Read Exodus 1:6-14. You wait for your ride on your front step. You wait for the train on the platform. You wait for your order below the sign that reads, “Wait here.” Waiting for God, though, doesn’t always have a specific spot for you to stand. The Bible shows you many people who had...
Because of Resurrection
Long ago, an event changed the world: a heavy stone was moved, a dead person was no longer dead, and angels were talking to some women! Today, some people begin to cry when they think about that Sunday morning, and others refuse to believe any such things happened on that Sunday morning. To Pray About:...
A Bank and a Hope
What if you found out all your money was gone?! That money might have been in a bank or hidden around your house. Your emotions may swing from anger to fear. Much of that could depend on why the money was missing. No matter what made it disappear, you would have to figure out what...
A Cabin and a Barn
Can you imagine if every day was your birthday? Of course, you don’t want to age that fast, but the presents would be fun to open! How long would it take before it wasn’t fun anymore? Sometimes that happens in your everyday life: you don’t find the joy in or thankfulness for what you have...
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 3
The first time you had to be away from family might have been the happiest day of your life. Or, being away could have been one of the hardest things you’ve ever had to do. But you may have never experienced any kind of separation. You have family a few miles down the road or...
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 2
If you were to list the members of your distant and immediate family, how long would it be before you cringed when you wrote that one name? How long would it be before you remembered those words you heard or that event you experienced? You may have been to blame, or you could have been...
When Your Family Isn’t Perfect – Part 1
Some have a picture of their family tree hanging in their house, while others have a page in their Bibles with such information. Others would rather not think about those people whom they’d rather not even call ‘family.’ Love them or loathe them, you are a part of a family. The Bible tells of many...
Community Groups: Living This Life Together
The words in the book of Hebrews offer encouragement through what must have been a difficult time. Though you cannot know every circumstance facing that audience, you can be certain that your difficult days leave you feeling the same way: tired, scared, uncertain, and maybe hopeless at times. The focus of Hebrews, like every other...
All for One: Unity Begins with U (1 Corinthians 15:50-58)
I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For...
Too Heavy to Run! (Hebrews 12:1-12)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him...
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