Another great question from our global online tribe dropped into my email last night. A young woman asked me this: “Mark, how can I PRAY IN FAITH when I am unsure if my request in is God’s will?    My first point was that “faith in prayer” has nothing to do with OUR feelings over whether the request is or is not in God’s will. Our “faith in prayer” is having faith in GOD.    If...

Questions from the ministry’s online tribe continue to pour in from around the world. A powerful theme has emerged recently around PRAYER in the form of this question: “How Do I Pray?” Please don’t dismiss this as a “simple question.” The concept may be easily understood, but DOING IT is far from simple, even for spiritually-mature Christians.    Let’s start with the myriad reasons why God...

Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to be spiritually consistent? If you have, in one sense, that’s a good thing because it demonstrates that you are in touch with God’s call for us to seek him every day and grow spiritually.    That growth is important to God because spiritual maturity is BEING LIKE CHRIST!    Ok…fair enough. That is easy to understand...

The questions from Love God Fear Nothing’s global online family keep pouring in. This one arrived early this morning: “Hey, Mark…do I have to read the Bible to be a Christian?” It took about six seconds for my mind to race toward the much broader subject of Bible illiteracy which is at epidemic proportions in the U.S. and around the world.    We have become Biblically illiterate Christians...

The questions from Love God Fear Nothing’s global online family keep coming my way. This one arrived late last night: “How Can I Become A Christian?” I jumped right in by boldly declaring: God loves you and has a plan for your life. But there’s a problem–man is sinful. The result of that sin is separation from God that results in spiritual death.    That sets us the FIRST STEP in...

It is a blessing to see God at work in so many lives around the world through the comments and questions that flow into my ministry. This morning was no exception when an online follower asked about “the role Jesus had in our salvation.” Questions like this one on the “SPIRITUAL BASICS” remind us to keep certain truths accessible. To keep them as a north star in our walk with Christ. And to keep...

One of my online followers just asked me a compelling question about FORGIVENESS. Her focus was on forgiveness being a mandatory, MUST DO ACT in God’s eyes, not just something we should “TRY TO DO.” I quickly determined that she was summoning her grudge over and over again. In fact, she had developed a deep dependence on it. She was addicted to her “I’ll never forgive” pain.    Before responding...

I felt UNWORTHY as a child of God earlier in my life. Those feelings increased in their intensity with each new sin or bad thought that crossed the cinema of my mind. I was (and still am) a SINNER. This negative cycle created and reinforced a damaging self-perception that I could never live a Christ-like life. Thank God it was a LIE!    Thinking we are no good for God leads us to start thinking...

One of my online followers tossed me this complicated question yesterday… “Hey Mark, how am I sure about my salvation and place in heaven beyond this life and through eternity?”    Just asking the question was spiritually deflating for him. So I jumped in fast by stressing to him that his question is VERY POSITIVE. It shows that his heart is searching for the spiritual confidence God...

I was caught off guard yesterday when a man startled me with this question: “Hey, Mark…why do Christians emphasize Jesus so much? I don’t get it. I believe in God. I just don’t understand the Jesus part.” Before he even finished the question, my mind landed on this:    “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6    So that’s...