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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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.
Rina Schultz -

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 -

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.
Zack Duncan -

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 -

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.
Anne Hope -

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 -

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.
Paul Johnson -

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 -