Jessica Brodie
It can be incredibly painful when someone we love decides to leave Christianity. According to the Pew Research Center, while more than 85 percent of American adults were raised in the Christian faith,...
Blair Parke
Challenges with families are nothing new. They can lead to awkward holiday dinners, spats over juvenile things, and maybe even being completely estranged from one another. But God didn’t bring family ...
Alan Knox
According to Paul, every member of the body is important, and every gift is important. There are no unimportant parts of the body of Christ....
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 ...
Liz Kanoy
With so much political and religious turmoil in our world today, it is important for Christians to be educated about other world religions. Islam, in particular, is the world's fastest growing religi...
Ben Reichert
The Athanasian Creed gives us a picture not just of what the Trinity is and why it matters, but also a picture of what worried the early church at the time it was written....
Bethany Verrett
The Bible is full of poems, parables, and prophecy as part of a larger story about God’s plan for humanity. Over the course of thousands of years recorded in the Word, different writers and prophets c...
Lisa Loraine Baker
In the U.S. we rarely kiss someone other than a family member or a boyfriend/girlfriend. Instead, when greeting acquaintances or when introduced to a new person, we usually shake hands or bump fists.&...
J. Warner Wallace
Last Saturday, a single ticketholder won the Pennsylvania Powerball jackpot valued at 456.7 million dollars, becoming an instant millionaire like few others in the history of state lotteries. Are yo...
Pamela Palmer
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul referred to the church as the body of Christ. He used this metaphor to relay significant truths about the church and to help believers better understand the valu...
Blair Parke
What do we do in situations where helping a person could actually encourage their problem? How do we share one another’s burdens without it becoming a strain on our finances, emotions, and/or physical...
Joel Ryan
In the first century, the Zealots were a notorious sect of Jewish patriots who sought to overthrow the Roman occupation of Palestine through violence, terror, and political intimidation, often resorti...
Melissa Henderson
Reading or hearing the words of Scripture from the book of Luke can remind us of the deep love God has for His creations. The words 'Physician, heal yourself ‘(from Luke 4:23), may bring memories of o...
Barbara Latta
The Lord called for memorials and celebrations to occur on multiple occasions throughout history. Joshua commanded a member of each tribe to take a stone and set it up on the banks of the Jordan River...
Frank Santora
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s conflict in marriage, on the job, with a friend or family member. It’s so inevitable that it happens at times when you’d least expect it to. For ex...
How can the church walk alongside its pastor to help him keep his marriage vows with joy?...
Cultivating a thankful heart will result in speaking thankful words. But we all need periodic reminders to be thankful, and, for most of us, developing the habit of thankfulness may require some pract...
Catherine MacKenzie
Birthdays celebrate beginnings, and the celebration of Christmas is both a birthday and a beginning in more ways than one. Christmas marks a first breath, in the way that every one of our birthdays ma...
Lisa Baker
A good and righteous man (Luke 23:50). To be described as righteous in Scripture is high commendation, putting Joseph of Arimathea in the company of Abraham....