Signs of Growing Faith In the soil in plastic cups in mid-March, I plant tiny tomato seeds. They germinate and grow under lights in my...

How God Responds to Faith A rheostat changes the flow of electric current by increasing or decreasing resistance to its flow. That...

Faith Comes from God Where does faith originate? Do our hearts generate it? Is it some innate instinct that turns us toward something...

Faith occupies a preeminent place in the Bible. Without it, pleasing God is impossible (Hebrews 11:6). Exploring faith’s dimensions helps...

Strained relationships with others stress me. A fellow pastor was upset with me about fifteen years ago. He didn’t tell me, but others...

The Hopi are Native Americans who live mostly in Arizona. At ten years old, children are taught how Hopi spiritual life relates to their...

A study revealed that 74 percent of Americans value their experiences more than material things.1 More things don’t make them happier,...

This isn’t a story about Max, a rescued Saint Bernard, saving a desperate man buried in an avalanche. It’s about people like us who have...

Foundation-shaking beliefs require a radical life change. The belief that COVID-19 seriously threatened human life motivated millions of...

Seeing that ministry to others is making a difference renews our energy and motivation to serve. But what happens when such evidence is...

Most of us have stolen something. If nothing else, we’ve pilfered God’s honor and glory. “All honor and glory to God  forever and ever!...

The prince of darkness vice grips the souls of billions of people through the superstructure of darkness and echoes of darkness. Let’s...

Has someone you trusted betrayed you? It hurts worse than a bee sting. It puts your heart through a meat grinder. Perhaps it was an...

Jesus is the bright morning star (Revelation 22:16). He came to light the earth. His arrival bathed everything in a penetrating, holy...

I swung a rubber hose with a stick inside it to get the job done. I was thinning peaches during hot summer afternoons at the orchard...

The round goby is an invasive fish species first introduced into the Great Lakes in 1990 from ship ballast water. Twelve years later, their estimated population in the Western Basin of Lake Erie alone was 9.9 billion.1  Spiritual multiplication is more difficult than the round goby’s dramatic expansion. They had little environmental resistance to their population explosion. We have stout opposition from the world system, our sinful nature, and the devil. Nevertheless, we can

In my experience, most professing American Christians are more like the Dead Sea than Lake Superior—inflow without outflow. The Dead...

To fulfill God’s purpose for our lives, we must make decisions based on what is best for the long haul . Repeatedly asking that question...

God’s creation isn’t haphazard. Behind it is an unimaginably great genius—God and His wisdom principles. He designed every species on earth to efficiently reproduce after its kind while contributing to the well-being of the whole system. We can apply God’s wisdom principles to our lives and our kingdom-building assignments. They are resources to fulfill our purpose of reproducing disciples. God commands the plant and animal kingdoms and human beings to multiply after their ki

My mother’s first cousin Ruth and her brother Arthur were genetically more similar to her than most first cousins. They were the children...