“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you will return.” So begins the yearly Christian season known as Lent on February 14th 2024, a...

Beware of False Teachers Just as the true prophets of Israel had to deal with the prophets of foreign gods and false prophets from among...

1 Corinthians 13: 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I...

Following Jesus When He Is Not Here Jesus was fully human and fully God (John 1:1, 14). He was not God with a human veneer—like a...

Lent is a 40-day period of time leading up to Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. The word "lent" comes from...

Have you ever felt circumstances nipping at your feet, threatening to tug you into an ocean of despair? You lose your job, receive an...

1 John 2:15–17 15. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16....

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the...

The Prayer of Faith: Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you...

Can a person separate water from the sea? When I think of the sea, I picture a vast body of water with waves crashing as they approach...

If we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.—2 Timothy 2:13 He Is Trustworthy This verse pictures a radically...

1. Predestination should result in humility, praise, and comfort. Sometimes Christians passionately disagree with each other about...

How can a person make sense of the Bible? After all, it was composed by some forty authors at different times in different countries, and...

Discerning God’s Will For the believer wanting to know God’s will for his or her life, the first question to pose is not “What should I...

The Widow’s Offering Jesus sat down across from the place where people put their temple offerings. He watched the crowd putting their...

Infinite Condescension In this act of taking on human nature, Christ’s infinite condescension [“descending to be with”] wonderfully...

What Are Angels? While God’s word does not offer us a detailed description of how and when God made the angels, or of what exactly they...

Praying the Word means reading (or reciting) Scripture in a spirit of prayer and letting the meaning of the verses inspire our thoughts...

We Have Come to Worship Him Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east...

What the Gospel Means for You Ponder this remarkable situation with me. If the Son of God came to help you stop sinning—to destroy the...