Clarence L. Haynes Jr.
If you live long enough, you will experience things in life that seem unfair. There may be times when you do everything right to the best of your ability, and yet something goes wrong. This can cause ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Throughout the book, Job faces adversity — first the losses, then from his wife, and then from his friends. At one point, we read this heart-wrenching utterance, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust H...
Dawn Wilson
God chose Mary for what might be called the most important job in world history—bringing the Messiah into the world. Her life would take a sharp detour from planning her marriage to preparing for the ...
Heather Riggleman
Sackcloth and ashes were an outward sign of mourning, repentance, or abasement. It was a type of cloth made of black goat’s hair that was thick, rough, and coarse material. ...
Jessica Brodie
It’s important to know that God’s plan is not for humans to live separated from Him by sin forever. He gave us temporary bodies on purpose, knowing that if we chose the true path—His Son, Jesus—we wou...
Kristi Woods
Have you ever asked, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Disaster striking or disease infiltrating, the suffering or untimely death of those we deem as undeserving, sears the heart, doesn’t it?...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Certain biblical words take on extra spiritual “weight” in the light of their object. Reverence is one such term. ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Maybe they are facing a long season of infertility or waiting on a job or relationship change, or a life-changing event looms on the horizon. Each time of suffering hurts, and when it’s extended, the ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
God used Agur to pen a chapter in the Bible. What an honor to be entrusted with inscribing words as part of the Holy Scriptures. ...
Betty Dunn
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, it leads to destruction” Proverbs 14:12. What is the “right” way to live? ...
Dawn Wilson
“Awesome” is an appropriate word to use for God, and it’s not to be used flippantly. The Psalmist rightly asks, “Who is like the LORD our God?” (Psalm 113:5). He is unequaled and unsurpassed. Anyone w...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Sometimes telling someone who is facing a trial that God is in control feels to them like platitudes. We’ve all heard it before, but deep in our hearts, do we believe it when we are suffering? Often, ...
Lori Stanley Roeleveld
“He must become greater; I must become less” is a powerful and compelling declaration made by John the Baptist, quoted in John 3:30 NIV...
Lisa Loraine Baker
We can rest in Who He is and be thankful because we are made in His image and because throughout every adversity He allows, He is changing us from one degree of glory to another or to mold us more and...
Emma Danzey
Snow is the precipitation of winter. It helps to provide water that is soaked into the ground and used towards the spring blooms. In God’s goodness, He provides for the needs of the land and people th...
Christianity.com Editorial Staff
Hell is a place of total, conscious, eternal separation from the blessings of God. If a person rejects God all throughout life, never submitting to him in repentance, then the person will enter eterni...
Jessica Brodie
For those who don’t have it, depression can be hard to understand. A mood disorder with both mental and physical impacts, depression is different from typical feelings of sadness or grief. Som...
Frank Santora
“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones” (Proverbs 14:30).I heard a joke recently about two store owners who were bitter rivals. Their stores were directly across the street ...
Jason Soroski
The Bible is very clear about the requirements for pastors and elders in a church, but there are no specific requirements for a “pastor’s wife.” I have become quite familiar with the ups-and-downs of ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Hard times are inevitable. We best suit up every day according to Ephesians 6:10-20 so we can fight whatever the world throws at us. Have a prayer arsenal, quick go-to verses, and a believing friend i...