DiAne Gates

If I were going to make a dress, wouldn’t I be foolish to begin without a pattern? Or if I were going to serve a sponge cake with a chocolate...

The woman gulped, slid her fingers to the edge of the vessel and dropped in two copper coins. Her eye caught a young Jewish man motioning his...

The tithe is not a suggestion. Scripture clearly states the tithe was the point of beginning with Ancient Israel and is still that same starting...

Whether you hold a pre-trib, mid-trib, or whatever rapture point of view, 1,923 years ago God gave these last words to believers, so that we would...

Why would God preserved life stories of bad girls in the Bible? Perhaps to illustrate “… that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have...

If you’ve lost your mom or your child, I’m sure you’d like to blot this date from your calendar. But would that do any good? It certainly wouldn’t...

In the span of my generation, what sounded like an impossibility in The Book of the Revelation, today’s technology has made a reality.

Just because we see gold lettering on a black cover saying Holy Bible doesn’t mean what’s inside every just-off-the-press, new translation is the...

God’s Word tells the good, the bad, and the ugly concerning events and people. Nobody can predict the impact that these harsh reality stories might...

Growing up, we are rarely aware of moments when our spiritual, emotional, and mental learning curve soars because of someone’s actions or reactions...

Love is built in relationships. Relationships take time. And most of us have a better relationship with the television screen in our front room...

In this age of exploding technology, it is imperative believers understand the eternal trajectory of God’s Truth versus the blinding storm of lies,...

One amazing thing about our God is that if you take one step toward Him, even with a flawed spirit, you’ll find His arms open wide. And that...

God tells us we are to instruct and rebuke, not with our words—with His Word.

Don’t smother them with questions, Scripture quotes, devotional materials, or books on healing from grief. It’s yet not the time.

I wondered how many others, just like me, came to the sanctuary each Sunday morning with heavy hearts. Hearts full of grief and gloom, and yet I’m...

Everywhere you turn danger lurks. While this is nothing new, according to the Book of Jude, we seem to have developed an attitude of false security...

Rather than seeking the wisdom of God’s Word, we are all prone to capture phrases from those in the trenches who share what they perceive their...