Legalistic systems are incredibly prevalent in the church, to the point where many of us do not even know what legalism is, and we often fail to recognize it in our own lives. Legalism is to follow the letter of the law but to be devoid of the Spirit of God. Before you write this article off as not applying to you, consider that the Spirit of God is inviting His church at large to weigh the reality of our dedication to traditions of man. There is a thin line between following those before us...

The Israelites complained a lot and we often reference it as “their issue”, but their example is our warning. Complaining is something that is normalized in our culture. It’s essentially human nature to complain. It has become embedded in our daily routines that we do not even see how we’ve entered into sin, how we’ve grieved the Lord with our dissatisfaction of the gift of life HE has given us. Let’s take a magnifying glass to the example of the Isrealites, for our own sake, especially in...

Over the past seven weeks, not by choice, I’ve been getting some remodeling done in the basement. The water heater broke and it...