....As we see the world react to this Covid situation, we are starting to see the hate for the church come out. 

...The homeless is a relatively new term in the history of our country.  Why are there so many who are homeless?  Who are the homeless?  What should churches do?  What responsibility should they take?

What is backsliding? Are Christians at risk for backsliding, and if they do backslide, what can they do about it?

...Easy believism is all most professing Christians seek.

...Where does this kind of peace come from? How can we develop this kind of deep-seated contentment and trust in our heavenly Father in the midst of the stormy seasons of life?

...The fire was kindled; the voice of the five confessors was heard, still exhorting one another in the midst of the flames: Courage, my brothers; courage. . . . These were the last audible words of these five champions and martyrs of the Lord.

.... It’s hard to imagine anything so unsettling as learning that a spiritual hero has been living a secret life of egregious sin. Stunned, shocked, and shaken, you might not know how to process news like this. Here are five principles to help you through it.

...At times, God feels too distant, dissimilar, and above us to be loved. At other times, God feels too near, present, and like us to be feared. It’s an ongoing challenge to hold these two thoughts about God together, but it is massively important that we do, for at least four great reasons.

...These little adjustments to our spiritual lives, while seemingly small and insignificant by themselves, make all the difference in avoiding spiritual danger and experiencing intimacy with God.

...Balthasar Hübmaier’s hymn “A Song in Praise of God’s Word” is 18 stanzas and covers the whole Bible from Adam to Christ.

...In Exodus 33 Moses asks God, “Please show me your glory” (33:18). How does God respond?red

... Too often we confine this word to the vocational realm, but in reality, all of us are leading something. We are leading a group at church, we are leading our families in the home, we are leading others in conversation – at the very least, we are leading ourselves under the lordship of Jesus. By that standard, there is something around leadership for all of us.

This can be a difficult question to answer. In the case of the one who does not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ the answer is an unequivocal, “Yes!” What about the one who has a personal relationship with Christ?

Celebrities are the gods and goddesses of the 20th and 21st centuries.
 

....But God’s plan was for the great king to arise from a place of great humility. God knows that when He brings greatness out of humility, He gets all the praise.

...What could God be doing with my weariness? Or your weariness?  More than you probably think.