In 2012, a man in Illinois won $1 million in the lottery. The story goes that he was so excited he leaped 2 feet in the air and tipped the store clerk ...
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Sometimes we feel the challenges God presents to us are too big to overcome.
The problems we face seem to form a giant wall we can’t get past. It looms over us, and no matter how we batter at it, ...
Sometimes we feel we’ve reached the end of our rope, we’ve tied a knot just to be able to hang on, and the rope’s coming unraveled in our hands.
We ask how God could let us sink so low.
There ...
We struggle with those times when we have received the Word of God, and still, everything seems against us. We take a step forward in his name, and the enemy seems to push us two steps back.
When ...
It is easy for us to lose our focus on God. Few are the people who can keep God in their sights when financial turbulence and emotional turmoil buffet us.
However, God lives in the Land of Neither. ...
Casting our nets of salvation inside the church walls is not Jesus’ plan. He didn’t try to win souls in the temple. Instead, he reached out to those caught in the steely grip of their ...
What is faith? Is it the lack of doubt?
After her death, Mother Teresa’s diaries were published. In them she expressed her doubt that God existed. Yet, no one can deny the good she did in his ...
Is there a difference between right and righteous? What should those words mean to us today?
Matthew 5:10 tells us that blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for ...
Forget about hunger and thirst. Those two concepts are as alien in modern America as coal-fired cook stoves and shoeing horses. In America, we need to envision something closer to ...
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Look around you. Without a doubt you could name five blessings God has given you in the past year. Our God loves us and ...
We equate our hearts with love. However, where do “will” and “intent” originate? The head? Do we feel in one location and think in another?
To understand what Jesus meant in Matthew 5:8, we ...
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How can mourning be a blessing? It seems a painful reality instead, one most of us would gladly discard at the first ...
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How do we see our role in the Body of Christ? Are we pew potatoes, or do we have our shirtsleeves rolled up, ready to work? ...
In 2012, a man in Illinois won $1 million in the lottery. The story goes that he was so excited he leaped 2 feet in the air and tipped the store clerk ...
Read more: Fortune or Misfortune?
Sometimes we feel the challenges God presents to us are too big to overcome.
The problems we face seem to form a giant wall we can’t get past. It looms over us, and no matter how we batter at it, ...
Sometimes we feel we’ve reached the end of our rope, we’ve tied a knot just to be able to hang on, and the rope’s coming unraveled in our hands.
We ask how God could let us sink so low.
There ...
We struggle with those times when we have received the Word of God, and still, everything seems against us. We take a step forward in his name, and the enemy seems to push us two steps back.
When ...
It is easy for us to lose our focus on God. Few are the people who can keep God in their sights when financial turbulence and emotional turmoil buffet us.
However, God lives in the Land of Neither. ...
Casting our nets of salvation inside the church walls is not Jesus’ plan. He didn’t try to win souls in the temple. Instead, he reached out to those caught in the steely grip of their ...
What is faith? Is it the lack of doubt?
After her death, Mother Teresa’s diaries were published. In them she expressed her doubt that God existed. Yet, no one can deny the good she did in his ...