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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Culture Clash

Nicholas Sowell — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:59:43 +0000

Before communication and connection exploded with the Internet and social media, most groups of people used to be more monocultural, where their beliefs and values were far more similar within their families, neighborhoods, and communities. Boy have times changed! What once seemed like a large world just several decades ago, now feels like the smallest in human history. Now we daily navigate…

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To Be A Living Sacrifice

Katie Feindel — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:49:57 +0000

It says in 1 Peter 2:4-5 (ESV), “As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” What does it mean to be a “living stone rejected by men” and what does it mean to “offer spiritual…

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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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Running By Example

Tim VanDeWalker — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:21:30 +0000

The day Instagram found out I was a Christian was a very strange day for me. My feed suddenly went from posts of computer repairs, Star Trek facts, and memes to a mix of all those things interposed with what I can only call the Christian side of Instagram. It wasn’t uncommon to find myself staring at a post of Mr. Spock looking to the side at another post of Jesus on the Cross.

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Authentically You

Cheryl Weber — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:16:40 +0000

Do you know what it means to be authentically you, to live in a way that’s aligned with God’s purposes and the unique gifts and talents he’s given you? If you don’t, you’re not alone. People from all walks of life struggle to be true to themselves especially when they face real or perceived expectations. The pressure to bend your values and actions to please others is pervasive today.

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Music Christians Make

Christopher L. Scott — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:41:51 +0000

While living in California, my wife and I enjoyed attending the concert of my cousin Rachel who was a classical musical director at a church in Sacramento. On Christmas we sat in the audience of several hundred people and eagerly anticipated the evening. The musicians came out first and each sat in a designated seat with an instrument in hand and a musical score on a stand in front of them.

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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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