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The Gift of Trials

The two men conquered human flight, but the Wright brothers’ journey to success was never easy. Despite countless failures, ridicule, money...

God Hears Her | Internally Unsettled

Show Summary: Do you ever take time to sit in silence? Do you feel like your schedule is too packed full to have time for yourself? When God crea...

Let My People Go

The acclaimed painting Let My People Go by Aaron Douglas uses vibrant colors of lavender, green, and gold, along with traditional African imagery...

Discover the Word | Jerusalem! | Week 1

Did you know that Jerusalem is the most frequently mentioned place named in the Bible? And if, as Bible geographer Dr. Jack Beck contends, place/...

Still Fruitful for God

There’s an old folktale about a woman who carried water home every day from a river using two buckets at either end of a long pole—on...

Made Right with Jesus

“We’re ready to board our flight to Montego Bay,” came the announcement. I was traveling as a speaker for and leader of a high ...

Don’t Lose Heart

Weary. That’s how Satya felt after nine months in his new job. As a believer in Jesus, he’d sought to follow God’s principles i...

Easy and Hard

Mark was a promising young pastor. Then one morning his son, Owen, collapsed and died while kicking a ball with him. Mark was devastated and stil...

A New Beginning with God

“Did your sin also put Jesus on the cross?” That’s the question Dutch painter Rembrandt seems to be asking in his 1633 masterpi...

Walking with God

For years, fitness experts have stressed the importance of running for cardiovascular health. But recent scientific studies have demonstrated tha...

God Hears Her | Navigating Change (with Brittany Hurd)

Guest Bio: Brittany Hurd is a former theatrical professional who, in late 2020, went a few rounds with a brain tumor and lost her eyesight. A tra...

Scouting for Truth

Reflecting on why people tend to be entirely convinced they’re right—even when they’re not—author Julia Galef suggests th...

Discover the Word | Psalm 30-Understanding God’s Heart

If any Bible character lived a life of seemingly constant danger, it was David—and we feel the weight of that danger most clearly in many of hi...

God Will Act

A hardworking clerk, Erin always did her job well. But after she was accused of dishonesty, Erin was put on leave while being investigated. She f...

Out of the Mouths of . . .

What if you could understand what your dog was saying? New technology uses “bark” recognition to help determine what feelings canines...

What Scripture Reveals

In April 1817, a disoriented young woman was found wandering around in Gloucestershire, England, wearing exotic clothes and speaking an unknown l...

Better than Life

After another unexpected health setback, I joined my husband and others during a retreat in the mountains. I trudged up the wooden staircase that...

A Deaf Heart

To improve her sign language skills, Leisa immersed herself in the world of the Deaf. Soon she learned the problems they face. The Deaf are awkwa...

Seeing God in Creation

Kenny stood before the congregation he’d left years before after he’d lost faith in God. He shared that his belief had been restored....

God Hears Her | Overcoming Disappointment (with Lisa Victoria Fields)

Guest Bio: Lisa Victoria Fields, author of When Faith Disappoints: The Gap Between What We Believe and What We Experience, is a renowned Christia...

Little Town of Bethlehem

Phillips Brooks wrote the lyrics to the beloved carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” after visiting Bethlehem. Brooks, pastor of a chur...

Discover the Word | Give Up!

Do you give back to God for all He’s given you? Why or why not? How? Do you give to the church, support a missionary, donate to a nonprofit, re...

God Knows Everything

God truly knows all. But according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, the National Security Agency knows a great deal about as well throug...

Giving Back to God

One year, the leaders of our congregation invited us to give, in addition to our regular weekly offerings, gifts to build a new gymnasium—a...