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Faith Makes Us Right in God’s Sight

Romans 3:22–24, 27–28 In this passage of Romans, Paul very clearly stated that we are made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ. This assertion was a massive shift ...

Living in His Light

Editor’s note: 5-Minute Devotions for Teens by Laura Smith was written for your kids and grandkids to help them take care of their mental and spiritual health. As Laura says in ...

Blessed Are the Spiraling: Become Yoda

Editor’s note: Levi Lusko’s new book, Blessed Are the Spiraling, reminds us that when we’re in the midst of a raging storm, or transition, or major life change, we’re actually ...

How Would Jesus Handle Life Drainers?

One of my friends likes to use the term life drainers for people who aren’t concerned about conflict resolution or relationship reconciliation, but whose primary intention is to prove they ...

Compelled to Pray

Compelled by Problems in Our World Daniel’s prayer pulsates with this type of emotional conviction. His life for sixty-seven years had been difficult at best. As an old man, he ...

The Only Love That Never Fails

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will ...

God Will Help You Get Through Grief

We don’t discuss graveyards to brighten our day. Cemeteries aren’t typically known for their inspiration. But an exception was found in a graveyard near Bethany. And that one exception is ...

God Turns Gloom into Good

Last year during a speaking engagement in Tupelo, Mississippi, I checked out of my hotel and started my truck. It roared like a motorcycle with no muffler. During the night ...

Whose Agenda is Our Concern Anyway?

The first petition in the Lord’s Prayer is that God’s name be hallowed. The second petition, “Your Kingdom come,” builds on the first by showing us how God’s name is ...

Jehoshaphat, Isaiah, and Job: Prayers for a Time Such As This

For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You. — 2 Chronicles ...

Surrounded, Alone

Then the woman... came trembling and fell at His feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched Him and how she had been instantly ...

No Matter What, God Is Faithful

 LAMENTATIONS Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. — Lamentations 3:22-23 Jerusalem had been under ...

The Sinful Woman & The Woman Caught in Adultery

The Sinful Woman A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar ...

Esther: Letting God Be in Control

Editor’s note: Today is International Women’s Day which is the perfect day to invite you to our next Online Bible Study 12 Daring Women by Lisa Harper, Margaret Feinberg, Bianca ...

Three Days Later, He Rose Again from the Dead

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel. — 2 Timothy 2:8 How do you know Christianity is really true? This is the inevitable ...

Fasting

Editor’s note: Of all the spiritual disciplines, fasting is probably one of the least practiced. Fasting is hard. It takes grit, but it is so worth it! Since we're in ...

Free Resources

Free Easter Bible Study with Christine Caine and Lisa Harper

Free Easter Bible Study with Christine Caine and Lisa Harper

Easter isn’t just a point in history - it’s the point of history! Join the FREE Online Bible Study with Christine Caine and Lisa Harper and get access to 4 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 3/17