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Get More Out of Your Bible Study … Try a New Translation
An irony of faithful regular Bible study is that the more you read it, the more familiar the Bible becomes – and sometimes we may feel we are just not seeing...
Burning Coals
Scripture in Focus:“If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will...
The Ups and Downs of Life
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven …” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).Unless you live on a balmy tropical island where the temperatures stay...
Are New Year’s Resolutions Unbiblical?
Every year countless people make “New Year’s resolutions” – setting goals ranging from cleaning out closets to getting more exercise. Many people make...
Our Most Popular Posts of 2017
During the course of this past year we published well over a hundred blog posts here and on our sister site.The list below gives the twelve posts that were most popular on this site, so...
What Shepherds Do
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of...
Christianity’s Beachheads
World War II Memorial on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France Militarily, a beachhead (so named because it is often a literal area of beach on a sea coast) is an area that an army secures as the...
A Lion in a Pit on a Snowy Day
Among the band of heroes that the Bible tells us were King David’s leading warriors – his “special forces operatives” – one warrior is particularly interesting. David’s chief fighters were all...
A New FREE E-Book for You!
The four Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – lie at the very heart of Christianity, recording its most essential teachings and providing us with most of what we know about the...
Twelve Tweetable Thanksgiving Thoughts
Twelve thoughts you can read and perhaps tweet this week – each with a point worth thinking about. The thanksgiving difference:1) “When I started counting my blessings, my...
Going Beyond Good
The letters of the apostle Paul to the Thessalonian church – a strong church that Paul had planted and nurtured – are, in effect, spiritual report cards. The context is clear;...
Allies, Preparation, and Persistence
The story of David and Goliath may be the most famous conflict story in the Bible, but an earlier battle fought by Abram, before his name was changed to Abraham, was perhaps even more...