As Easter approaches, many people in American society wrestle with the question, can’t we just overlook the resurrection and believe in Jesus? Some say, there are so many good teachings ...
As I recently strolled down the grocery aisle, I was taken aback by the shelves piled high with jelly beans, plastic-wrapped gift baskets, pink and yellow marshmallow chicks, and giant ...
Everybody can be something to somebodyIt’s been said that education is wasted on youth. When we’re young, all we want to do is get out of school. Yet once we’re ...
John 17:20-26Deuteronomy 6:4-9; John 13:31-35; John 3:11-24Gary couldn’t wait to get to church every week. His pastor’s teacher inspired him, while the friendliness of the people drew him into the ...
Money is not evil, but it is very powerful, and, when handled by someone with a weak value system, it can be dangerous. There are some specific ways to safeguard ...
Just as a proper diagnosis is essential before treatment is prescribed, a proper diagnosis of human nature is necessary before a remedy can be prescribed.Our sophisticated age doesn’t like the ...
The movement upward [toward God] cannot be separated from the movement toward our neighbor. Both belong indissolubly together . . . Standing under God’s rule means living in community with ...
When legitimate concern morphs into toxic panic, we cross a boundary line into the state of fret. No longer anticipating or preparing, we take up membership in the fraternity of ...
Reading: Luke 21:1-4[The widow] out of her poverty put in all she had to live on. – Luke 21:4Additional Scripture Readings: Luke 6:38; 2 Corinthians 8:12The widow shuffled up the ...
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This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that ...
Memory Verse:For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son, [so] that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. – John ...
Tell the whole community of Israel that… each man is to take a lamb for his family… The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect… All the members ...
READ: John 4:3-30Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal ...
Turnaround PowerIn the beginning, God entered the darkness and displayed His turnaround nature. He spoke words that turned darkness into light and filled the emptiness with fruitfulness. His power brought ...