The Bible Reveals God the Father to Us Father God is the star of the Old Testament; it explains his expectations and shows his care The story arc in the Bible is God’s relationship to us: the creator and his creation. Most people of faith—the...
What is the Cost of Obeying God? Jeremiah said what God told him to say and suffered for it Jeremiah’s time as a spokesman for God is filled with frustration. Not only do the people ignore what he tells them, they sometimes do exactly the...
Church Is For Girls The modern church is geared toward women and men don’t fit I have known the title for this post for a long time. In my heart I knew it was true, but I struggled to articulate why. Now I can. I read David Murrow’s book Why Men...
Sometimes God Tells Us Not To Pray The Bible is full of surprising verses that we will do well to explore Sometimes I see things that surprise me when I read the Bible—things I think shouldn’t be there. One example is when God tells Jeremiah to...
Why Does God Sometimes Say “No?” We must trust that God always has our best interest in mind regardless of what happens I recently prayed for a friend who was interviewing for a job. I have prayed for her interviews many times in the past only to...
Should Church Be a Place of Refuge, Like a City of Refuge in the Bible? If we don’t protect the innocent from retribution, who will? God tells Joshua to establish cities of refuge, a safe place for people to seek sanctuary. The specific context...
Do We Need to Include the Lament in Our Sunday Worship Services? Expressions of grief and sorrow abound in the Psalms but the church has forgotten how to lament In the churches I have attended throughout my life and visited in the past few years...
Sunday is a Great Day For Some Recreation Having a regular Sabbath provides an opportunity to rest and recharge The dictionary defines recreation as a time of refreshment for our mind or body through the use of an activity that amuses or...
We Need to Learn From the Seven Churches in Revelation John’s vision for the area’s churches provides us with practical insight today Many people love the Book of Revelation, the apostle John’s supernatural treatise of the end times. It’s an epic...
How to Hear From God Supernatural conversations with the divine can happen—for those ready to listen For much of my life I believed what well-meaning people taught me. They said I could talk to God through prayer, and he would talk to me through...
