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Open Bible on a wooden table with soft light, who is Jesus really

Who Is Jesus, Really? Beyond the Sunday-School Picture

Who is Jesus, really? Here is the direct answer: Jesus of Nazareth is God...
Open Bible by candlelight, the kind of evening Matthew Henry sat down to write his diary of thanks

Matthew Henry: Robbed and Still Thankful

He walked home in the dark with empty pockets. Then he sat down and...
Historic wooden meetinghouse interior — Jonathan Edwards Take 5 featured image

Jonathan Edwards Sermon: The Day Heaven Came Down on Enfield

On a warm Wednesday in July of 1741, a slender man with a weak...
Is God Good When Life Hurts? quiet word for hard days

Is God Good When Life Hurts? A Quiet Word for the Hard Days

It’s a fair question. Anyone who has watched a parent decline, sat in a...
Fanny Crosby, blind 19th-century hymn writer who composed over 8,000 hymns including Blessed Assurance

Fanny Crosby: The Blind Woman Who Wrote 8,000 Hymns

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a traveling doctor treated her infected eyes...
Does God Care About Me? Lift Up Your Day devotional

Does God Care About Me? A Direct Answer for the Days You’re Not Sure

Yes. God cares about you. Not in a vague, polite, religious sense. He cares...
A misty Welsh valley between mountain ridges, evoking the lonely road where Christmas Evans climbed the mountainside to wrestle in prayer and got his fire back.

The Mountain Where Christmas Evans Got His Fire Back

He rode into the Welsh mountains with a cold heart. Hours later he came...
Snowcapped mountain peaks under dramatic clouds with a green tree line below, evoking Psalm 46:1 — God is our refuge and strength.

The Unfinished Baptism: The Civil War Revival of 1863

By 1863, the Civil War had become a slaughter. And in the freezing winter...
Ancient parchment scroll, a picture of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery confirming the Bible is true

Is the Bible Really True? (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21)

In 1947 a shepherd boy threw a rock into a cave near the Dead...
Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, civil rights leader, and founder of Bethune-Cookman College. Library of Congress, public domain.

The Detour That Changed Everything

Mary McLeod Bethune spent years preparing to be a missionary to Africa. Then the...