by Ami Samuels
Have you ever been blindsided by life, everything is going along as planned, and out of nowhere something unexpected hits you so hard it knocks the wind out of you? You find yourself holding your breath, reminding yourself to breathe, to get through this moment, day, month,...
by Charlie Wolcott
One of the amazing things about Scripture is how it fulfills prophecy fully and completely. This past summer, Bill Seng did a 10-part series of why he believes the Bible over other religious texts and reason #4 was because of the prophecy aspects. In the last two weeks,...
by Logan Ames
In preparation for this writing, I came across a quote by pastor and author Bruce Larson: “The bottom line for you and me is simply this: Grimness is not a Christian virtue”. He goes on to say, “If God really is the center of one’s life and being, joy is inevitable. If...
by Bill Seng
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.” - 1 Timothy 6:20
Science is not what it was meant to be at its founding. In the early years of science, although exclusively practiced...
by Katie Erickson
This time of year, our focus often turns to being thankful. We get bombarded with Thanksgiving advertisements; we make plans to spend time with family; and we’re reminded in many places that we should be thankful for what we have. It’s easy to be thankful on Thanksgiving,...
by Preston Hunteman
Failure. No one likes to admit it, especially me. I have wanted to grow up and become free of all the rules associated with living at home. The truth is, failure is a fact of life. One of the best things about the Scriptures is that they give testimonies...
by Michael Homula
Contrary to our elementary school lessons that establish a meeting between pilgrims and native Americans as the first Thanksgiving, the truth is actually a far more poignant story.
As those who had been followed along in the Biblical Truth at Gettysburg series or who...
by Charlie Wolcott
Last week, I opened the discussion on how each book of the Bible was put through the “Canon Test” to see if it was worthy of being included in Scripture. I referenced a quote from Eric Ludy’s The Bravehearted Gospel where he describes what the Canon is, how it was...
by Logan Ames
What is the purpose of a smoke alarm? It’s not to just annoy you to the point that you want to take a baseball bat to it. Its purpose is to get your attention so that you are alerted to a major, life-threatening problem you otherwise wouldn’t have recognized. Sometimes...
by Bill Seng
Have you ever played the lifeboat game? There are different variations but I recall having done this exercise from elementary school all the way through my undergraduate studies. The way it goes is that a ship is sinking and there is one lifeboat left. The lifeboat...
by Katie Erickson
Last week, I wrote about sowing and reaping, and how you will experience the consequences for your actions, whether good or bad. To many people, however, experiencing negative consequences will be perceived as punishment from God.
We know that God is love, because...
by Nathan Buck
Have you ever had someone ask you a question, and although you knew the answer instantly, you struggled to give them a reply because the answer was forcing you re-think what you believe or know? Eastern culture is more used to this type of conversation than...
by Charlie Wolcott
Last week I talked about being a Berean, and how we need to check out what people are saying for validity. But doing so requires having a standard to compare everything to. As Christians, we have an ultimate/final standard in the Bible. But a question arises. It is...
by Logan Ames
We live in a society where personal accountability and responsibility seem to be scarce. This is happening more and more as people make excuses for their behaviors and others accept those excuses. Murderers and rapists say they have no choice but to act on their urges....
by Bill Seng
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and...
by Katie Erickson
Unless you’ve had experience working directly on a farm, the terms sowing and reaping probably don’t mean a whole lot to you. As a city girl through and through, farming is definitely not in my world. But to many of those whom Jesus was speaking to while He walked the...
by Charlie Wolcott
“These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.” ~Acts 17:11
What is “the Berean Spirit”? We often hear this phrase in Christian...
by Steve Risner
Last week I introduced the cell—the basic building block of all life we know of. The complexity we find within these little bags of goo is just breathtaking. Processes too numerous to count and too tiny to fully understand fill these little factories that make us what...
