It’s a stunning promise: 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask...
It will go down as one of the great moments in MLB playoff history. Game 4 of the 2026 National League Division Series. The San Diego Padres were on the brink of elimination at the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers. Bottom of the 8th, the...
When you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, your salvation was immediate and complete. Salvation's impact is also eternal: it has a past, present and future impact. In the first two parts of our series, we looked at salvation past and present: I have...
As we said last week, salvation was fulfilled on the cross of Christ and is complete, but its impact is eternal. As a result, being saved doesn't mean we immediately become perfect. God continues working in us. As Oswald Chambers put it: What the New Testament...
Have you found salvation? When someone asks you that, they are usually asking if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Have you allowed Christ into your life? Yes, that is being saved, and Jesus' work on the cross was complete and...
The book of Esther may be one of the most misunderstood and sanitized books of the Bible. The story is a Sunday school staple: Xerxes, King of the Persian Empire, is angered by his wife’s disobedience and holds a “beauty pageant” to find a new...
It turns out that you can learn a lot from a 30-year-old TV show about containing a deadly contagion. I recently watched an episode of “Touched by an Angel” where Monica was infected with this contagion. Being an angel, not human, it hit her especially...
Ten years ago, I sat in the office of a pastor whom I barely knew and shared with him things I had done wrong that had left my life in crisis mode. I had been forgiven by others for these things, but I could not...
Millions of social media users in the last week have been answering a question no one on earth should be answering. In fact, it is a question no one should be asking: Is Dolly Parton in heaven or hell? Many commenters point to the extensive humanitarian...
Even casual baseball fans know the answer to this question: how long was Joe DiMaggio’s record-setting hit streak? It was 85 years ago this summer that DiMaggio hit safely in 56 consecutive games. No one has come close to reaching that mark in the past...