You won’t want to miss our Focus on the Family Broadcast “The Greatest of These Is Love." We’re airing a recorded talk by World War II Dutch resistance hero Corrie ten Boom. In the early 1940s, Corrie and her family risked their lives to help 800 Jewish people escape the Nazis.
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After many years of service to Christ, Cliff’s wife developed a quickly spreading cancer. Many people joined Cliff in fervent prayer for his wife, but she failed rapidly and soon died. Through it all, however, Cliff did not break his determined gaze on Christ. Instead of allowing the tragedy to shake his faith, he allowed his deep experience of pain and suffering—and even depression and confusion—to push him even deeper ...
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God’s highest and best is achieved and accomplished in us when we choose to live a balanced life with healthy priorities. The question is: how do we achieve that in the current era of chronic busyness when our time is filled with good and necessary things?
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Without a doubt, Thomas Edison is the greatest inventor in US history. But what I admire most about Edison is how he handled failure and discouragement. In 1914, after ten years of experimenting on the storage battery without success, Edison’s finances were depleted. The only thing propping up his laboratory was film and record production. Then one night, a fire erupted in the film room. Fire departments from eight towns ...
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All Christians are called to pursue godliness—but how do we do so? In the book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, author Donald Whitney turns to 1 Timothy 4:7 for the answer: “Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.” This verse is the theme for the entire book as Whitney unpacks its meaning and helps us apply it in practical ways.
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In 2017 on New Year’s Eve in New York City, visitors to Times Square were encouraged to bring whatever they wanted out of their lives and throw it into a giant shredder. Some people shredded paper on which they had written unpleasant memories, while others shredded photographs and even their bills.
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When the psalmists saw the sun rise in the East and set in the West, they assumed the sun was going around the earth. It “rose” in the morning, traveled across the sky during the day, and “set” in the evening (Psalm 50:1; 113:3). They naturally assumed that the earth was the center of the heavenly domain. Scientists would later call this a geocentric view of our solar system (from Greek ge, meaning ...
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James 1:5 says, "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you." What a relief! God will not only give us wisdom in our moments of need, He will give it generously.
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Hope your New Year has brought a sweet newness to your spirit. Are your Christmas memories still fresh? 'I'll text your gift now' was the new thing that revealed surprises under our Christmas tree. Gift wrap still lined the floor but texting a gift that didn't arrive yet or needed to be kept secret happened more than twice. Looking into one's device with appreciation became the picture that did not ...
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When it comes to views of Scripture we live in a skeptical age. While there have always been those who questioned the authority and authenticity of God’s Word, the church itself was not home to doubters and skeptics. The staunch anti-authority trend we see among professing believers today began in the eighteenth century and the post-Reformation Enlightenment—during the ascendancy of human reason—when skeptics and critics brought the legitimacy of God’s ...
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