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“We are only guaranteed our last heartbeat.”

No one is promised tomorrow. This piece explores why the certainty of death should push us toward the certainty of Christ, not fear.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Peace Beyond Willpower: Trusting God’s Strength Daily

A wife's honest reflection on prayer, Scripture memorization, and why lasting peace depends on God's strength, not our own willpower.
JM Troppello -
Biblical Theology

What You Need to Hear: Are You Ready for God’s Truth?

Scripture doesn't exist to flatter us. It's meant to correct, convict, and heal - even when that message is hard to receive.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Young Men Returning to Faith: A Prodigal Son’s Story

A Gallup poll shows young American men returning to faith - and one writer's family history shows why that return matters so much.
Daryl Wilson -
Devotion

Faithful in Little Things: A Father’s Prayer for Grace

When we excuse small disobedience as harmless, we teach our hearts - and our children - that God's rules are negotiable. Today's devotional calls us back to faithful, wholehearted love.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

The power of the pulpit should come from the Lord and not from the charisma of the pastor.

Pulpit power isn't pastoral charisma - it's the Holy Spirit working through preached truth to convict, convert, and sanctify hearts.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Campus Evangelism: Three Disturbing Shifts in Students

Fifty years of campus ministry reveal three shifts: truth denial, Biblical illiteracy, and rising despair reshaping evangelism today.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

How the Holy Spirit’s Conviction Leads to Repentance

The Holy Spirit's conviction isn't condemnation - it's mercy, exposing sin so grace and repentance can do their healing work.
Randy DeVaul -
Biblical Theology

Biblical View of Productivity: Trusting God With Your Time

A quieter business day, a niece driven to VBS, and an answered prayer - one writer's reminder that God doesn't need your hustle to work.
JM Troppello -
Devotion

No Other Name: The Only Way We Can Be Saved

Like the ugly duckling who discovered he was a swan, some treat Jesus as a mere success story. Peter's bold words in Acts remind us salvation is found in Him alone.
Rich Holt -
Devotion

Walking the Two Tracks: Salvation and Sanctification in His Name

When Peter healed the lame man in Jesus' name, he revealed the full meaning behind Jesus Christ of Nazareth: God's salvation, humble origins, and the Anointed One who make our sanctification possible.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

Life is short and death is eternal.

Life passes quickly, but death opens onto eternity forever fixed. This piece considers what that means for how we live now.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Critical Thinking and the Bible: Does Scripture Hold Up?

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the conquest of Canaan, this piece takes on Christianity's toughest objections directly and unapologetically.
Stephanie Margos -
Spiritual Growth

What God Cannot Do – And Why That Makes Him Trustworthy

A look at what God cannot do - lie, sin, or stop being God - and why those limits are the foundation of unshakable trust.
Debra Hodges -
In the News

DSA Religious Socialists: A Coalition Built Without Christ

A socialist coalition invokes Dorothy Day, Malcolm X, and liberation theologians as religious cover, but their theology diverges sharply from Scripture.
Jeff Hilles -
Devotion

Give an Account: Walking in the Spirit Today

A CPA's insight on giving an account becomes a picture of walking in the Spirit, where one act of kindness reflects the King's work in us.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire's warning still stands: false belief always precedes cruelty, and only truth in Christ can guard the heart from both.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Love Is Love? Why God Alone Defines True Love

Scripture answers "love is love" by grounding love in God's character, revealed fully in Christ's sacrifice at the cross.
Phillip James -
Biblical Theology

True Contentment: Finding Joy in Christ Today, Not Someday

Contentment doesn't wait for better circumstances - Scripture shows it's a posture we learn now, in the middle of ordinary days.
Nora Gwen -
Biblical Theology

Kenosis Theology: What Philippians 2 Teaches About Christ

Kenotic theology claims Christ set aside His divine attributes to become human - here's why that idea doesn't hold up under Scripture.
Jeff Hilles -
Devotion

By What Power? Listening With a Sincere Heart

When we ask someone 'why,' are we truly listening, or waiting to explain how we'd do it better? This devotional from Acts 4 challenges believers to ask with a sincere, listening heart.
Rich Holt -
News Portal

Persecution Rises as Culture Redefines Faith

This week: Christians killed and kidnapped across continents, gender-care fraud exposed, AI's escalating risks, and debates over salvation, socialism, and Islam's growing influence in America.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Abortion Up to Birth: A Biblical Christian Response

Massachusetts now permits abortion up to birth. A Biblical Christian response to what Scripture says about life in the womb.
William Delmore -
In the News

Christianity and Division: What Truth Claims Reveal

Christianity's critics call it divisive, but every claim of objective truth divides people, Jesus included, and that isn't a flaw.
Zack Duncan -
In the News

Getting Right with God Before the Diagnosis Comes

A woman facing terminal cancer got baptized to 'get right with Him' - and her son followed her into the water that same day.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

