Bible study: Love one another
For many, Valentine’s Day has become a Hallmark holiday filled with sappy sentiment and red hearts . . . everywhere! The exact details of the original St. Valentine are a…
For many, Valentine’s Day has become a Hallmark holiday filled with sappy sentiment and red hearts . . . everywhere! The exact details of the original St. Valentine are a…
The First Commandment states: “You shall have no other gods.” Martin Luther’s explanation says, “We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.” This means that anything we…
God's providence means that everything happens according to God’s design (even permitting evil to work for the good of his people). It also refers to what God actually does in…
Christ is coming! That was the Old Testament believers’ great hope. He did come to lowly crib and cross to save the world. Christ is coming! That is the New…
The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about “cheap grace.” By cheap grace, he meant that too many preach forgiveness without repentance and grace without the cross. In other words, people…
From Jesus comes an example of how to pray. On the mountaintops and in the Garden of Gethsemane, he prayed for strength to do his Father’s will. From Jesus also…
The parable of the talents appears in a section of Scripture where Jesus is describing the end times. Though an exact value of a talent is difficult to calculate with…
A blueprint for living out our life of faith Markings are meaningful. We’ve learned to look for them when making purchases of items like clothing or electrical appliances. Did you…
A blueprint for living out our life of faith What are our chief concerns in life? Eternal salvation or earthly security? Christ’s righteousness or our own real estate? Peace or…