Joel Ryan
Like many married men, I can remember my wedding day like it was yesterday.I can tell you what it felt like to see my then bride-to-be walking down the aisle in her wedding dress. I can tell you about...
Ruth Clemence
Growing up, the Bible was in my bedroom but seldom opened. I believed in Jesus and cannot remember a time I felt as if God didn’t exist. God just was. However, I did not follow Him as Lord and Savior ...
Jenna Brooke Carlson
It’s often thought that Ruth did the right thing, while Orpah failed. It’s easy to criticize Orpah for perceived unfaithfulness, but when we take a closer look at the whole story in context, it’s easi...
Mary Carver
Paul went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but his father was a Greek. (Acts 16:1) Timothy was Paul’s protég...
Pamela Palmer
This particular Psalm is one of praise and worship as it reflects on and tells of the goodness of the Lord. In his praise and adoration to God, David wrote that he would not forget the benefits of God...
Britt Mooney
Our modern culture has minimized the idea that extramarital sex is a problem. Yet God finds it so serious he discussed the problems with “committing adultery” in the seventh commandment....
We know her for her sorrow. She longed for a son, but couldn’t have children. We know her for her faithfulness. She never gave up hope that God would hear her prayer. We also know her for her sacrific...
Alyssa Roat
For more than 200 years, congregations have been singing these familiar words: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent Word! “How Firm a Fou...
Pamela Palmer
When believers honor God with their wealth by giving a percentage of it back to God, there is great reward and blessing that comes as a result of their faithfulness. God blesses His children in many w...
Heather Adams
“Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7).Many mentions of prophets are made in the Bible. In fact, a section of the Old Testament is ...
Linda Gilden
Perhaps you’ve never thought of yourself as bearing fruit. Biblical contemporaries grew their own foods, tended orchards, and depended on their crops for their livelihood. Thus, we have many biblical ...
Britt Mooney
What makes the story of Micaiah speaking to King Ahab may be one of the strangest stories about prophets in the Old Testament. What makes it so striking?...
Brad Simon
Zephaniah’s prophecy would play a pivotal role in the spiritual awakening that swept across the land. As the nation turned back to God in repentance, revival swept across the land. Hearts and minds we...
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Suffering will indeed come, but God can give us grace and power to overcome every trial and to fulfill our purpose and mission in His kingdom. In his second epistle to Timothy, the Apostle Paul shares...
Heather Adams
When Israel was still a relatively young nation, the people began to be discontent with their lack of a human leader. Part of that came from envy of other nations, but there was also a belief that hav...
Frank Santora
“But since you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you — see that you also excel in this grace of giving” (2 Corinthians...
Sheila Alewine
John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”As a teenager growing up in a very conservative, independent, Baptist church, I was often challenged to make...
Jordan Standridge
We are to consider the men and women of Hebrews 11 and think upon their faithfulness and faith in order to be propelled to run our race better. ...
Jessica Van Roekel
God calls us to pray for leaders because he knows that prayer moves hearts towards him and softens our hearts towards others. In government, schools, home, the workplace, and more, leaders bear loads ...
Lancelot Tucker
Polycarp was one of the first second-generation Christians to be martyred, and a foundational figure in the early church. Here is what we know about his life and how it ended....