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Rising Persecution and a Church in Decline

This week: deadly attacks on Nigerian Christians, Iran's crackdown on converts, AI's grip on faith and society, abortion battles, and a shifting religious landscape across the West.
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Quotes

Science asks more questions over time than it answers. God answers it all.

Science keeps generating fresh mysteries with each new discovery, but only God offers complete, certain, and eternal answers to every question.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

The Cycle of Sin and Repentance Israel Never Broke

An author's honest confession of recurring sin opens a look at Judges 2 - and asks whether regret without change is real repentance.
Debra Hodges -
Spiritual Growth

Three Views of Salvation: Justification, Sanctification, Glorification

Justification, sanctification, and glorification show how one act of salvation unfolds across a lifetime and reaches into eternity.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Domestic Violence in the Church: Why Pastors Must Break Their Silence

Millions suffer domestic abuse in silence while churches avoid the subject - here's why safety must come before reconciliation.
Tony Valencia -
Devotion

Navigating Life’s Transitions Without Losing Christ

This devotional considers the subtle spiritual transitions that can quietly pull us away from Christ if we aren't watchful.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

Prayer is the greatest expression of faith because it takes our efforts offline. 

Prayer proves we've stopped relying on our own strength and started trusting God with what we cannot control ourselves at all.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Same God? Why the Bible Says Christianity and Islam Diverge

A Biblical look at why Christianity and Islam, despite shared monotheism, describe a fundamentally different God and path to salvation.
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In the News

AI and Human Dignity: Why Machines Can’t Define Your Worth

Does AI threaten human relevance? A believer's response to fears that machines could replace the worth only God can give us.
Debra Hodges -
Biblical Theology

Did Jesus Know He Was Divine as a Child? What Scripture Says

Scripture shows Jesus grasped His divine sonship by age twelve, but the Bible never states when that awareness first began.
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Devotion

When Expectations Become Premeditated Resentments

Our expectations of others can quietly breed resentment, but Scripture calls us to trade magical thinking for trust in Jesus' faithful love.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

Many who go down the road of “deconstruction” never make the turn toward ”reconstruction”, and sadly fall off the edge.

Deconstructing faith without rebuilding on Christ leaves people spiritually homeless, exposed to doubt, despair, and unbelief.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Communion with God Through Prayer: Why We Were Made to Talk with Him

Biblical prayer is more than asking for things; it's listening, transformation, and walking daily in step with God's purposes.
Randy DeVaul -
Biblical Theology

Christian Hypocrisy and the Myth of Works-Based Salvation

The lost often call Christians hypocrites because they assume salvation must be earned—but the Bible insists it never was, and never could be.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Becoming a Christian: Three Questions Every Seeker Must Answer

Three simple, honest questions can guide anyone weighing the claims of Christ toward a real, life-changing decision to follow Him.
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Devotion

Good News from Samaria: Trading Negativity for God’s Truth

Research shows we share bad news faster than good. This devotional points believers back to Acts 8, urging us to spread God's good news instead and start a positivity bias of our own.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Why Rome Crucified Jesus: History, Sedition, and the Cross’s Meaning

Rome executed people for treason, not theology—so what did the charge above Jesus's head reveal about why He really died?
Joseph Jones -
Spiritual Growth

Filled with the Holy Spirit: A Salvation Event and a Daily Process

Salvation seals you with the Holy Spirit permanently, but staying filled takes prayer, fellowship, and Scripture - or the leak wins.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

AI Bible Study: A Practical Method for Deeper Scripture Time

See how one writer turns AI-generated summaries into a repeatable Bible study rhythm - always tested against Scripture and the Spirit.
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In the News

Biblical Discernment: God’s Design vs. a Fallen World’s Rewrite

A Biblical case for testing what we call God's will, from colonized minds to systems that reward crime dressed in a suit.
Joseph Jones -
Devotion

One Sin, Endless Grace: Being Amazed by God’s Mercy

Adam fell only once in 930 years, yet that single sin plunged all creation into ruin. This devotional marvels at how much greater God's grace is than our sin.
Rich Holt -
Spiritual Growth

The Hypostatic Union: Why Jesus Is Fully God and Fully Man

A recent conversation about Jesus' two natures is a reminder that the hypostatic union isn't hairsplitting theology - it's the ground of salvation.
Jeff Hilles -
Devotion

Men and Women Alike: One Grace, One Savior

Statistics show men and women are, on average, very different. Yet Acts 8:12 shows the gospel makes no distinction. Discover how God's grace covers the gap between the sexes.
Rich Holt -
News Portal

When Culture Rewrites the Church’s Confession

From abortion pill fights and gender warning labels to AI deception, pulpit compromise, and rising persecution, this week tests whether the church will hold Scripture or bend to the culture around it.
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Quotes

Tears wiped away in Heaven (Rev. 21:4) will be partly due to how we squandered the power of prayer on earth.

