By Terry Crist We all come from places. We live in places. In first-century Israel, the land was dotted with approximately 240 closely knit communities, much like modern neighborhoods. These smal...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2024/01/the-world-god-loves-has-a-face/
By Michele Cushatt Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the w...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2023/03/a-faith-lesson-from-peters-denial-of-jesus/
By Andrew Klavan In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was ma...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2022/10/jesus-the-word-made-flesh/
What do you imagine when, in the middle of Psalm 23, you read the author telling God, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies”? A table? In a field? With adversaries lurk...
By Guideposts After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2021/12/star-of-wonder-star-of-night/
What would happen if a career homicide detective—who equated belief in Christianity to be equal with belief in the Easter Bunny—used the same investigative approach used to solve modern-day m...
By Philip Yancey By my reckoning Judas and Peter stand out as the most mathematical of the disciples. Judas must have shown some facility with numbers or the others would not have elected him tre...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2021/07/the-new-math-of-grace/
By Scott Erickson I. Love. Holidays. I’m always up for a celebration! And the crème de la crème for me is Christmas. It is by far my favorite time of year. But a few years ago, as the twinkly...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2020/10/recapture-the-wonder-of-god-with-us-this-advent-season/
Did you know that, even though they don’t believe in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus, scholars who are not Christians do agree with believers on some matters concerning Jesus? Surprisingly, ther...
By Michele Cushatt There are times when I read the Old Testament and struggle to make sense of it. The dysfunctional families, murderous agendas, strange dreams and experiences. It seems left fie...
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2019/11/the-god-who-meets-you-where-you-are/