Walking Free: Overcoming What Keeps Us from Jesus
In the Christian tradition, however, the seven deadly sins have played a more serious and practical role in identifying and warning against destr...
Walk with Me: Traveling with Jesus and Others on Life’s Road
Such experiences typically motivate one of three responses in us. We either avert our gaze from the tragedy; we look on in a prurient, unhealthy ...
A Story of a Life Led by the Spirit
In the days following the promise, everyone was a possible Messiah.
Unknown Caller: Recognizing Jesus and the Kingdom
The absence of predictive writing in the Bible is one of the things that implicitly asserts its unique origins. The style of these books varies d...
In Pursuit of Jesus in Israel
Who is Jesus? There may not be a better, or more difficult, place to ask that question than Israel. All three of the worlds' major religions find...
Timely Warnings: What Jesus Said About the End Times
Certainly signs that update distances to destinations would be important. Signs that inform you of available restaurant or fuel options would cat...
The Race
The first year I ran, I hit every hurdle in my lane. It’s a quick way to get disqualified from a race if the judge decides you were trying to g...
The Point of It All – Why We Might Miss Jesus
When Jesus came to Earth the first time in the form of a baby, a lot of the religious experts missed him. These included many of the people who c...
The Least of These: What Jesus Said about the Judgment
When it comes to talking about the most vulnerable in society, Christians often default to the phrase “least of these.” It comes from the tai...
The (Impossible) Task of Following Jesus
I wasn’t a responsible kid, so I took the bet pretty much every morning and ended up scrambling most days. In the half-sleep of dozing, the cur...
Scripture – Engagement, Growth, and How the Spirit Works
Forgetting or ignoring the ritual was a secret kept with the deepest gravity. If the rest of the ranks found out you were neglecting, swift and c...
That Skill – Using Words to Invite Others Into Freedom
We’ve been wounded, the Christian faith professes; all of us. But it’s a wounding we’ve been denying and running from ever since, covering ...
Teach Us to Pray
“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (Psalm 145:18). So He invites us to draw near, and He promises tha...
Taking Sin Seriously
Christians take sin seriously. So seriously, in fact, that we have instituted extra rules and regulations to govern our beliefs and behaviors. Pr...
Risking Prayer
Remade in the Image of Jesus
Reclaiming Hope: Why We All Need Mercy, Justice, and Hope
What does it mean to live as a people who believe in God’s mercy and justice, and that they actually make a difference in this world? In our li...
Outrageous Compassion
He began with a stunningly wry self-introduction. He let us know that he has more than a dozen wives. Pausing for effect, he looked around the ro...
Origin Story: Following Jesus Back to the Beginning
My 22-year-old son’s faith doesn’t look like mine—and that’s fine. Colin has arrived at his own faith for his own good reasons. His faith...
No Longer Defined by My Past – Liz Curtis Higgs
We’ve all made bad decisions. Some of those bad decisions come back to haunt us, and some decisions we thought were good at the time end up hav...
Dealing with Loss
We all experience loss. The loss of dreams. The loss of relationships. The loss of people we love. But we serve a God who can use loss for our go...
Episode 13 - "Washing Blood While Singing the Blues" with Ruth Naomi Floyd
When faced with something or someone deemed “different,” why are we so quick to judge? Rather than appreciate what makes us different, we are...
Even King David had His Shortcomings
King David was a man after God’s heart. But of course, even he had his shortcomings! Today on Discover the Word, the team, and authors Randy Ri...
Episode 12 - "Learning to Survive" with Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty
Surviving is a strategy. Thriving is a path towards unlimited opportunities. Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty shares her experiences of unlikely mentors, ...