Finish the Race Well: Faithfulness Over Comparison

Scripture pictures the Christian life as a race set before us individually, calling us to finish with faith rather than compare our pace to others.
Randy DeVaul -
Devotion

What We Stop Asking For, God Still Gives

A lame beggar outside the temple had given up hoping anyone could heal him, yet God gave him a whole new life anyway. What have you stopped asking for?
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Persistent Prayer: Why God Honors Those Who Keep Seeking Him

Scripture shows that persistent prayer isn't about wearing God down - it's about being slowly formed into people who trust God fully.
Randy DeVaul -
In the News

Forgiveness and Justice: A Gospel Answer to an Agnostic’s Anger

A store clerk's inverted cross sparked a real conversation about oppression, forgiveness, and whether God's justice can be trusted.
Debra Hodges -
In the News

Grace and Mercy: What They Actually Mean for Trusting God

A reflection on the difference between grace and mercy, and why trusting God with daily worries brings more peace than trying to control everything.
Nora Gwen -
In the News

Biblical Terms for Hell: Gehenna, Sheol, Hades, and the Lake of Fire

The Bible names Hell in several ways - Gehenna, Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and the Lake of Fire - each describing a distinct reality.
Stephanie Margos -
Devotion

Five Thousand Believed: When the Gospel Is Enough

Peter and John were arrested before they could finish preaching, yet the gospel still reached five thousand hearts. Their unfinished sermon still proves that God's word alone was enough to save that day.
Rich Holt -
In the News

Make Disciples: Why the Church Quits After the Beginning

A wedding charge to mentor newlyweds and the Great Commission's call to make disciples share the same overlooked ending we all need to fix.
Stephanie Margos -
Spiritual Growth

Praying Like Jabez: Trusting God More Than Our Requests

Why did Jabez ask God to enlarge his territory instead of erasing his painful past? A personal look at prayer, trust, and surrender.
Rina Schultz -
Biblical Theology

Guarding Your Peace: How Identity in Christ Shapes Healthy Boundaries

A Christian counselor explains why blocking an antagonistic critic and resting in her identity in Christ are both acts of faith, not retreat.
Nora Gwen -
In the News

Alive in Christ: How God Raises the Spiritually Dead

Before Christ we weren't wounded but dead - Ephesians 2 explains how God's grace alone brings the spiritually lifeless to life.
Randy DeVaul -
Devotion

From Taught to Learned: Living the Resurrection Truth

The apostles' bold proclamation of the resurrection unsettled religious leaders whose teaching was hollow. This devotional asks whether we've merely heard God's truth or actually learned to live by it.
Rich Holt -
Biblical Theology

Slave of Christ: Why Paul and James Chose That Title Over Sonship

Paul and James called themselves slaves of Christ, not just sons. Discover why that surrendered posture matters for believers today.
Ogo Cathern -
Biblical Theology

4 Bible Reading Mistakes That Quietly Undermine Your Study

Four everyday habits quietly derail Bible study - see why they trip up believers and how Scripture points back to Christ.
Stephanie Margos -
In the News

Why Church Attendance Is Declining Across America

Church membership in America has fallen below half the population for the first time in decades. What's really behind the drop?
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Power of Prayer: How It Moves God and Transforms Believers

Prayer accomplishes what human strength cannot - explore Biblical examples of God's power unleashed through faithful prayer.
Randy DeVaul -
Devotion

Confess the Compromise: Fighting the Enemy Within Today

The religious leaders fought Jesus with fierce resolve. Today's devotional asks us to turn that same intensity toward confessing and repenting of the compromises hiding in our own hearts.
Rich Holt -
In the News

Is God Morally Evil? What Scripture Says About His Justice

Atheists call God cruel for His judgments, but Scripture reveals a holy God who disciplines in justice and offers mercy through Christ.
Debra Hodges -
In the News

Entire Sanctification: Can Christians Stop Sinning on Earth?

A reader's question about 1 John 3:6 leads to what Scripture actually says about sin, sanctification, and Paul's own struggle.
Jeff Hilles -
Spiritual Growth

The Holy Spirit Indwelling: What Really Happens When Someone Is Saved

Heaven sings when a sinner turns to Christ, but the real proof of that new birth is a life that keeps quietly changing over time.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Bible Reading for Beginners: Where to Start and Why It Helps

New to the Bible? Discover its overarching story of redemption, where to begin reading, and simple resources to grow in faith today.
Stephanie Margos -
Devotion

When the Spirit Fell on Samaria: One Church, One Spirit

Acts 8 shows Peter and John delivering the Holy Spirit to new Samaritan believers, a divine sign that Jew and Samaritan would be one people in Christ's church.
Rich Holt -
News Portal

Gender Battles, AI Faith, and Fading Trust

This week: courts rein in gender mandates and revive Bible programs, believers embrace AI for ministry, and polls track eroding trust in the church amid a global fight for biblical truth.
Jeff Hilles -
Quotes

