Self-Examination

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 […]

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

We know God is living in us when we experience his FREEDOM and realize that we do NOT have to be perfect in order to please him. That we do NOT have to “keep the Law.” That we do NOT need to become a MONK. We are free because of what Christ did for us

Early in my faith walk, I thought I knew everything about DISCIPLINE. I played football in college. I built a successful career as a corporate CEO. And I spoke about strategic discipline to marketplace companies around the world. I was disciplined. It’s no surprise that I took that discipline into everything I did—including my faith