What are you staking your life on?

Jared shares these five things you can count on:

1. God’s words are true.

For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
– Psalm 33:4

2. Even if you let him down, he will never return the favor.

If we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
– 2 Timothy 2:13

3. He is never late.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
– Romans 5:6

4. He is not slow.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
– 2 Peter 3:9a

5. He loves you.

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
– 1 John 4:16a

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Why should I guard my heart

Michael Hyatt, who writes mostly for leaders, offers three solid reasons why leaders (as well as all Christians) should guard their heart:

1. Your heart is extremely valuable
2. Out of  your heart flows everything else (thoughts, desires, feelings, attitudes, words)
3. Your heart is under constant attack (you and I live in a combat zone).

Read more here and be sure to guard your heart today!

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May 21: the end of the world or Camping’s false teaching

Is May 21st “Judgment Day”?  Is it going to be the end of the world?”

James White believes that May 21st is Judgment Day — “for Harold Camping, Family Radio, and for all who have followed Camping into heresy and error.”  Great article.

Albert Mohler has an excellent response to this whole debacle.  Among other points he makes, he gives three solid reasons why we shouldn’t trust Camping:

1. Christ specifically admonished his disciples not to claim such knowledge. (Acts 1:7; Matthew 24:36)
2. The Bible does not contain hidden codes that we are to find and decipher
3. Christians are indeed to be looking for Christ to return and seeking to be found faithful when Christ comes.  We are not to draw a line in history and set a date. . .

Read the rest here. 

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What do we drift toward?

“People do not drift toward holiness.

Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”

(D. A. Carson, For the Love of God, Volume 2,via Josh)

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