Britt Mooney

Feeling overwhelmed by life's relentless challenges? Isaiah 52 provides divine peace and assurance, promising victory amidst even the most daunting storms. This chapter reveals God's enduring "shalom" to anchor your spirit, helping you persevere with unwavering faith and find triumph in every trial.

Reading about the kings of Israel and Judah proves fascinating. Most of us know the big names—Saul, David, Solomon—but these nations full of God’s people struggled through generations of both good and corrupt leaders, leading to sufficient evidence supporting the need for a righteous king, the Messiah. 

King Uzziah has an interesting story. Many Christians may know his name from the famous Isaiah passage, “in the year King Uzziah died,” in Isaiah 6:1, which begins the famous chapter in which the prophet has an astounding encounter with God and becomes further commissioned. Isaiah 6 implies that the prophet seeks God in the Temple to mourn.

Why would Isaiah weep over King Uzziah? Looking at Uzziah’s life, we see a complicated character with plenty of important lessons for us today.

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Uncover the transformative truth that you are chosen by God, precious in His sight, even when the world overlooks you. This powerful reflection on ancient scripture reveals how to embrace your divine purpose and live as a cornerstone of faith and service.

John 12 unveils critical moments in Jesus' final days, from Mary's anointing and the triumphant entry into Jerusalem to his profound teachings on sacrifice, the light of truth, and impending glorification. Explore this powerful chapter to understand the call to unwavering faith and find guidance for navigating life's most uncertain paths by following the Light.

People express passion about all kinds of things. 

As a somewhat humorous example, there is a meme that one shows a picture of a motorcycle and says something like, “If you want to keep your kids off drugs, get them into motorcycles. They won’t have money for anything else.” 

You can find a passionate Facebook group about any topic, from American Girl dolls to 80s sitcoms. Of course, the social media algorithms predict our zeal for important causes, too, whether religious, political, or social. 

God acts with intention and passion. Being made in his image, we were designed to possess the same. Unfortunately, we often aim our passions and desires at the wrong things. Zeal for the wrong things becomes dangerous, even deadly. 

Looking at the word “zealous” in the Bible, we realize not only how God created us for the right kind of zeal, but that he is the proper object of our passions.

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We’ve all had at least one. That person who comes to your Bible study (or home group or Sunday School class) who annoys us. You’re thinking of at least one now. 

Their annoyance could be due to several factors. Perhaps they have trouble in social situations. They’re too blunt, or they have bad hygiene, or their jokes aren’t funny. Sometimes the problem is us, to be honest. Others may not be bothered, but this person’s personality rubs us the wrong way. 

Christianity draws the broken, the marginalized, and the desperate. A message of hope and love and peace will do that for those who have been rejected by the world. And responding to the Good News brings with it an amazing community, a belonging many have never experienced, even in their own families. While this is God’s way, the broken and desperate can also be difficult for different reasons. 

At the same time, Christianity contains the religious, the “scribes and Pharisees” of the world who quickly judge and dismiss others. People who seem far from love. 

Thankfully, we have a Father who invited both sons to the party — both the prodigal from far away and the hard-hearted son working in the field. So should we. 

Here are seven ways to pray for the annoying person in your Bible study.

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The creation story in Genesis doesn't exactly include a day that God created Satan and all his demons. But God is the Creator of all things. How then are Christians to understand where Satan came from? Did God, who is good, create evil? Let's open our Bibles together and see what the Word says.

Daniel contains some spectacular stories and mind-bending prophecies. But before cracking into this rich book, it's important to know a bit of context. May these seven facts help set the groundwork for your study of the powerful Book of Daniel.

Around three thousand years ago, King David penned a song to worship his God. While David wrote several songs, many of which we have in the Bible, Psalm 23 has endured as one of the most popular and memorized psalms. Full of imagery and poetic language, this concise lyric holds deep and profound truths which still inspire millions today. 

