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Trust Issues Here's what happens in times of suffering. When the thing you have been trusting (whether you knew it or not) is laid to waste, you don't suffer just the loss of that thing; you also suffer the ...

The What So what exactly is forbidden by the third commandment? The word vain (as it’s rendered in the ESV) can mean “empty,” “nothing,” “worthless,” or “to no good purpose.” We are forbidden, therefore, from ...

A Unique Opportunity for Mission Halloween offers a great opportunity for many to engage in new relationships with those around us or to revisit some old relationships with new missional intentionality. Rega...

Pastors and leaders spend a lot of time with people—leading meetings, grabbing coffee, responding to messages. And yet with all this connection, they are often socially isolated, with their interior lives large...

Nearly half a million people run marathons annually. That's equivalent to everybody in Toledo, Ohio, running 26.2 miles every year. What's interesting is more than 50 percent of the runners are running marathon...

Q. Will we pray ourselves into a glad submission to God? A. Our preaching will never satisfy us. It isn’t meant to. Let’s give our hearts to God. ——— Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the...

Dear Church, There are some in your community who are struggling. Those among you may be struggling in different ways and to different degrees. Infertility is more common than you may realize. You very likel...

I love Bible studies. I love sermons. Both have their place and both can be tremendously beneficial in the life of the church and the spiritual diet of the believer. But I’ve observed that some sermons are actu...

One fundamental reason for a follower of Jesus to study the Bible is that Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, studied the Bible. Jesus' education, like that of other Jewish boys growing up in first-century Israel,...

As in cake-baking, 5K-running, baby-birthing, and home-building, so in Bible-studying - preparation is indispensable. Study methods abound, but using any of them effectively requires preparation. Instead of hun...