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Being the hands and feet of Jesus means that Christ’s followers, past, present, and future, are obedient in their commission to preach the gospel and co-labor with Christ to love, serve, and heal the broken, hurting, and hopeless of this world.

A good mother wants the best for her children. She will do what it takes to ensure her children have what they need. Rebekah made a tremendous sacrifice in order to ensure her son received Isaac’s blessing. She understood what the blessing was...

While the process of grief may vary, what never varies is God’s desire to comfort us. So, whether you are in the beginning stages of grief or have walked with it for some time, here are five Bible verses to encourage you in your darkest hour.

Smile if you feel like it. Cry when you need to. Trusting in the Lord doesn’t mean you have to stop feeling what you feel. Live in it for a little while, just don’t stay there. God is on the move; he leads us to a new day.

Reading the Old Testament with an eye on the New Testament indicates another perspective about the violence throughout the earth’s earlier days. We know God’s ultimate plan involves rescuing His people through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Every moral decision after the Fall became a struggle between doing what’s good, just, pure, and righteous versus doing what’s evil, sinful, wicked, and wrong. The same was true for every generation thereafter. Did God create evil? No. Absolutely...

The fact is disciplines occur in all areas of human life. Disciplines are important because they help us grow in our Christian life. The more we engage in spiritual disciplines, the more our lives reflect the glory of Christ.

Guide your children to counseling and motivate them to work hard at rebuilding. When you resurrect a marriage, you make it new. Thank you, Lord, that you do more than merely stitch the holes but start afresh so that a struggling marriage can be...

The Bible doesn’t whitewash or sanitize the sinful stories it tells. The Bible also doesn’t usually tell us the moral of the sin-filled stories. So why are “R-rated” stories even in the Bible? God knew exactly what He was doing. Let’s not miss...

Without question, the greatest quest is seeking God. Individuals, families, communities, and even nations have sought God different ways for various reasons. Throughout the Bible, we see people seeking God through prayer, sacrifices, and...

This is why God calls us to confess to one another. Not for salvation, but for healing. When we are vulnerable and bring our sin to the light of another human being, the darkness’s power breaks, and the mask comes off. We become ourselves again.

"Jesus saves" is a popular phrase that you see on shirts, bumper stickers, and banners. But do we really understand the depth of that statement? The saving grace of Jesus Christ reveals our greatest need for him, proves his deity and divine...

In John 10:7 Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.’” ESV. Again a couple of verses after He repeats, “I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture” John...

The refiner will only stop the process once the metal residue reflects his image, like a mirror. In the same way, God wants to spiritually purify us with the result that our hearts and actions reflect the character of Jesus Christ to others.

While Deuteronomy 23:3 forbids interfaith marriages, it’s also true that if a spouse converts to the Lord, she becomes a Jewess (especially through marriage) and is richly blessed by the Lord as we see in the genealogy of our Lord and Savior,...

This “delightful aroma” is the fragrance of Jesus Christ who is all over us by his blood. Christ is the Father’s greatest pleasure. Christ’s scent on us is the lingering fragrance of everything honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable,...

In Christian circles, the “Sinner’s Prayer” typically refers to a non-Christian’s initial prayer of repentance and faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus; thus, it is often associated with the moment of conversion into the Christian...

We need to do everything with a spirit of kindness, compassion, and love. Conflict resolutions should not be done out of hostility, anger, or pride. Biblical conflict resolution is seeking out restoration of relationships and peace to return to...

God despises any sort of idol or whatever would have His spot in our hearts. God has contempt for the workings of the flesh. They are the things that uncover the degeneracy and utter debasement of humanity.

Those who do evil find it hard to do good because we all have a sinful nature, and those who live according to the sinful nature will find it difficult to stop living in accordance with the sinful nature.