The evening before Thanksgiving, my wife, Kellie, and I heard our water sensor trigger an alarm in the basement. I assumed the furnace humidifier had overflowed. As our children headed to bed, I went downstairs to check.
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If the thought of reading the Bible overwhelms you, you’re not alone. Even those who consider themselves to be mature in their faith can struggle, at times, with reading the Bible regularly. Perhaps you’re new to reading the Bible and don’t know where to start. Or, maybe you’ve stopped reading the Bible over the last few years and would like to start reading it again. No matter where you’re at ...
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I’m often asked to explain what it means to be a disciple. It’s also a very common search phrase online, which tells me that many others are curious, too.
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God did not leave us here to isolate ourselves from this darkening culture or to identify with the culture. He left us here to influence the culture.
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Men are often masters of delegation. Give them a task, and they can quickly assign just the right person to do it. A simple phone call? Let the office assistant make the connection. Household chore? One of the kids can get it done.
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Do you ever feel like you’re all alone and no one cares about you? I want you to know something: you’re not alone. God cares about you. God loves you, and you don’t have to ever be lonely again because Jesus Christ can come and live inside of your heart and be your Savior and your Lord.
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The Bible was written in three languages over a span of fifteen hundred years by more than forty humanauthors from all walks of life. Hailing from the Middle East, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Southern Europe,these men were kings, farmers, historians, fishermen, prophets, apostles, free men, and slaves. For all theirdifferences, they shared a distinctive connection: The Spirit of God guided them so that the words theyrecorded were nothing less than ...
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Typically, when we hear the word sin, our minds rush to thoughts of transgressions that to us seem huge: murder, adultery, stealing, homosexuality, and more. While some of these sins do have far-reaching consequences, none of them put people beyond the reach of God. No one is beyond His ability to forgive and restore.
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Hebrews 10:25 instructs us not to “neglect” meeting together. This does not mean we must meet with other believers for a formal church service on a Sunday morning, but we are designed to live in community with trusted Christian friends. We gather for the purpose of receiving encouragement in the truth of the Gospel.
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How are you doing serving in the mission field under your own roof? For those of us with children, we have a solemn biblical responsibility to evangelize them—“to train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6).
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