We all want happiness, but some look for it in all the wrong places. Even as Christians, it’s easy for us to be enticed by the world around us and neglect the things that are most important. Open ...

Without the habit of reading your Bible, you’ll become spiritually anorexic. Obviously, that will make you a weak and ineffective leader at home. Reading the Bible is a spiritual discipline and, lik...

The Bible comes from God, but it is also the product of human authors. How do those two factors work together? 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is tru...

Is forgiveness the same as forgetting the offense? The short answer is no. It’s not really logical to think that you can just forget a major offense and the impact it had on you. If you’ve been ab...

Habit #1: Reading the Bible Christians believe that the Bible is inspired by God and authoritative for our lives. But we need to understand the Bible for ourselves, so that requires the bas...

The mission of every church and individual believer is simple: to help people pursue God (Matthew 28:19). The resources in our library use a simple framework for understanding that pursuit of God, bas...

Moses returns as a hero At the end of Exodus 4, Moses returns to Egypt and meets with the leaders of Israel. He left Egypt as a fearful murderer on the run, but he returns as a man restored and ...

You love your kids! That is why you put up with toothbrushes in the toilet, baby powder scattered all over the floor, crayon pictures on the wall, spilled milk on the carpet and total sleep deprivatio...

The Bible warns us that sin brings death into our lives. But this is not just a statement about spiritual death or the eternal consequences of our sin. It has implications in our everyday lives. Rela...

When we hear of earthquakes, school shootings, wars and other tragedies the question is always asked, “Where was God?” People wonder why a loving and caring God would allow this to happen....

Genesis 5 lists a genealogy stretching from Adam to Noah. Because the age of each person in the lineage is given, many people have attempted to calculate the age of the earth using genealogies. B...

The book of Genesis reports that people lived for hundreds of years. The most famous is Methuselah, who reportedly lived 969 years. This is very different from ordinary human experience today, as most...

Get the focus off yourself and live a life of thankfulness. What do you have to be thankful for? Psalm 100 reminds us of why thankfulness is an important character quality for any Christian. And P...

The Bible teaches us that every good gift comes from God. Whether you are talking about your iPhone or your relationships, all of it is a gift from God. Sometimes we will throw around the word “bles...

Every person has values they live by. Maybe you value family, security, honesty, or humor. Those are all great values. The Bible upholds a number of different values that we should have as Christians....

People tend to think of the book of Exodus as being about the Israelites leaving Egypt, but that is only half the book (chapters 1-18). The second half of the book (chapters 20-40), describes how God ...

The book of Exodus can be split into two parts. In the first part (chapters 1-18), Moses leads the people out of slavery in Egypt (as depicted in numerous movies). In the second part of the book (chap...