Swimming Against the Current: The Mark of Spiritual Life

A dead fish floats downstream with no resistance - a living faith swims against the culture's current, straining toward Christ every day.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

The Process of Sanctification: Growing Closer to God

Scripture treats salvation as a single decisive moment - but sanctification, the slow work of becoming like Christ, never stops.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Jesus and Hell: What He Actually Taught in Scripture

Jesus spoke about Hell often. This piece traces His words in Matthew and Mark to reveal exactly what He truly meant by Gehenna.
Stephanie Margos -
In the News

Biblical Complementarianism: A Countercultural Vision for Marriage

Complementarian marriage looks nothing like the culture's script - here's what Scripture actually teaches about husbands and wives.
Jeff Hilles -
Devotion

Seeing Our Faith Through a Stranger’s Eyes

A trip to the gas station becomes an unexpected mirror. This devotional asks whether our Sunday routines reveal genuine hunger for Jesus or just familiar comfort.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

“If you think one political party is right and the other party is evil, the problem with our politics is you.“

Tribal politics reveals a heart problem Scripture names as pride and idolatry-not which party you back, but who you worship.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Pray Without Ceasing: Building a Life of Continual Prayer

Persistence, listening, and abiding in Christ - this piece traces what it means to pray without ceasing in everyday life.
Randy DeVaul -
Spiritual Growth

Ashamed of Jesus: How Knowing God Ends the Fear of Man

A high school flagpole prayer, a hidden heart condition, and years of chasing approval - until grace exposed the real root of his shame.
Zack Duncan -
Spiritual Growth

Abraham’s Journey of Faith: Trusting God Through Life’s Uncertain Path

Abraham's imperfect obedience and Noah's costly faithfulness show that trusting God's pace matters more than reaching the destination.
Rina Schultz -
Devotion

Keeping Your Appointment for Refreshing in His Presence

We keep our calendars full of appointments for work, rest, and friends, yet how often do we schedule time to be refreshed in the Lord's presence?
Rich Holt -
Quotes

“It is not wrong to have such an intimate relationship with God that you even pray for a parking spot.”

God welcomes the small requests, not just the big ones. Intimacy with Him means bringing every detail, even a parking spot.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

Bible and Pagan Myths: Did Christianity Copy the Ancients?

A reader argues the Bible borrowed from pagan myths. Here's why those echoes point to shared truth planted in every heart, not theft.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Christians Confronting Antisemitism After Netanyahu’s Wake-Up Call

Israel's prime minister told American Christians to stop cowering and start standing against antisemitism before it reaches their own door.
I. M. Koen -
Spiritual Growth

Biblical Christianity: Returning to the Real Words of Jesus

Why Jesus called disciples, not admirers, and what it means to follow Him instead of merely defending His name in today's culture.
Joseph Jones -
Devotion

Turning Back: The Change of Mind God Truly Calls For

Peter called the crowd at the temple to repent and turn back to God. This devotional asks whether our own minds have truly been changed, or just our habits.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

There is nothing “beyond Religion.” Creation is the beginning, and eternity waits at the end.

No one steps outside God's story. From creation to eternity, every worldview answers to the same Author.
Jeff Hilles -
In the News

Following Jesus vs. Practicing Christianity: What Changes?

Many sincerely love Jesus, yet inherited habits and culture can blur His actual teaching - this piece calls readers back to the Gospels themselves.
Joseph Jones -
Devotion

The Storm That Never Lies: Trusting God’s Sure Warnings

A childhood tragedy and a modern storm alert both point to one truth: when God speaks of what's coming, it always comes to pass.
Rich Holt -
Quotes

If Unbelievers are right, oh well. If Biblical Christians are right, OH NO! Today is the day of Salvation (2 Cor. 6:2).  

Unbelief risks everything on a coin flip; Biblical faith rests on Christ's finished work. Today is still the day of grace.
Jeff Hilles -
Biblical Theology

God’s Promise to Answer Prayer: A Believer’s Bold Invitation

Every believer has the privilege of speaking to God - and His promise to answer, in His timing and way, never once fails.
Randy DeVaul -
In the News

God’s Sovereignty Over Satan: Why the Adversary Exists

Does God's sovereignty over Satan mean his existence serves a redemptive purpose? One writer works through the hard questions.
Nora Gwen -
In the News

Trusting Your Feelings Over Truth: A Fast-Food Ad’s Hidden Lesson

A McChicken ad's 'you deserve it' pitch exposes how modern marketing exploits feelings that Scripture says can't be trusted.
Zack Duncan -
Devotion

Calling Dibs on Jesus: The First of Firsts

Before we scramble to claim anything else as ours, remember that God claimed us first in Christ - turning our wicked ways into redemption and hope.
Rich Holt -
News Portal

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.
Jeff Hilles -
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.
Jaqueline Grandi -
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.
Jeff Hilles -
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.
Zack Duncan -
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.
Paul Johnson -
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.
Jeff Hilles -
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.
Randy DeVaul -
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.
Nora Gwen -