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article | December 4, 2020

When you receive a job offer . . . When your health results come back as questionable . . . When you need to decide on your future plans, moving or school or working . . . When you did something you’re …

article | October 6, 2009

Have you ever found yourself making (or thinking) any of the following statements? As you work through this exercise, consider how God may want to adjust your thinking as it relates to the issue of forgiveness. 1. “There’s no unforgiveness in my …

article | May 1, 2020

What’s one thing we’re loving this week? It’s this brand-new Revive Our Hearts booklet, Uncommon Compassion: Revealing the Heart of Christ, by one of our favorites, Erin Davis! From the Garden to the Gospels, from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a …

article | January 5, 2015

Do these small group busters sound familiar? Sarah routinely arrives fifteen minutes late. Jennifer derails the discussion to superficial topics. Stephanie attends half the meetings and rarely notifies you when she's not coming. Tina never says a word. Marie, on the other …

article | August 4, 2016

My parents are divorced. That sentence has been true for two-thirds of my life, and sometimes I still wince when I say it. Because it misses God's best, divorce is always painful. I've been walking around with pieces of shrapnel in my …

article | June 4, 2009

We've been talking about God's design for our femininity all month on the blog. Much of that conversation has revolved around marriage, motherhood, and the home. That makes sense. Those are certainly key elements in passages like Proverbs 31, Titus 2:3-5, and …

article | December 15, 2014

I recently received an email from a girl asking me to send her Bible verses on the topic of purity. She said she vaguely knew that the Bible promoted purity and holiness, but she wasn't exactly sure where to find the passages. …

article | June 17, 2009

We're focusing our attention on the subject of media this month. But it's really more a conversation about boundaries. You won't hear me saying "all media is bad," and I won't be asking you to unplug your TV, cancel your Internet service, …

article | January 24, 2018

Everybody studies the Bible a little differently. Personally, I take it one book at a time. I stay in that book until I’ve read and annotated (that’s a fancy word for “add notes to”) the whole thing. Then I move on to …

article | July 11, 2016

It can often feel like the local church is built mainly around married people or families, but interestingly enough, both Jesus and Paul were single, and so was one of my favorite women in Scripture, Lydia. We're not told much about Lydia's …