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Produced for the North American Week of Prayer.

Oh, the saving power of Jesus the Lord, seen in two bookend stories from the Gospel by Luke! One tells of a devout man seeing God’s salvation in the Babe, just 40 days old, whom he held in his arms. At the other end of the book, a depraved man saw God’s salvation in a...

There I was, sitting in a 1955 Oldsmobile by the roadside on the Mississippi coast, classic cars everywhere. Why did the two retired policemen from Detroit pick my car to ask a ride? Though I lived in the south, the car had a historic 1955 license tag from Michigan,...

Through-the-Bible Thursday: ISAIAH (4 mins) — Here is the first of the major prophets we will consider. Isaiah wrote in dark and difficult days. Evil and idolatry abounded and God's people were deaf to Isaiah's warnings of coming judgment on both Israel and Judah....

Paul said God had tried everything to win the Jews--prophets who wept, shouted, wrote, and acted out God's love. He gave them covenants, priests, judges, His Son, His Spirit, and Word. What more could He do? It seems they were only motivated by jealousy. That's why...

Mini-Message Monday: Mirror, Mirror... These next two minutes will help you reflect on a very special kind of Mirror.

It was just a slip of paper that fell at the bookbinder's feet. But the timing could not have been better. And the message it bore could just as well have floated directly down from heaven.

A “proverb” is a sermon in a sentence, a short, compact statement describing human choices that have lasting consequences. The contrasts are drawn in black and white. The objective: “to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion” (1:4)....