Heaven's tears may trace to prayers we left unprayed. This quote confronts how lightly we treat intercession's real power.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Chosen Before Creation: Your Identity in Ephesians 1’s Gospel of Grace

Before creation, God chose you - not for performance, but for love. Discover the gospel of adoption, redemption, and grace in Ephesians 1.
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In the News

AI: The Trojan Horse Threatening the Next Generation

Artificial intelligence promises convenience and connection, but Scripture warns us to test what looks like a gift before we trust it.
Jeff Hilles -
Devotion

Choosing Christ Over the Comfortable Wrong Door

A game show dilemma and a first-century crowd's fatal choice both reveal the same temptation: settling for the familiar over the right and better path God has set in plain view.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

Sometimes God answers our prayers by not answering our requests.

God sometimes answers prayer by saying no. His silence is not absence; it is often His deeper mercy at work in our lives.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Relationship Evangelism Is Fading in Our Restless, Mobile World

Moving every few years feels normal now, but it's cutting off the long, slow friendships God has always used to draw people to Himself.
William Delmore -
Biblical Theology

Fruitfulness in Exile: How God Grew Joseph’s Family in Egypt

Asenath's quiet story shows how God brings fruitfulness in unfamiliar places, even in exile, when we least expect to find it.
Marie Grace, PhD -
In the News

Unequally Yoked Marriage: One Woman’s Costly Lesson in Faith

One woman's testimony on the grief of a spiritually divided marriage - and the hope of Christ's redemption after divorce.
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Devotion

Truly Astonished: Wonder at the God Who Saves

Acts 8:9 introduces a magician chasing wonder through illusion. This devotional turns our gaze to the far greater astonishment of a Savior who defeated death and delights in our fellowship with Him.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

Leaving a Bible believing church full of sinners just because of sin, is a sin.

Every congregation is full of sinners. Walking away from one over that fact can itself be a sin against grace.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Easy-Believism and the Sin of Doing Nothing (James 4:17)

Knowing the right thing and not doing it isn't a minor lapse — James calls it sin. A hard look at the gap between belief and obedience.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Evil Entering Heaven: The Biblical Roots of Lucifer’s Rebellion

Why did a perfect Heaven give rise to rebellion? This look at Lucifer's fall exposes pride as sin's oldest, most familiar disguise.
Joseph Jones -
Spiritual Growth

God’s Plan for Your Life: Trusting His Purpose in All Things

Genesis, a wedding at Cana, and even a Pacific tsunami point to one truth: nothing in your life is left to chance or accident.
Rina Schultz -
Devotion

Tell Us More: Why God’s Word Still Shapes Us Today

Most of us can't recall a single line from last Sunday's sermon, yet God still uses His word to quietly reshape our hearts over time.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

The 3 Little Pigs – America no longer lives in a house of bricks (2 Sam. 22:2); but of straw (1 Cor. 3:11-13) and...

America's cultural foundation has shifted from rock to straw, leaving false teachersu2014the wolvesu2014free to enter unchecked.
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In the News

Prosperity Gospel Concerns and the Tommie Zito College Plan

A new Christian college is planned for 2027, but with no published Statement of Faith, believers should test its teaching against God's Word.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Trusting God in Impossible Situations at the Red Sea

Discover how Israel's seemingly hopeless trap at the Red Sea was actually God's plan to display His glory in impossible circumstances.
I. M. Koen -
Spiritual Growth

Trusting God Through Loss and Letting Go of What Remains

A believer's honest reflection on grief, letting go of what's lost, and trusting God when Scripture's promises feel distant.
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Devotion

Standing Firm When Pressure Tests Your Decision

Pilate had already decided to release Jesus - until pressure changed his mind. This devotional asks what happens when your convictions are tested by opposition.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Spiritual Awakening: Grace Opens Our Eyes to God’s Provision

A devotional on Proverbs 20:13, exploring how spiritual exhaustion numbs the soul and how God's grace gently restores sight to His waiting mercy.
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In the News

