Words over time sometimes lose their effectiveness because we get used to them. We hear…
The Guilt-Trip Trap
Guilt is one of those things that comes in two forms – good guilt and…
Obstacles
Four hurdles obstruct us from truly becoming more like Christ. Romans 8:29 tells us this…
Take Off Your Mask
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches us that at the heart of true…
Returning to Your First Love
One thing absent in a ship’s compass can sink the whole ship. And in our…
Love and Truth
The books of 2 John and 3 John should really be read together. They deal…
The Spiritual Sluggard
How many of us would admit to being lazy? We generally feel insulted at the…
Doing God’s Work God’s Way
Faced with these non-politically correct statements, with a message clearly hostile to this world’s way…
What Happens to Babies That Die?
What happens to babies when they die? Or to young children? What happens to adults…
Consistently Obeying God
How do I get consistent obedience in my life? It seems if we could answer…
What is the Will of God for My Life?—Part 2
We’re looking at the will of God in this series. So many people ask the…
What is the Will of God for My Life?—Part 1
Can we know God’s will?
What Has God Got Out of Your Life?
God invests in us to receive a return. The parable in Luke 19:11-27 makes this…
Dealing With Non-Moral Issues—Part 1
Dealing with disputed or doubtful areas of Christianity means learning how to accept and live…
Dealing With Non-Moral Issues—Part 2
Non-moral issues make up a portion of our Christian lives. How should we determines how…
Contending Without Striving
We are told in Scripture to contend for the faith, but we are also told…
Itchy-Ear Syndrome
Scripture describes a phenomenon which is sadly all-too-familiar: people seeking teachers who will tell them…
Dealing With Conflict Between Christians
Conflict may be inevitable, but it need not be sinful. The incident between the tribes…
Truth in Tithing
What does the Bible teach about tithing? Are Christians responsible to give 10% of their…
Is Salvation An Event or a Process?
Is salvation an event or a process? Does conversion kick off something that progresses, or…
Is Salvation for Keep or For Keeping?—Part 2
Does “once saved, always saved” promote sin and lawlessness? Rightly defined, true salvation cannot be…
Is Salvation for Keeps or for Keeping?—Part 1
Is salvation truly eternal? Can we not lose our salvation by our own works? Scripture…
If You Want to be Fruitful
Jesus gives us the illustration of abiding to help us understand the fruitfulness of the…