Practical Applications Archives

Jesus healed, fed, forgave, comforted, preached, raised, delivered, and fed some more. Is it any wonder that Jesus told the disciples to come away...

Discontent? The problem may be with your soul instead of your circumstances.

As a child, it is important to obey your parents. But when we get older and move from childhood to womanhood, do we still have to obey?

When I speak to women about God as our Heavenly Father, there are often women in the audience who later tell me, “I didn’t know what it was like to...

Fifty things every believer should do before Heaven.

What is stopping you today from having an intimate prayer life?

I remember feeling the full weight of my leather-covered adult Bible when I first sat down to teach my kids.

When we speak of calling, most people think of some loftier spiritual work rather than business, construction, or retail. Under this paradigm, the...

Listen as the congregation files out of the sanctuary on Sunday, and you'll hear the common refrain: "I didn't get anything out of ___...

You may think you can find a better life if only you could escape your circumstances. But the right way to answer the question When Will My Life...

There are times when we need to take a step away from what we have grown to know and accept, and other times when we need to change our outlook...

Mike Blackaby says we must be “colliders,” people who do not hide from pop culture, but rather engage the world through it as a believer in Christ.

Let me share some ideas for successfully creating rules for your household. The earlier you start this process the better.

Deciding whether to forgive and reconcile or to end a relationship and move on is not an easy decision to make.

In time, people have a hard time telling when we are kidding and when we are dead serious. There is no worse indictment on a man's preaching than...