Meditating on Scripture: A Life-Changing Habit
Want to transform your life? Develop the habit of meditating on Scripture. Meditating on Scripture is like pouring your life into a divine mold.
Suffering is Never for Nothing (a new book by Elisabeth Elliot)
For many years, Elisabeth Elliot had a daily radio broadcast called, “Gateway to Joy.” A gateway to joy sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? But this short title came from a statement that Elisabeth often made: “The cross is the gateway to joy.” Wait. A cross? That isn’t the gateway to joy Read more…
What Does “God is Good” Really Mean?
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.A. W. Tozer As Christ-followers, we believe is that God is good. That statement is far more than a simple cliché: it is a critical dividing line! This belief distinguishes angels from demons. The Read more…
How Can You Trust God After He Allows Evil?
How can you trust God after He has allowed evil and suffering to tear through your life? My friend Joanna has known pain that I cannot even imagine. She experienced horrific abuse for many years of her childhood. Today, she says that she loves God–and I know that she does–but Read more…
Reformation Day: A Day to Celebrate!
A Holy-Day to Celebrate You probably know that today is Halloween. But did you realize that it is also Reformation Day? And did you know that Reformation Day is a fantastic thing to celebrate? On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the wooden door of the cathedral Read more…
Mountain-Moving Faith
Need to move any mountains? Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.” Read more…
Faith is Like a Fish
Do trials increase our faith? Have you heard that trials increase our faith? “Trials and troubles … are treadmills for the soul.”[i] That certainly may be true. But if trials increase faith, then we should be muscle-bulging spiritual giants and we should be surrounded by people of massive faith. We Read more…