Biblical Christianity in America Is in Crisis: The Data

New research reveals most American Christians rarely live out Biblical truth—here's what Scripture calls us to do instead.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Jericho Destruction Dating: Garstang, Kenyon & Wood

Garstang, Kenyon, and Wood each dated Jericho's fiery destruction differently, and the debate still shapes whether Joshua's conquest is history.
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In the News

Abram’s Trained Servants: How God Prepares Ordinary People for Battle

Abram's 318 trained servants routed an army that beat five kings—a picture of how God prepares ordinary believers before the crisis ever comes.
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Devotion

The Joy That Outlasts Every Victory Parade

When teams win championships, whole cities celebrate for a moment. Acts 8:8 points us to a deeper joy - one rooted in salvation and lasting because it comes from God, not from earthly triumphs.
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News Portal

Contending for Truth in a Confused Age

This week: Idaho's abortion vote, transgender surgery battles, Christians barred and acquitted abroad, AI's rising authority, and the enduring pull of the Gospel amid cultural drift.
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Quotes

“OT offered insight into our sinful reality. Jesus is the example of our desired morality.”

The Old Testament diagnoses our sin; Christ does more than model virtue— He atones for it and empowers new obedience through His Spirit.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Faith Deconstruction vs. Rebuilding on Christ the Rock

Deconstructing faith may feel honest, but Scripture calls us to rebuild on Christ, the one unshakable foundation for life.
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In the News

Witchtok Tarot Star Alex Ashcroft Converts, Finds Freedom in Christ

A Witchtok tarot star with a million followers deleted her occult content and gave her life to Jesus Christ after a year of quiet searching.
Zack Duncan -
Spiritual Growth

Son of Man Miracles: Did Jesus Work Wonders as God or Man?

A reflection on whether Jesus performed His miracles as God or as a man wholly dependent on His Father, and what that means for believers today.
Klaus Meyer -
Devotion

Cling to Jesus With Both Hands and Let Go of the Rest

Like a child who refuses to let go of his cart, we grip old, unseen habits far too tightly. This devotional calls us to actively cling to Jesus and release everything else.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

You can’t pack all Christian theology into one verse, so don’t draw yours from one.

The author warns against building doctrine on a single verse: true theology weighs the whole of Scripture, not one line pulled from context.
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In the News

Public Moral Witness: Why Christian Silence Is Never Neutral

Moral silence in the public square is never truly neutral. It simply hands cultural influence to someone else, this essay argues.
Marie Grace, PhD -
Spiritual Growth

Finding Belonging in Church: A Child’s Prayer Under a Pew

A lonely second grader ducks into an empty church to escape the heat and discovers, beneath a wooden pew, that God had been waiting.
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In the News

Law of Attraction Deception Creeping Into Christian Churches

A leadership bestseller echoes the Law of Attraction, a New Age belief now creeping into churches disguised as Biblical vision-casting.
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Devotion

Silencing the Loud Voice of the Unclean Spirit

It is always the unclean spirits that cry out with a loud voice. When your spirit is calm, do the real work of examination and confession, and deepen your relationship with Jesus.
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Quotes

“It behooves Christians to keep close to the word of God, and in everything to seek the teaching of the Holy Spirit.” 

Matthew Henry reminds believers that true guidance comes only when Scripture and the Holy Spirit's teaching are held together, never apart.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Church Spending Priorities: Why Pastors Get Served Before the Poor

A church finance committee insider noticed pastors receive quick help while struggling members wait, and asks why that gap exists.
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In the News

Self-Esteem Struggles: Why God Still Uses the Unqualified

Moses, Gideon, and Saul all felt unqualified, yet God called them anyway - and He calls you the same way, regardless of your past.
Rina Schultz -
Spiritual Growth

Prosperity Gospel Tithing: When Blessing Isn’t a Formula

A tithing testimony wrestles with prosperity-gospel fear: does faithful giving guarantee blessing, or is trust bigger than a ledger?
Joseph Jones -
Devotion

Signs, Wonders, and the Simple Word of God

Philip drew crowds in Samaria with genuine signs while Simon the magician dazzled them with tricks. When our own prayers for healing go unanswered, can we still pay attention to what God is saying?
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Quotes

The Bible remains inerrant, even when the clay doesn’t understand what the Potter is saying to us (Isaiah. 64:8).

