Christianity is all about new beginnings. Consider these verses from the Bible as we prepare the head into the new year: • “Remember not the former things, not consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth...
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering, 1986). The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense...
IT IS good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well...
By: Stacey Ayars I have been incredibly discouraged these past few weeks, watching politics and responses from afar as an American in a foreign land. But the greatest source of my discouragement doesn’t have anything to do with politics. It has...
Spiritual disciplines play a central role in the life of the Christian. The practice of spiritual disciplines is the place where rubber meets the road when it comes to the actual transformation of the believer as the result of faith. It is through...
Matthew 24:13 “But the one who endures until the end will be saved.” By the grace of God, I’ve never had too much trouble believing in Jesus as my Savior. Maybe it’s because I was introduced to the Gospel of Jesus at a young age, but believing in...
The Old Testament book of 1 Kings starts out with the a dying King David, and two parties fighting for succession rights to the throne of Israel. There is Adonijah’s party and Solomon’s party. Both parties believe their candidate should be king, and...
[This post needs a preface. America and biblical Israel are not the same. We do not follow the Gospel of God and Country. We follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God’s covenant people is the church, not America. However, there are similarities...
Our language and rhetoric reveal our burdens, passions, and priorities. Interestingly, the language in social media surrounding the election is quite passionate. When I hop on Facebook or Twitter, I see that people are infuriated, frustrated, angry...
Have you ever thought about the simple fact that people respond to Jesus very differently? There are those today who love him and willingly die for him, there are others who hate him and wish they never heard the name again, and then there are those...