The Good Surgeon Great Physician, Healing, Job, Sanctification, Suffering, Trusting God Why do the righteous suffer? John Piper writes about this passage: “Elihu puts the pain of sickness and visions of the night side by… READ MORE
Navigating Our World Christian Walk, Corporate Worship, Spiritual Life, The World, Worship When you walk in a room in your home, you don’t usually have to think about where the furniture is. Your brain doesn’t have… READ MORE
Connected Community, Connection, Health, The Body of Christ, The Church “Within a shrouded New Zealand forest, a tree stump keeps itself alive by holding onto the roots of its neighboring trees, exchanging water and… READ MORE
We Like Sheep Guidance, Psalm 23, Sheep, Shepherd Make no mistake that David, the author of the 23rd Psalm, knew what it was to be a shepherd and he knew what it… READ MORE
Always With Us God's presence, God's Promises, Suffering, Trials Joni Eareckson Tada, who has lived as a quadriplegic for fifty years, shares her answer to the question “If you have enough faith, will… READ MORE
The Forgiveness Cycle Confession, Forgiveness, Grace, Repentance, Sanctification Dissonance is a musical term that indicates a lack of harmony. Cognitive dissonance is having disharmony in our thoughts. It happens when our idea… READ MORE
Tale As Old As Time Guilt, Hiding, Shame, Sin, The Fall A boy was told by his father not to play with his father’s watch. While his father was away, the five-year-old initially decided he… READ MORE
Unwanted Gift Gifts, Patience, Seasons, Waiting, Waiting on God As we wait, it sometimes feels like our groom has given us a blender, like fiancé Brian gave his betrothed for their eight-month anniversary… READ MORE
Waiting Time Patience, Technology, Time, Waiting, Waiting on God Generally speaking, we are bad at waiting. Our tech usage is one way we recognize our growing inability to wait for anything, but as… READ MORE
Spoiler Alert God's Plan, God's Promises, God's Will, Happy Ending, Hope, Spoiler, Story, Trials The Christian life is not one without heartache and trial. You will not get to skip all of the conflict in your life’s story,… READ MORE
Now I See Amazing Grace, Blind, Salvation, Sight, The Gospel This ABC News video captures the magical moment when someone who is blind gains the ability to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctXSpfEDK8. In clips such as these,… READ MORE
Hurting Turns Into Healing Hard times, Healing, Hurt, Psalms, Trusting God Trusting God in adversity is difficult, but we must do it. Josh Moody gives a great example of how hurting can turn into healing:… READ MORE
Eternity Is A Long Time COVID-19, Eternity, God's Love, Love, Quarantine God’s love is giving in its nature. That’s what John 3:16 tells us: he “so loved the world” that he did what? “He gave.”… READ MORE
Someone To Love Contentment, Loneliness, Love, Relationship with God, Satisfaction American pop band Fountains of Wayne has a song called “Someone to Love” that tells a story a lot of people today can identify… READ MORE
The Blind Side Adoption, Forgiveness, Justification, Peace, Salvation, Transformation This real-life story is the basis of the movie The Blind Side, in which a young troubled teen (Michael Oher) is adopted into a… READ MORE
Inside Out God's Saving Grace, Grace, Peace, Redeem, Redeemed, Redemption, Salvation, Transformation Sometimes good news comes from the most unlikely source. In the movie Inside Out, Riley decides to run away from home but is stopped… READ MORE
Les Miserables Freedom, God's Covenant, God's Saving Grace, Grace, Salvation, Sin In this video clip from Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is shown incredible grace that not only frees him from the penalty of his sin… READ MORE
Can You Hear Me Now? Hearing God, Knowing God, Prayer Do you remember the Verizon guy who switched to Sprint , who was always asking the person on the other end of the phone,… READ MORE
The Lord of the Rings Covenant, God's Covenant, God's Saving Grace, Salvation, Saving, Savior In J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the armies of man are at the brink of ruin,… READ MORE
Derek Redman Dependence On God, Faithfulness, God's Faithfulness, Struggle, Struggles, Trials, Trusting God, Weakness, Weaknesses During the 1992 Olympic Games, runner Derek Redman was injured as he rounded the final turn and was unable to complete his race, until… READ MORE