Freedom

Freedom from our Debts

Debt, Fear, Freedom, Sin

Financial debt is something with which many families struggle. The averageAmerican household carries thousands of dollars in debt. Freedom from debt is away to…

The Key to a Union with God

Freedom, Security, Trouble, union

All of us have had the experience of trying to use the wrong key to open a lock.You might use the keys on your…

When Rules Guide Your Life

Freedom, Old Testament Law, Sacrifice

Hitting the open road can be fun, but determining where to go might be tough when you are free to go wherever you please….

Childlike Freedom in Christ

Freedom, Freedom in Christ, Religious Freedom

Just as a child runs through a field freely, with utter abandon, unfazed by any potential threat, unbound from all safety straps of the…

Obedience Leads To Freedom

Freedom, Lord of All, Never Alone, Obedience

In the book Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Taylor is famously quoted as having said, “Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord…

Set Free

Calling, Forgiveness, Freedom, Guilt, Jesus' Healing, Set Free, Sharing the Gospel, Sin

Prison is a place a lot of us may feel reluctant to go. But in prison there are many people yearning to be set…

Freedom From Condemnation

Condemnation, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gospel, Grace, Kindness, Second Chances, Sin

An illustration of our freedom from condemnation can be seen in the novel Do We Not Bleed? In that novel, the character Jon Mote…

“What Are You Going to do with Freedom?”

Building, Freedom, God's Promises, Promise

“What in the hell are you gonna do with freedom?” This is what the racist character Dan Scott asks the slave and Revolutionary War…

Freedom In Surrender

Freedom, Grace, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Life, Surrender, Weakness

We can learn an important lesson about the spiritual life through the Chinese Finger Trap. It is constructed simply of woven paper, but when…

Christian Freedom, Following Jesus, Freedom, Relationship with Christ

However, freedom for a Christian does not mean the absence of rules or laws to live by. Christian “rules” for living are summed up in…

Les Miserables

Freedom, God's Covenant, God's Saving Grace, Grace, Salvation, Sin

In this video clip from Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is shown incredible grace that not only frees him from the penalty of his sin…

It’s Never Too Late

Family, Freedom, Parenting, Salavtion

In an interview with Jim Daly, he comments on his experience growing up in a dysfunctional family and how it has influenced his ministry…

Filled With The Spirit

Freedom, Holy Spirit, Quenching The Spirit, Spirit

“Dr. Handley Moule, the great Anglican bishop of a past generation, used to say: ‘The difference between someone who is quenching the Spirit and…

Freedom Redefined

Constraints, Disciplines, Freedom

Tim Keller writes in The Reason for God, “Freedom cannot be defined in strictly negative terms, as the absence of confinement and constraint. In fact, in…

Freedom In Love

Freedom, Love, Priorities, Treasure

Keller writes, “What is the environment that liberates us if we confine ourselves to it, like water liberates the fish? Love. Love is the most…

Trapped

Freedom, Possessions, Surrender, Treasure

So often our possessions possess us. In the novel Where the Red Fern Grows, a grandfather builds a raccoon trap for his grandson. He…

Law & Poetry

Creation, Freedom, God's Plan, God's Will, Worldview

In the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, the angel Mrs. Whatsit is talking to the character Calvin about God’s laws for creation: “In…

Mine Shaft of Sin

2 Corinthians 3:17, Acts 13:38-39, Colossians 1:21-23, Fear, Freedom, Galatians 5:1, Glorify God, Guilt, John 8:36, Rescue, Romans 6:22, Romans 8:1-4, Salvation, Sin

God repeatedly uses his people not to glorify themselves or to give some advantage to others, but to glorify God. “God has given us…

Dedication

1 John 3:13, 1 Peter 5:8, Acts 14:22, Acts 4:27-29, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Conviction, Dedication, Freedom, Imprisonment, Jail, John 15:18, Persecution, Protest, Suffering

When Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned in Birmingham for non-violent protests, he wrote the famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail” in reply to southern…

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

2 Peter 3:14-18, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Accountability, Acts 20:28-30, Discernment, Ezekiel 13:9, False Preaching, False Teachers, Freedom, Government, Matthew 24:24, Miracle-Workers, Quick Fix, Vigilance, Vulnerability

There have been false miracles before Jesus’s time on earth and especially after his ascension. Even churches that begin faithful to the gospel can…