The last two Words for the Week for 2025 are words for 2026. After the new year, these will return to the study of the books of Daniel and Revelation.

       Do not despair at the low spiritual state of the body of Christ as we begin this new year. This is the condition we find God’s people in virtually every time in Scripture and in history before a great move of God breaks out, and this is the case now. We may be in the driest of times, but a great spark is going...

       We are called to live as dead to this world, and a dead person cannot fear. Fear is the ultimate yoke of bondage, so a person who is dead to this world is therefore the freest of all. One reason we are called to die daily is to daily walk free.

       God’s truth sets us free, so our goal must be to live by His truth. If we have the holy and pure fear of the Lord, we will not fear anything else on this earth. In these times of increasing discord and chaos,...

       All of the prophecies about the end of this age point to this being the time of the greatest troubles the world has ever had. Sound encouraging? It is to true disciples. True disciples are not encouraged or discouraged by what’s happening in this world. This is when they will shine like the stars of heaven. What I am sharing in these next two Words for the Week is how we can go through these times and make them our best times.

       There’s a simple answer to this: be a martyr every day. Martyrs...

       History is a witness that if a truth gets institutionalized, it will become politicized and corrupted. This includes scientific truth or any other truth. Once it gets institutionalized, it can be subjected to the worst of fallen human nature. Those who stand for the purity of the truth and against its corruption will be seen as enemies of the institution and be persecuted by it.

       An example of this is how the movement created by the Maccabees to defend the faith of the Jews from being corrupted by the Greeks was institutionalized and became...

“Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood. So then, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come” (Hebrews 13:12-14).

       Jesus lived and ministered outside the camp. He never became a part of the camp, or establishment—and neither did His disciples for the first few generations. When Christianity became an institution, it was so quickly corrupted that many of its doctrines were so changed that...