Celebrating Saintly and Smart Women like Abigail! Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s think together about an amazing Bible heroine you may not know well. On Mother’s Day, many people think about—and many preachers preach about—the Proverbs 31 woman. That is good and fitting, but the Bible contains more than descriptions of godly women; it gives us real-life stories of remarkable women and their faithful God. Let’s consider Abigail’s life and draw some lessons for our spiritual lives,

Getting Closer through Challenging Circumstances! You see it on t-shirts, hear it from athletes, and read it on gym walls: "No pain, no...

Reading the Bible is how God changes you, even if you cannot tell. Resist the temptation to to stop reading God's means of changing you!

Light the Fires of Meditative Passion for God! Part 2 In the previous post , we considered the burning and hellish thoughts that can harm you as you lie down to sleep, especially if you cannot fall asleep quickly. In certain seasons, burning lust and burning anger appear as frequent nighttime visitors. You might be missing sleep simply because of them! But there can be more bedtime problems that bedevil you. Just as you must turn from consuming lust and overflowing ang

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The Rewards of Recapitulation Repeating yourself is not usually a good idea. Children on a trip will inevitably and inexhaustibly ask...