Spiritual Life Archives

Discouragement, although a tool of the enemy, is also an instrument of God, used to shape us and bring us into all that He has for us. Through...

How God’s Word Can Change You...for Good!

By removing eternal risk, Christ calls his people to continual temporal risk. When the threat of death becomes a door to paradise the final barrier...

Do we really need to honor fathers, or is this a slightly less commercially successful holiday?

Ultimately, all our earthly heroes fail us. Even fathers are only human. And knowing this, God took on flesh and came to us as a fully man, fully...

Oprah’s mantra, "find your own spirit," has become the rally cry of many Americans. These words might seem harmless to you, even encouraging and...

The distributed church is a new concept. Or, is it? Maybe this is the way it was always meant to be, rather than church buildings housing groups of...

The little letter of Jude teaches us something about the value of learning history. This is not the main point of the letter. But it is striking.

Graduates: If you're going to hold on to the enthusiasm you have for life today, if you're going to hold on to the dreams and delight of today,...

Few will argue that online Bible study is convenient. Devices such as Palm Bibles and interactive DVDs make Scripture more accessible than ever....

Sometime over the last few years, a quiet transition took place in my life as a woman-I became invisible. You may already know what I'm talking...

How God uses trials in your life for your good

One of the most difficult things in life is to stay encouraged. The stuff that keeps us going continually leaks out. It seems we are so fragile,...

Millions are numb to hope because of the God-belittling things they have done and how ugly they have become. They don’t lift lofty arguments...