New Identity Magazine

How You See Yourself Is How the Enemy Sees You

Joshua Parcha — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:38:57 +0000

I once heard a pastor say, “How you see yourself is how the enemy sees you.” I thought this quote was not only true and powerful, but also important to understand for two main reasons. The first reason is this: The enemy sees you as you see yourself. If you see yourself as defeated, depressed, anxious, and overcome, the enemy will certainly see you in the same way. He “walks about like a…

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Crucial Steps To Following Jesus

Christopher L. Scott — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:08:08 +0000

If a random person asked you, “Would you like to follow me?” What would be your response? Most of us would respond, “No.” Our culture has trained us to think people should follow us, not that we should follow others. Most of us are excited to lead others. Yet few of us get excited to follow someone else. But this shouldn’t surprise us. In the age of social media we don’t ask…

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In Step With The Spirit

Christopher L. Scott — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:31:03 +0000

“ Grant me chastity . . . but not yet! ” A non-Christian man named Augustine uttered those words in the fourth century. He wrote in his book, Confessions, that God “set me face to face with myself, so that I might behold how foul I was, and how crooked.” Augustine was a wild man. He enjoyed many sins of life before dedicating his life to Christ. Augustine’s mother was a Christ…

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In Defense of Leviticus

Jeffery Porter — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:32:13 +0000

I wonder how many people have tried to read through the Bible cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, only to be thwarted by Leviticus. It happened to me. When I was in high school my senior pastor mentioned that he read three chapters of the Bible every day, which meant that he made it chronologically through the Bible every year. It sounded easy enough. So I gave it a try.

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How To Change Your Mind

Scott Limkeman — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:33:03 +0000

Five years ago, I believed that only people of a certain level of maturity ought to be baptized; only those who identified as Christians and were able to clear a minimum threshold of biblical knowledge, sincerity, and a capacity to articulate those things. Last summer, we baptized our one-year-old daughter, who couldn’t clear the minimum threshold of a complete sentence! What led to that shift?

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Waiting In The Wilderness

Chitara Ellis — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:32:56 +0000

Everyone has experienced a “wilderness season” before, perhaps more than once. A wilderness season is when you feel stuck or lost in a difficult situation, and your only options are to endure patiently and wait with the expectation that the situation will eventually pass or be resolved. For some people, this period may last a few days, for others it may last years—or for so long that it feels like…

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Be Anxious For Nothing

T.J. Woodard — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:33:49 +0000

I am no expert in the field of mental health, but it seems that anxiety is crippling more and more people than ever before. Upwards of 40 million American adults are dealing with anxiety disorders. Some have found relief through the help of doctors and modern medicine. Even with this help, it is a constant struggle for many. Beyond those dealing with various anxiety disorders…

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God The Gardener

Delbert Teachout — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:50:36 +0000

In John 15:1 Jesus says that God is the gardener and he prunes every branch that does not produce fruit. A person stuck in his or her ways of sin is like a prickly shrub growing a lot of branches with no fruit. These branches must be removed so good fruit can grow. In the same way as a bush is unable to prune itself, a person who is living in sin is unable to remove all the unfruitful branches in…

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Being Uncomfortable With Comfort

Ramon Mayo — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:26:00 +0000

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”-C.S. Lewis In our mother’s womb we are shielded from the world’s ugliness and pain. Then we are suddenly thrust out into the world and from there on out we say goodbye to comfort. We say goodbye to…

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Building A Better Me

Chelsea Swecker — Mon, 18 May 2020 19:52:42 +0000

I think I’ll jump in right where the story gets good. I have many chapters in my life that influenced who I am now, just like all of you. We have all been children before and on the same journey of figuring out what we believe about ourselves. At an early age, we decide if we are inherently good or inherently bad based upon our life experiences. My life experiences as a darling little girl taught…

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