by Bill Elliff
October 21, 2024
What is the size of your enemy? That’s not the right question. What is the depth of your weakness? Still not the right question. What is the size of your God, and what is the size of your faith?
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by Bill Elliff
August 05, 2024
Everyone suffers. Sometimes, we bring it upon ourselves, but other times, it comes to us from unavoidable sources. Suffering is anything that is hard, painful, enduring, and challenging to handle.
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by Bill Elliff
June 11, 2024
That's the big question, isn't it? Like no other time in recent history, those of us who know the Lord are watching the rapid disintegration of our society. So, what do we do?
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by Bill Elliff
May 23, 2024
David was in a cave, hiding from King Saul, when he wrote Psalm 142. It was a terrible spot, humanly speaking. And here was David's natural assessment.
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by Bill Elliff
May 15, 2024
Life is a mixture of the hard and the easy, the bad and the good. If you follow Christ, particularly if you live to serve Christ, this seems even to be magnified. If we are not careful on the hard days, we forget what this is all about.
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by Bill Elliff
January 03, 2024
All of us face enemies in life. The immediate response if an enemy is strong enough and the siege long enough is to lose all hope. If we listen to the prognosticators, they all tell us it’s useless. And even if we are trusting in God, they will proclaim that trusting in Him is fine, but it will not deliver us.
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by Bill Elliff
November 07, 2023
Are you in a time of trial? It has a beginning, and it will have an end. But don’t forget the bookends of blessings that God has given … and give Him praise. God knows what He’s about.
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by Bill Elliff
October 26, 2023
If we embrace the wrong theology (“suffering is always caused by our sin or a lack of faith"), it leads to all kinds of false conclusions.
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by Bill Elliff
October 25, 2023
It's hard to read the book of Job. Hard to understand God allowing Satan a temporary injunction to afflict this godly man so terribly. But God is proving something in this experience. He is answering questions that we all must have answered and giving us the ultimate hope.
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by Bill Elliff
June 27, 2023
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by Bill Elliff
May 31, 2023
We all are interested in finding the highest and best use of our lives. Books are written, and seminars attended to try to learn our niche—what we can do to maximize our lives.
But there is only One who understands your true destiny. And you might be surprised at His evaluation. Tragically, many never encounter nor consult Him and miss their Divinely-ordained purpose.
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by Bill Elliff
November 03, 2022
There’s nothing wrong with a “troubled soul” for Jesus had one. “Now my soul has become troubled,” He said to His disciples as He faced the final days of His life on earth and the impending cross (John 12:27). But an unsettled heart needs resolution and there is only one remedy.
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