Finishing strong is hard to do. Many in the Bible failed to finish strong. And there’s a reason that the gym is full the first week in January and much emptier two or three weeks later. It’s easy to start but hard to finish. It does not happen naturally. We have to be aware of temptations and pitfalls and not lose sight of our goals.
We have to choose to be intentional. We all need encouragement to keep on going and not give up. We explore 22 passages of Scripture that offer that encouragement.
Jesus’ sermon in Luke 6 is sometimes called the Sermon on the Plain. The content of the Sermon on the Plain (or the Sermon...
The Parable of the Two Sons (Matthew 21:28–32), delivered to the chief priests and elders during Jesus’ final week in the Temple, is a...
In 1 Peter 2:9, the apostle tells us that Christians are “peculiar people.” In saying this, Peter is not saying that Christians are odd...
