Meg Bucher
Tragedy is a prevalent backdrop this side of heaven. Our hearts and minds are scorched with sorrow and drained of comprehension as we scroll through our daily news feeds. For modern generations of chi...
Hope Bolinger
Advent: four weeks that lead up to the holiday of Christmas. Many churches will light a different candle each week to represent joy, hope, peace, etc. as we remember about the true meaning of the seas...
Lori Stanley Roeleveld
How can we pick the best Bible translation?...
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...
Jessica Udall
Do you think of your glass as half empty? Do you feel like there’s never enough? If you do, don’t feel too bad – this is human nature. But there is good news!In the book of Ephesians, Paul turns our n...
Mike Leake
The apostle Paul says to young Timothy that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness…” Be honest, do you ever q...
Bethany Verrett
So many words of wisdom turns of phrases, and colloquial sayings become a key element of culture. Some come from Shakespeare, some from Benjamin Franklin, others from the Bible. Many are so ubiquitous...
Mike Leake
The writer of Ecclesiastes is certainly correct, “of making many books there is no end…” Each month I receive periodicals advertising hundreds of new books in the Christian market. Though we could rea...
Elizabeth Laing Thompson
We’ve all been there: lonely. Longing to feel connected, needed, known.Wishing relationships weren’t so hard—or so hard to find.Wanting closer friends, people who “get” us in that deep-down, soul-mate...
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...
Heather Adams
Holy Week is a time for remembrance of the final events in Jesus’ earthly life. It’s a time for reflection, when we consider all that Jesus went through on our behalf.I used to put all my focus on Eas...
Jessica Brodie
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? We started the new year determined to make a fresh start and nail that goal: Exercise daily. No more sugar. Get organized. Quit smoking. Then, a week into the new yea...
Mike Leake
Someone once asked me what is the most important tip you would give to a person first learning to read the Bible. My answer is simple. It’s all one big story that points to Jesus. This truth has revol...
Melissa Henderson
Scripture is the Word of God shared through various translations, versions, chronologically, and more. But how do we know where to start reading the Bible? ...
Ed Jarrett
Revelation is the last book in the Bible and is a letter written to seven churches in what is today the country of Turkey. It was written by John at Jesus direction. Beyond that there are a wide var...
Brian Hardin
Surveys have shown that most people believe the Bible contains truth and that it holds the answers to the basic questions of life, and yet few of us have an intimate relationship with it. Even thoug...
Dawn Wilson
I have to admit something to my shame. I never read the book of Isaiah until 2017. Oh, I read and even memorized a few verses, but I was afraid to tackle the book, thinking it would be too difficult. ...
Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Revelation can be a frightening or confusing book for many of us. But when we understand how to approach it, we can read with confidence. ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
We belong to Christ, and we are His bride (2 Corinthians 11:2). How do we get to know the One who saved us from the wrath of God except by spending time in His Word — the Bible? But is it biblical to ...