Scripture stays fully inerrant even when we, like clay before the Potter, can't grasp what God is doing or saying to us today.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Senior Ministry Anniversary Shows How to Remember God’s Faithfulness

A two-year ministry milestone becomes a model for remembering God's faithfulness, rejoicing in His work, and renewing hope.
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In the News

Trusting God’s Presence When the Questions Never Get Answered

A father reflects on how mature faith slowly trades endless questions for the deeper comfort of simply resting in God's presence.
I. M. Koen -
Spiritual Growth

Praying for Healing First: Lessons from Asa and Ahaziah (Part 2 of 2)

A believer wrestles with Jesus' promise to answer prayer, exploring what Asa and Ahaziah teach about seeking God before doctors.
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Devotion

Philip and the Blessing of the Short Straw in Samaria

Philip carried the gospel into Samaria, the region Jews avoided. What looked like the short end of the stick was actually the center of Christ's plan. Sometimes drawing the short straw is the best thing you could do.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Rest in Christ: When Self-Reflection Cannot Carry the Weary Soul

A reflection on how self-examination, though good, must lead us to Christ's rest rather than becoming an endless inward search.
Marie Grace, PhD -
Spiritual Growth

Asking in Jesus’ Name: What He Really Promised in Prayer (Part 1 of 2)

After a health scare, this writer examines Jesus' fivefold promise to answer prayer asked in His name - and what it truly requires.
Paul Johnson -
News Portal

Why We Need God, and Why It Must Be the God of the Bible

The author makes a personal, Scripture-grounded case for why we need God, why He must be the God of the Bible, and how to pray.
Debra Hodges -
Devotion

On That Day: How God Turned Persecution Into the Gospel’s March

Every generation has its 'on that day' moment. When persecution scattered the early church, God used what was evil to spread the message of salvation. Wherever He sends you, change your piece of the world.
Rich Holt -
News Portal

Faith Under Fire in Courts, Culture, and Congress

This week: Supreme Court cases on faith and gender, pregnancy centers and therapists win free speech battles, sobering worldview surveys, and debates over America's Christian founding.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Why Suffering Isn’t Proof of Holiness in the Christian Life

A pulpit line equating constant hardship with holiness raises a hard question about what Jesus actually promised His people.
Joseph Jones -
Biblical Theology

God Does Not Change: Why His Unchanging Nature Comforts Us

Malachi 3:6 reminds believers that God's unchanging character is why His people are never consumed, whatever the day brings.
Klaus Meyer -
In the News

Jericho Archaeology and the Debate Over Biblical History

A century of archaeology at Jericho has become a flashpoint in the long debate over whether Joshua's Conquest is history or legend.
Zack Duncan -
Devotion

The Wish No Man Could Grant: From Lame to Leaping

Make-A-Wish grants the impossible dreams of dying children, but the truest wish is a spiritually dead sinner raised to new life. Like the lame man who leapt into the temple, the redeemed can now know, please, and praise God.
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In the News

Transhumanism, Digital IDs, and the Coming Global Beast System

From brain-computer interfaces to central bank digital currencies and the agendas of global organizations, this piece traces how the modern drive to exalt human power echoes the end-times system Scripture warned us about.
Debra Hodges -
Biblical Theology

Spiritual Abuse in the Church: When Anointing Hides Domestic Violence

A firsthand account of a worship leader's abuse and the years of silence a congregation kept to protect his gift and platform.
Joseph Jones -
In the News

Third Temple Prophecy: Why Forcing God’s Hand Is Not Faith

A pastor's call to bomb Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock raises a deeper question: should believers force God's prophetic timing?
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Devotion

They Beg for Mercy, but Only from God: Stephen’s Knees

Some English soldiers saw the Scots kneel and thought they begged for mercy. But they knelt to God alone. So did Stephen, echoing his Savior's plea even as the stones fell.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Overcoming Discontentment: Trusting God When Prayers Go Unanswered

When prayers go unanswered, discontent creeps in fast. This writer traces that spiral - and the gratitude that leads back to God.
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Spiritual Growth

Shiphrah and Puah: The Midwives Who Feared God, Not Pharaoh

When Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys killed, two midwives quietly refused - and changed the course of redemptive history. Shiphrah and Puah's story asks every reader the same question: what do you fear most?
I. M. Koen -
Spiritual Growth

