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Fireside Friday: The Saloon Keeper’s Children

Fireside Friday: The Saloon Keeper’s Children

Here’s a story from the early days of D.L. Moody’s ministry after he moved to Chicago. But like many of his stories, Moody’s not the hero. It’s a little boy from the Sunday School that he asked to to accompany him in bringing the gospel to a roomful of infidels and...

Fireside Friday: Losing Faith in Evolution

Fireside Friday: Losing Faith in Evolution

Life is considerably less haphazard than it appears. Do you think the people you “bump into” in a given day are interchangeable bits with billions of other bits? Or is there Someone mysteriously working behind the scenes? When a seemingly accidental conversation is...

Through-the-Bible Thursday: JUDE

Through-the-Bible Thursday: JUDE

Through-the-Bible Thursday: JUDE (4.5 mins) — The short letter by Jude is called a “general" epistle because it was not written to any particular person or church, but to believers at large. The purpose of the epistle is two-fold: to exhort the Christians to continue...

Mini-Message Monday: The “Art” of God’s Grace

Mini-Message Monday: The “Art” of God’s Grace

Mini-Message Monday: The "Art" of God's Grace (3.5 mins) — Child of God, do you feel like your past has wrecked your future? Remember that God is the Divine Artist who is able to take the blots of past failure and — mixed with His grace — make something beautiful of...

Through-the-Bible Thursday: PETER’S TWO EPISTLES

Through-the-Bible Thursday: PETER’S TWO EPISTLES

Through-the-Bible Thursday: PETER'S TWO EPISTLES (4.5 mins) — "Poor Peter," the preachers often say, referencing his very frequent—and very public—mistakes. Interestingly the Master allowed His disciples the space to be wrong, though never to do wrong. But here are...

Mini-Message Monday: Quarantined with God

Mini-Message Monday: Quarantined with God

Mini-Message Monday: Quarantined with God (1.5 mins) — Dear Christian, you may be required to self-isolate from others — but not from God! In fact, what an opportunity to get alone in "the secret place", the place where God does all His most important work in our...

Fireside Friday: Bold Faith

Fireside Friday: Bold Faith

Across Russia in the late 1800s, the largest land mass on the planet, the Spirit of God was at work. Among the lower classes, the Stundists were active. German settlers around Odessa were forbidden to evangelize their Russian farm hands, but their evening stund, or...

Through-the-Bible Thursday: JAMES

Through-the-Bible Thursday: JAMES

Through-the-Bible Thursday: JAMES (4 mins) — The Epistle by James might well be called a How-to Handbook on Holiness. To the believers of Galatia, Paul called James (along with Peter and John) “pillars" of the church. The Greek for “pillar" comes from a word meaning...

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