A Prayer to Wake with a Joyful Noise

John the Baptist's instruction to the crowds who came seeking baptism was practical and direct: if you have two shirts, share with the one who has none. If you have food, do the same. True repentance,...

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Have you ever read a passage of Scripture and felt completely lost? The idea that the Bible is written at a level an elementary-age child can comprehend may be true of its central message — that God l...

27 Heinä 6min

Sitting quietly at a desk, hands folded, attention on the teacher — and being called a snob for it. The substitute teacher's words cut deep, not only because of the insult itself, but because of what ...

26 Heinä 7min

Today's episode is a special bonus from the On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse podcast, hosted by Kristy Graham. What does it look like to trust God when He calls you into some of the world's most d...

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Abraham waited twenty-five years for the fulfillment of God's promise of a son. And then, after that miraculous birth, God asked him to give Isaac back — to take him to Mount Moriah and offer him as a...

25 Heinä 6min

Choosing a word for the year is a practice many people embrace at the start of January, and one year the word chosen was peace — not because peace felt abundant, but because it felt so elusive. When t...

24 Heinä 6min

There are two primary reasons we fail to grow in our understanding of God: pride and deceit. And the almost immediate internal response to reading that — "no, I don't think that's true of me" — is its...

23 Heinä 6min

Sometimes discouragement arrives with a long list of justifications. And sometimes it settles in for no obvious reason at all, quietly smothering the smiles that should be there, draining the joy that...

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