God’s Grace for Sinners: Why Paul’s Dark Past Proved His Mercy

Paul once hunted Christians for a living, yet God chose him to help write much of the New Testament. This piece traces that same pattern through Moses, David, and Peter, and asks what it means for the worst chapter of your own story.
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Devotion

Stephen’s Last Words: Lord Jesus, Receive My Spirit

As the stones rained down, Stephen looked up past the angry scowls and beckoned the risen Christ to receive him. His final seconds held the very peace we all long for. It doesn't require dying by stones, but it does require dying to self.
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Quotes

“The God of Your Own Making Will Never Confront Your Sin”

We all want a god who blesses what we already want. Scripture describes something else entirely: a God who confronts sin because He loves us too much to leave us there.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Sacrificial Giving as Faith: The Seed That Precedes Breakthrough

Salvation cannot be purchased and God's love is freely given, yet Scripture repeatedly shows faith that moves before the breakthrough. A reflection on giving as trust, not transaction.
Joseph Jones -
Spiritual Growth

Kadosh Holiness: The Sermon on the Mount’s Hardest Call

I.M. walks through the uncomfortable parts of the Sermon on the Mount - the calls to reconcile, purify, and surrender - and asks what it means to become kadosh: set apart for God.
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Devotion

The Author of Life Rewrites Every Young Saul Incident

At Stephen's stoning, Luke pauses to name a young onlooker named Saul. Isn't it great that our full story, with all its furious moments and failings, has been rewritten by the Author of life and rebirth?
Rich Holt -
Spiritual Growth

Faith in Action: How a Roadside Meeting Changed Two Lives

A chaplain stops to help a disabled homeless man and discovers that one small act of kindness can grow into friendship, faith, and lasting hope.
Andrew Ross -
In the News

Citizens of Heaven: Living Faithfully in Two Kingdoms Today

A July 4th reflection on living faithfully as citizens of America now while holding fast to our true, eternal citizenship in Heaven.
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In the News

The Quiet Damage of Good People Who Aren’t Paying Attention

A sobering meditation on the accumulated harm of small, careless moments — the laugh, the unanswered message, the post — and the six words that can still turn the count the other way while the window remains open.
Joseph Jones -
Devotion

So He Gave Them His Attention: What God Wants in Return

God gives us His attention, expecting to receive something from us, not just something, but everything. Today, give Him your whole heart in return.
Rich Holt -
News Portal

Religious Liberty, Rulings, and Cultural Drift

This week: a landmark ruling on girls' sports, Iran seizes a church, DOJ's religious liberty report, false prophets, AI's spiritual dangers, and America's Biblical roots examined.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

The Sermon on the Mount’s Hardest Call: Become Kadosh

The Beatitudes comfort us, but Jesus meant the Sermon on the Mount to expose us. A look at the verses we skip and the holiness God is after.
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In the News

Why Gen Z Leaves the Church but Keeps the Faith

A young writer reflects on why so many of his generation walk away from organized religion while holding tightly to belief in something transcendent - and what the Church may still hold that no forest walk can replace.
Joseph Jones -
Devotion

When Compromise Quietly Claims the Throne of Your Heart

Adonijah claimed David's throne while the king slept, and subtle compromise can do the same to our hearts. Now is the time to examine where we are heading and whether it still fits His plan.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Run Lighter: How Grace Frees Us to Lay Down Our Burdens

Regret and failure can become burdens we mistake for our name. Through Hebrews 12 and the restoration of Peter, grace does not deny the weight but teaches us how to release it, so we can run lighter.
Marie Grace, PhD -
Spiritual Growth

Refined to Reflect Christ: How God Uses Trials

God uses trials, not to harm us, but to refine His children into the likeness of Christ. Every test becomes a divine tool to shape us for eternity and to reflect Jesus to a watching world.
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In the News

Recovering Empathy: Seeing One Another’s Pain in a Numb Age

We live in the most connected age in history, yet many have never felt more alone. This reflection asks whether we have lost the art of entering another person's pain, and points toward the presence that begins to heal it.
Anne Hope -
Devotion

Have Ears to Hear: Listening as Food for the Soul

Acts 7 shows men who stopped their ears against the truth. Scripture honors those who listened and heeded. Our entire walk with God rests on our willingness to keep quiet and hear His Word.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

God’s Nearness in the Hospital Room When Fear Presses In

Marie writes from a hospital bed about the moment fear pressed in and God drew near—not with explanations, but with the quiet promise that He was not yet finished.
Marie Grace, PhD -