Many Christians have found praying the scriptures an amazing and powerful discipline. Especially since we enter his gates with thanksgiving and courts with praise (Psalm 100:4), the psalms provide us with God-breathed truths to use as we intercede before the Lord on his throne through Christ, our High Priest. Psalm 23 gives us important themes to use in our prayers. 

Here are 7 ways to pray Psalm 23 into our lives.

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The first step for change is admitting you need help. 

Many people reject asking for help. This might happen for several different reasons—pride, a family culture, being hurt in the past, and more. But everyone needs help at some point.

However, when dealing with God, the Bible continually teaches how we have no ability to change anything that matters on our own. Only God has the power to transform a situation, a person, a life, even an eternal future. In addition, we have forces arrayed against us. Evil spirits, a corrupt world, and our own self-absorption. We require God’s constant help against these things. 

The Father has given us one powerful action and discipline to participate in his power to change: prayer. In his love, asking for God’s help shows courage, wisdom, and strength, not weakness. It reveals that we understand where our help really does come from. And he cares for us abundantly, working for our good. 

Prayer is active, not passive. We give our lives to God and receive his guidance and help through intimate conversation and revelation. When we find ourselves in difficult situations, God desires for us to come to him and ask for his help. 

Here are 7 prayers for situations where we say, “God, please help me.”

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Discover profound insights into divine compassion and forgiveness, exploring how God's boundless mercy transcends our human failings and desires for retribution. Uncover the transformative power of embracing grace over deservedness, and learn how this perspective can redefine your relationships and personal growth.

In modern Western culture, we haven’t seen many people delivered from demons. Some missionaries travel to other nations and encounter evil spirits and cast out demons, but it's rare to see this in places like America. 

Several reasons exist for this rarity, from general unbelief to over-reliance on intellectualism and academia. However, due to this rarity and the reasons for it, it’s difficult to relate to the clear expression in the Gospel about the Christian call to deliver people from demonic control. 

Instead of explaining it away, perhaps we should examine a few key scriptures dealing with the issue to renew our minds and grow in our faith. 

So, here are seven important verses about casting out demons.

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Life can feel overwhelming, noisy, and nonstop. Between work, family, responsibilities, church commitments, volunteering, giving, serving, and trying to be there for everyone else, it’s easy to feel spiritually exhausted. We want to keep pouring into others, but eventually, we realize the truth: we can’t pour from an empty cup.

Battle Burnout with the Bible: A Faith-Filled Resource for Spiritual Fatigue is designed to help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with God when your soul feels tired. This resource reminds you that burnout is not a sign of weak faith. Even faithful people in Scripture experienced exhaustion and moments where they felt like giving up.

Inside this PDF, you’ll discover biblical encouragement for embracing God’s call when burnout hits, lessons from Bible characters who struggled with weariness, and practical ways to stay spiritually fed when you feel emotionally empty. You’ll also find a Bible reading plan for seasons of spiritual tiredness, reflection questions to help you process what’s really going on in your heart, and a simple 5-day prayer journal for the days when you feel too worn out to even know what to say to God.

This resource is here to help you rest without guilt, pray without pressure, and remember that God meets you with grace in your exhaustion. Whether you’re burned out from serving, overwhelmed by life, or simply feeling spiritually dry, these pages will guide you back to the One who restores your soul.

⬇️ Download this PDF today and bookmark it for the days when burnout hits because at some point, it happens to all of us, and we all need a faithful reminder that God’s strength is still available when ours runs out.

We find it difficult to believe miracles. First, we live in a world of brokenness and corruption. Our norm includes seeing pain, tragedy, betrayal, and more happening to us and others. Second, the modern culture has adopted a pseudo-scientific perspective, in part communicating the ignorance of believing in supernatural events. They declare everything has a scientific explanation, so the scientific community confidently teaches an absence of such miraculous events. 

So when we encounter a miracle, even in our day and age, we’ve been conditioned to dismiss or explain it away. And yet, if we explore and ask around, we find more miracles than we think. 

The New Testament clearly expects a life of faith to include the miraculous. They were taught this by Jesus himself. Christ regularly performed miracles. Why? To begin with, he continued the pattern from the Old Testament.

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