Trials Prove True Joy: What Jesus Says About Happiness
Joe Rigney | Joy is not always a sign of spiritual vitality and strength. Some joy wears away quickly and easily, while other joy endures, even through difficult days.
Jan 08, 2022•11 min
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Who Really Has Your Ear? The Re-Forming Power of Words
David Mathis | Anytime we listen to others — on TV, on YouTube, on a podcast — we let their voices shape and direct us. Whose voices will shape and direct you this year?
Jan 06, 2022•13 min
A Father’s Good Pleasure
Jon Bloom | A father has the distinct and rare gift of giving good gifts to his children because God loves to give good gifts to his.
Jan 05, 2022•9 min
Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift
Scott Hubbard | If you’ve not thought much about how you spend your attention, you’re likely spending it poorly. Here are four lessons for stewarding your attention in a new year.
Jan 04, 2022•12 min
Repentance for a New Year
Greg Morse | When you hear God’s summons to repent, do you hear an invitation to misery, or a doorway to joy?
Jan 02, 2022•11 min
A New Year Worthy of God
Marshall Segal | Before you start a reading plan, or choose a diet, or buy a journal, or step on a treadmill, find a why worth changing for.
Jan 01, 2022•9 min
The Most Wonderful Books on Earth: Gospel Reading for a New Year
Scott Hubbard | Whatever your goals are for Bible reading next year, resolve, God helping you, to catch as much of Jesus as you can.
Dec 30, 2021•10 min
More of Jesus: ‘Maximalist Christianity’ for a New Year
David Mathis | Christ can handle our down seasons, but he doesn’t call us to settle for scraping by year after year. He invites us to more.
Dec 28, 2021•12 min
Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser
Marshall Segal | Whoever we are, we live to please either people or God. And if we think it’s possible to serve both, we likely live to please the former, not the latter.
Dec 27, 2021•11 min
The Good War Against Moods: How Stubborn Faith Overcomes Feelings
Joe Rigney | Saving faith is a stubborn thing. It holds onto Christ even when our emotions and moods bid us to let go.
Dec 26, 2021•10 min
The Most Stubborn Day of the Year: Why the World Stops for Christmas
David Mathis | Two thousand years later, no single day marks as many calendars, determines as many schedules, pauses as many businesses, and draws together friends and families like Christmas.
Dec 25, 2021•13 min
He Is, He Was, He Will Be: Adoring the Alpha and Omega
Jon Bloom | Who is this baby born in Bethlehem? He is Alpha and Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the great I Am.
Dec 24, 2021•12 min
Christmas with an Empty Chair: When the Holiday Just Isn’t the Same
Greg Morse | We need not hide or suppress the pain of loss at Christmas. God means for the pain to deepen our joy and hope in him.
Dec 23, 2021•10 min
The Wedding at the End of Marriage
Marshall Segal | Marriage doesn’t exist just to remedy the loneliness of singleness; marriage exists to tell us that we need Jesus.
Dec 19, 2021•9 min
Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire: What Words Reveal About Us
Jon Bloom | Some wear their hearts on their sleeve — but we all wear our hearts in our words. If you want to know the condition of your own heart, listen carefully to what you say.
Dec 16, 2021•10 min
Worthless Conversation: How God Weighs Our Words
Greg Morse | Few thoughts should make us slower to speak than this one: on judgment day, every word we speak will stand before the throne of God.
Dec 13, 2021•10 min
A Son Worthy to Be King
Scott Hubbard | Many expected the coming Christ to be the Son of David. No one expected that he also would be David’s Lord.
Dec 12, 2021•9 min
The Perils of a Passive Man
Marshall Segal | Sin in men can open the door to passivity — and passivity opens the door to more sin.
Dec 09, 2021•14 min
Who Wrote Hebrews? Exploring a New Testament Mystery
David Mathis | Of the New Testament’s 27 books, we know who the author was for 26 of them. What can we say about the unnamed, unknown author of Hebrews?
Dec 06, 2021•20 min
More Shocking Than Christ: Why We Call Jesus Lord
Joe Rigney | When the New Testament writers call Jesus “Lord,” they often mean much more than “ruler” or “king.” They mean Yahweh himself.
Dec 05, 2021•7 min
Someone Is Listening to Your Suffering
Scott Hubbard | Why can Christians always sing, even in the hardest days? Because our God always reigns, because our God will deliver, and because someone is listening.
Dec 03, 2021•11 min
Labor to Give (or Take) No Offense
Jon Bloom | The world and the church have been deeply fractured by controversies of various kinds, which makes now as good a time as ever to stand apart by our love for one another.
Dec 02, 2021•11 min
Indescribable: The Many and Marvelous Names of Jesus
Greg Morse | Why so many names for Jesus? Because God wanted us to know that we will always have more to see and love in him.
Nov 28, 2021•11 min
We Were Made for Thanksgiving: A Father’s Gratitude for a National Holiday
David Mathis | God made us to honor him — and few realities tap so deeply into our purpose and joy as humans as giving him thanks.
Nov 25, 2021•9 min
Men of Faith Are Men Who Fight
Marshall Segal | To fight the fight of faith means not only that you keep trusting Jesus, but that you do so even as others walk away.
Nov 24, 2021•11 min
Give Thanks and Give More: A Guide to Joyful Generosity
Joe Rigney | Generosity isn’t first about giving more, but about receiving better. If you want to be a more generous giver, ask God to make you a more grateful receiver.
Nov 23, 2021•7 min
There Is a Name: Our Exclusive and Precious Christ
Scott Hubbard | While so many get offended that Jesus claims to have the only name that saves, Christians stop and wonder that there’s any name at all.
Nov 21, 2021•9 min
When Darkness Veils His Lovely Face
Jon Bloom | We store up God’s word in our hearts now, so that when the unthinkable happens and our lives begin to crumble, we still have somewhere safe to stand.
Nov 20, 2021•12 min
Victory That Lasts: Where to Begin Against Lust
Greg Morse | Many fail to gain victory in sexual purity because they begin with how and not with why.
Nov 18, 2021•10 min
Do You Insult Your Savior’s Bride? What Jesus Thinks of His Church
David Mathis | In a day when it’s popular to be cynical and broad-brush “the church,” what if we remembered Jesus’s heart for his bride and how he talks about her?
Nov 16, 2021•16 min
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