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What we eat doesn't only affect our health. It affects our breath! What is our spiritual breath like these days?

When our minds are confused and our hearts overwhelmed, the best thing to do is follow Habakkuk’s example: talk it over with the Lord. Habakkuk wasn’t sure what concerned him more—that God at first didn’t seem to be doing anything about the evil all around, or that He...

Lot thought he could influence Sodom by moving in and trying to work within the system. But pretty soon, Sodom had moved into his family. And when he did warn them of God’s judgment, they thought he was joking. Who had the real influence with Sodom? The pilgrim under...

Joseph Alexander could have been thinking about the prophecy of Nahum when he wrote: “There is a line, by us unseen, that crosses every path, The hidden boundary between God’s patience and His wrath.” In the darkest days of wicked King Manasseh’s rule, Nahum was given...

Fireside Friday: This story is given in tribute to the untold millions of God’s people who rise each morning in relative obscurity, labor faithfully through the day, and return home each evening, tired and often poorly recompensed for their work on earth. They eat a...

It was a pivot point in Israel’s history. And, as Jesus said, it’s still true: the difference between failure and success, between your life standing or crumbling in the storm, comes down to just one thing.

Mini-Message Monday: Want to know what great faith looks like? Christ only used the term twice, and both about Gentiles. This Syro-Phoenician woman says all the satisfaction in this world is nothing compared to one crumb of God's bounty. And the Lord Jesus said that...

Most of God’s people are ordinary folk. You know, fishermen, shepherds, carpenters and the like. We don’t mix well with the upper crust. But every once in a while, like this story from my childhood, we get a little insight into that world and it reminds us that we...

The book of Micah, written more than seven centuries before Christ, is a study in contrasts. In a culture, then as now, where moral rottenness went right to the bones, Micah calls people to "do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” He bravely...

The days of King Jeroboam II were prosperous but it is the commentary of God that "he did evil in the eyes of the Lord." Against this tide of iniquity was sent Jonah from Gath Hepher who "spoke the word of the Lord." But it is not for this the prophet is remembered....