Exalting God, Edifying Believers, Evangelizing the Lost

Deal with Your Pride

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/11/20 Read 1 Corinthians 10:1-10. Sin comes in many shapes and sizes, but deep down, every sin sprouts from the same seed: pride. Beneath every moral failure is a desire for me, my, mine. No one is immune from this brokenness. Even people who have...
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Attacks on Integrity

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/10/20 Goodness grows out of righteous integrity. The person who manifests God’s goodness thinks good thoughts, speaks good words, and performs good deeds. What the person thinks lines up with what he speaks, and what he speaks lines up with...
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Discontentment and Covetousness

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/09/20 Are you content with how your life has turned out? Are you happy with the career path, spouse, or home you have chosen? Are you enjoying this stage of your life for the blessings you have, or do you compare yourself to others and succumb to...
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Preparing the Soil

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/08/20 In Middle Eastern farming, there is a pathway between two fields. It is the boundary. It is the place where hard-packed earth is found. It is the strip in the field where the soil is not prepared for receiving the seed. The parable of the sower...
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Freedom from Performance

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/07/20 All people yearn to belong and to be known. In the quest for relationship and acceptance, people often seek to please, but who we are pleasing has eternal consequences. Let’s look at some different kinds of “pleasers.” The...
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