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The Harshest Thing You Can Ever Do to Anyone WATCH VIDEO For some of you, if I said this, you would not want to listen. But if you listen, this can change your life forever. It’s so counterintuitive because we have been sold a lie for so long. The harshest thing you can ever do to someone else is to teach them to love themselves or to encourage them to embrace themselves, to be centered on self…to pursue self-esteem. You see, self is the problem, it is not the solution. Jesus never taught …

What Did Jesus Mean, “The First Will Be Last”? First of all, He is talking to John and to James. And they had just asked Him, “What must we do to be first?” They wanted to be over everyone else and sit at His right and His left. Jesus said, “You’ve got it all backwards. In the world, those who want to be first so that they can lord over people put themselves first. But in the Kingdom of God, whoever wants to be first must be the servant of all and put themselves last.” He even said …

Fish & Richardson and First Liberty filed a trademark licensing lawsuit against the U.S. government Tuesday in Texas Eastern District Court on behalf of Shields of Strength, a 'faith-based' seller of military-themed products. The complaint arises from Shields' line of replica 'dog tags' containing Bible verses. Shields contends that, despite the company's obtaining trademark licenses for its products as requested by the federal government, the Department of Defense sent the company cease-and-des …

There’s only one way to get your cup filled. And it’s the opposite of what the world and social media tell you all day long, every day.The only way to get your cup filled up is to pour out what you already have.You have something. I don’t care how little you have, you have something.You are not responsible for filling your cup. You are responsible for pouring out what you have. God does the filling.So, this whole idea that you cannot give from an empty vessel is a lie straight from the pit of he …

This is a good question, but it’s based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what humility is. Humility is not a pushover at all. It’s the furthest thing from it.Tolerance is a pushover. Tolerance is selfishness. Our world teaches tolerance, tolerance, tolerance -- because it’s selfish.If you love someone, you will only tolerate what is best for them. If it’s not best for them, you don’t want anything to do with it. So, you encourage them to change.Pride is a pushover; pride portrays all this s …

Listen, if someone is manipulating you, they are not going to be authentic. They are not going to be transparent.If someone is authentic and transparent, they are going to have a range of emotions. If they are upset, you are going to see they are upset. If they are happy, you are going to see they’re happy.. If they are sad, you are going to see they are sad. They are the same on the inside as they are on the outside.If someone is trying to manipulate you, they are trying to make you believe one …

After I did a video on denying yourself, I got a lot of direct messages from people asking me, “Should I deny myself my dream, my goal, my desire to prosper? Is it a sin to want those things?”I think there were a lot of good-hearted people asking questions like that.I say, no, it’s not wrong to want those things and pursue them. But, if our goals and our desire is selfish in nature, and we aren’t going to let God in to give that dream the meaning He intends for it to have, I don’t think we will …

I got this question in a direct message.I would like to think I would never give up on someone. I don’t think love ever gives up on someone; but I think love will give up on a relationship, as a last resort.If someone is living a selfish life and repeatedly hurting us; and we love them, then they are also wrecking their own life – probably, far more than they’re hurting us.Now, if they are physically hurting us, then we have to leave that relationship.Otherwise, if we love them, we are going to …

I believe that one of the most effective tricks Satan plays on Christians is to convince us that our sins aren't really forgiven.Psalm 103:12 says “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”One of Satan’s biggest tools is to constantly remind us of our past failures, and he uses those to make us think that God couldn't possibly forgive us. This can make it really hard for us to simply rest in the promises of God and trust His love.1 John 1:9: “If we c …