Love God, Love Others
The gospel is sometimes summarized as, “Love God and love others.” But if that was Jesus’ message, why was He crucified? Today on Discover ...
How to Correctly Approach Scripture
Learn how to approach the Scriptures considering our cultural bias.
Understanding How to Read the Bible Today
The Bible was written for us, but it wasn’t written to us! So how does our culture today affect the way we read the Bible? Today on Discover th...
Seeing the Bible with a New Cultural Lens
The Bible wasn’t written to 21st-century Americans. But it’s really difficult not to read our own cultural values into Scripture! Today on Di...
Exposing Our Blind Spots
When you read your Bible, could you be wearing cultural blinders and not even know it? Today on Discover the Word, the team, and authors Randy Ri...
Misreading Scripture
With so many English translations available, it’s easy to forget that the Bible wasn’t written in our language. And today on Discover the Wor...
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, ...
Episode 06 - "Mental Health, Black Dignity, and the Importance of Humor" with Dr. Christina Edmondson
We need to take care of all the parts of who we are. That includes not just our physical selves, but our mental wellbeing too. Dr. Christina Edmo...
Episode 02 - "You Were Born For This" with Ambassador Sujay Johnson Cook
This episode teaches us to revel in the idea of "being born for this" and to take charge of our opportunities with a great conversation with amba...
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Most of us wrestle with prayer, especially when they seem to go unanswered. We offer the following pages to help you walk through the sometimes d...
Missing the Mission: Disciples in an Age of Abundance
By asking what the church can do for us, we treat church like a club membership, and we miss the mission God has given us. Our interaction with t...
Looking for God
I sat across from the psychiatrist simmering in angry disbelief. Just one week earlier he had compassionately and appropriately expressed comfort...
Jesus or Herod?: The Choice of the Magi
But once the new year rolls around, the Christmas trees end up brown and waiting for the garbage truck and the snow transforms from magical into ...
Going the Distance – Spiritual Disciplines
Understanding the comparison between running a race and our spiritual journey can provide insight into how we are designed spiritually.
God’s Invitation into Wholeness
When we broaden our definition of what it means for a person to be “perfect”—whole, complete, and ready to give and receive with open hands...
God Answers the Silly Prayers Too
Whenever the check engine light kicks on in my car, I’ll mutter a prayer that it’s just a leaky vacuum hose that’ll miraculously seal back ...
Fully Human and Fully Free
I can see those consequences already in my worldview as a child. Beneath the surface of my confident recitation of the formula (fully human + ful...
Feeling the Weight of Sin
Genesis 3 is probably too familiar. Serpent lies. Eve eats. Adam joins. God walks. Humans hide and blame. God curses and promises. God covers and...
How Can I Have the Right Self-Esteem
Some believe self-esteem and the Bible don’t mix. Others are convinced there is no better place to find self-respect and self-acceptance. The t...
The Forgiveness of God
To be human is to second-guess ourselves. Even the most confident among us struggle with guilt and doubt. Many of us go through life hoping we’...
God Reigns: Living Out the Kingdom of God
Most of us are well aware that Jesus was a different kind of king. That helps us explain why he was crucified, and why the last question his disc...
Clinging to Hope
Some of the biggest tempests come within our own families and among our closest friends. We have little control over other people’s actions and...
Art Is
We see God’s art in every freshly painted sunrise and sunset. We observe it in the elaborate intricacy and functional elegance of a single inse...
A Message for All Time – Understanding the Bible
When you realize that the Bible isn’t primarily about rules but relationships, your Scripture reading will be transformed.
