Bible Promises & Prophecy

One day, while watching a child play with a toy in our neighborhood, the Holy Spirit asked me an unexpected question: “What did the child do to...

Eugene P. Deatrick, the former head of the soils department at West Virginia University, has a different take. He argues that when Jesus speaks of salt in Matthew 5:13, Mark 9:50, and Luke 14:34–35, He is not speaking of salt’s household use but of its...

Contrary to popular belief, the Ten Commandments did not originate at Mt. Sinai or in the Old Covenant; they were instilled at...

Earnest Foods is a quaint, wholesome organic food store that is closed on Saturdays to honor the seventh-day Sabbath. Earnest closed his store early on Friday evenings and kept it closed all day on Saturdays. That was unheard of for a grocery store, since Friday evenings and Saturdays were the busiest shopping times. Some considered it a foolish business decision to close during the most active shopping hours, but...

The King of the universe sees me, and I am not invisible. And how do I respond to such a call? Do I find myself too busy? Do I feel He is asking too much? Is my desire to say yes—but only if...

It’s with much emotion that I said farewell to my job today, and to many great colleagues who made these last four years the best years of my career. As I said goodbye, I shared the following as a guidepost for my life going forward: “I trust the next chapter because I know the Author.” So, what does the next chapter of my life look like? In this next chapter, I will...

God counted each day in that first week, but He did not name each day; He called day one the “first day." Likewise, days 2 through 6 were assigned ordinal numbers. It was only the seventh day that God named—calling it the Sabbath. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible do we find...

Meagan flourished in the class, and soon Joy and Meagan's mom, Rose, became good friends. That year, Rose shared that she was in the middle of a divorce and...

Repentance can be challenging for everyone. Humbling ourselves before God and surrendering our thoughts and ideas to Him may be hard, but it is...

As Christians, God has given us a responsibility from which we are not to run. We are to demonstrate His love, His power, and His righteous character. If, by our good example, we can...

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He was about an hour and a half away from home when he thought he smelled something, but didn’t think much of it. He noticed people on the interstate trying to get his attention. A young man persistently kept up with him and signaled him to get off the highway because...