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A Daily Staple Right now I have one breakfast food: oatmeal and almond butter. This is pretty much what I eat every morning—or at least, every morning where I have time between waking up and making the two-...

Q: What does it mean to be sanctified? A: To be sanctified is to have your faith simplified, clarified, and deepened. You need God. You know God. You love God. You see life, God, yourself, others more truly...

Many people are afraid that when they die they're going to be immersed in darkness. After all, when you close your eyes, it's dark. And when we see a person who is dead, his or her eyes are closed. So it's eas...

Why Meet in Person? Over the past few months, most churches have stopped meeting in person. A global pandemic, government regulations, and a desire to serve each other and society have kept us from gatherin...

Many people claim various places are sacred. In a recent family trip out west, we visited the sacred grounds of the Black Hills. Several years before we visited our nation's military cemetery, Arlington Nation...

It is a hallmark and non-negotiable conviction of evangelical Christianity to ascribe to a high view of the Bible as the word of God. Since the Protestant Reformation, we have maintained a doctrine of Scriptur...

Pray about Everything To pray the Bible, you simply go through a passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text. See how easy that is? Anyone can do that. If you d...

The Space Between Waiting for anything feels like a complete waste of time. Waiting for God to move or answer seems even worse. Lamentations 3:25–27 shows us the value of living in the space betwe...

Keep Watch As you engage relationally with your local fellowship and hear of a member in one of these situations, take note: that brother or sister could already be straying. Here are five common ways churc...

Q: Is God mad at me for my sin? A: Fallen, anxious sinners are limitless in their capacity to perceive reasons for Jesus to cast them out. We are factories of fresh resistances to Christ’s love. Even when w...