Lisa Loraine Baker
Though death is genuine, Christ, by His death and resurrection, claimed victory over it. We who love and cherish Him need have no fear of those who kill the body (Matthew 10:28). In that very moment o...
Lisa Loraine Baker
As human beings created in the image of God, our souls were given by God when He breathed life into the first man — Adam. No breath of God, no life....
Kristi Walker
Martin Luther wrote this hymn as a declaration of his faith! Having faced trials, excommunication, sickness, depression, spiritual warfare, and death, he knew that God, his Mighty Fortress, would be h...
Stephen Baker
Along with their father and other brothers, Nadab and Abihu underwent a meticulous seven-day cleansing/consecration ceremony. This assured they might be presented as holy before the Lord and fit for s...
Ruth Clemence
How do we get to know someone? By spending time with them. Listening to them. Sharing life together. When we trust in Jesus, He gives us His Spirit to live within us (1 John 4:13). We become His frien...
Lynette Kittle
It’s the anniversary again of 9/11. A day marked by shock, terror, sorrow, and tremendous loss, where we remember the devastating terrorist attacks against America that deeply impacted our nat...
Rylie Fine
When we see or say that God is our refuge, it means that God is where we flee to when trouble comes. Many of us have a tendency to run anywhere but to God when things get hard. ...
Dawn Wilson
Since Christ's work on the sinner’s behalf was the only work necessary for salvation, biblical Christianity is not a works-based approach to salvation. It’s all God. But Peter suggests that our salvat...
Jennifer Slattery
Valentine's Day can be discouraging, even painful, for so many people and for a variety of reasons. For those of you who feel as if every idealized jewelry commercial pokes at an open wound, may your ...
Greg Grandchamp
In the case of Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego, they were thrown into the flames – yet, even if they were to die horrible, painful deaths, they refused to deny their God and worship an idol. Oh, that w...
Greg Grandchamp
Personally, I can’t even imagine Jesus praying for me. And yet we are told multiple times in Scripture that He does. This isn’t talked about or preached about a great deal anymore, but Jesus intercede...
Jean Wilund
The doctrine of the perseverance of the saints affirms that God protects and preserves Christians—His saints (“holy ones”)—for eternity and causes their faith to persevere to the end....
Denise Kohlmeyer
Many of us—myself included—have believed or been taught that God weighs every sin equally upon his divine scale of justice. It may surprise you, then, as it did me, that that is not the case at all....
Ruth Clemence
Jesus is in heaven with the Father. Yet we are told in Colossians 3:3 that our life is “hidden with Christ in God.” How can our life be hidden with Jesus in heaven, whilst we carry on living here on t...
Britt Mooney
Everything dies, passes away, perishes. But what does perish mean in the Bible?...
Stephen Baker
We have already discussed the picture of the resurrection in Joseph’s life and considered its significance, as it pointed to the One Who would personally conquer sin and death. From there, the discuss...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Reality has a fixed nature which is true and unaffected by a person’s beliefs, perceptions or experiences. We can say reality has an objective nature because God created the heavens and the earth...
Sheila Alewine
I am so grateful that my earthly father had trusted the words of our Heavenly Father. He had beheld the Son and believed, and now, all the promises God made have come to their full experience for him....