Frank Santora
Everybody doing anything for God still gets “stoned” some time. While not physically crushing, these stones of persecution can cause emotional pain and cause real damage, for example, loss of jobs, re...
Hope Bolinger
We've heard about Ebenezer stones in the Old Testament. But can Christians create one today? And what does it look like?...
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...
Debbie Wilson
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Maybe you’ve said it, but do you believe it? Someone revised this into, “Sticks and stones may break our...
Clarence L. Haynes Jr.
Casting lots was a practice that was used in the ancient world to attempt to decipher what was the divine will in a particular matter. Because the outcome produced by casting lots was random, the resu...
Brian Croft
Opening a funeral service can feel as awkward as those first words you speak to the family who has just lost their loved one. Yet because of the attentiveness people give in those moments, we must sei...
Sheila Alewine
Do you ever wonder what heaven will be like? While Scripture doesn’t give us a lot of details about what our day-to-day life will be like (or even if there are days, since God operates outside ou...
Frank Santora
“Then David took his shepherd’s staff, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pocket of his shepherd’s pack, and with his sling in his hand approached Goliath” (1 Samuel 17:40...
Jenna Brooke Carlson
When the stone was rolled away, Jesus proved he was who he said he was, the Son of God. The emptied grave showed the world he had risen from the dead....
Adrian Rogers
"Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. For Thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favor the dust thereof. So the heathen shall fear the...
Britt Mooney
For Christians, funerals can be mixtures of sadness and joy. We grieve the loss of someone we love since we will miss their presence and voice. However, when a Christian passes away, we are also comfo...
Jim Wallace
There are many ways to verify the reliability of scripture -- perhaps the most persuasive argument can be found in the area of prophecy....
Micah Maddox
Jesus gives us the example to follow in the face of temptation through His own temptation in the wilderness. He had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and His flesh was weak. Mentally I cannot imagine t...
Dolores Smyth
Satan’s pride was the first sin committed in the universe, and humanity has been on notice ever since that pride goeth before the fall. Arguably, all sins are rooted in pride if we consider that sin i...
Andy Lee
Have you wondered if numbers repeated in the Bible, like the number 12, have special meaning? ...
Mike Leake
The Pharisees pick up on the depth of this claim. Only God has eternal life, therefore only God can give eternal life. Abraham is dead. The prophets are dead. Who does this Jesus think he is? ...
Pride is that which is destroying the testimony of many Christians and has made them very ineffective for God....
Bethany Verrett
An idol is inanimate. At best, worshipping a false god is worshipping a rock given a personality through human imagination. At worst, it is open rebellion against God by choosing to worship an evil en...
Bethany Verrett
Mentioned in one historical record during the reign of King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba was a real ruler whose life has been subject to intense scrutiny among Biblical scholars and secular historians....