Even after a person is born again, some transformations of the mind and heart take longer than others.

Prejudice in paradise overcome by the love of Jesus Christ

How Jesus totally changed my heart toward guys and my dating life

“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind...

Jesus said to His disciples: “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the...

““I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot...

“Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.” (Hosea 6:4c) NOTE: The names used for friends and peers in...

“From my youth I have suffered and been close to death... darkness is my closest friend” (Ps. 88:15-18). After Mack[*] broke things off,...

“...You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.” (Psalm 86:17) I didn’t think anything could hurt so much. Never in my life had I...

“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” (Eccl. 1:9) To...

"For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the...

“You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’” ~ Jesus (John 3:7) Something I didn’t realize until later in my...

“Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?” (Proverbs 20:11) NOTE: Again, names have...

“If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a [person] like myself,...

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay Is the above...

“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify...

“Ears that hear and eyes that see— the Lord has made them both.” (Proverbs 20:12) What is real and what is not? All my school years,...

Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time....

“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21) Because of my dad’s example growing up, I developed disciplines that would...

[Jesus explained,]“‘Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’ Then they understood that he was not telling them...