Are you letting God shape your plans? How do you know if you're submitting to God’s plan, or trying to fit God...
If you're a follower of Jesus suffering from chronic pain, you may find yourself asking, where is God when I'm in pain?
Where is God when you're not getting the results you expected?
Where is God when you're putting out a fire at work, or dealing with a difficult co-worker, or trying to make a...
Emergency room physician Mike Sunu discusses his experience of God in the ER during COVID19.
Throughout the five decades of my Christian life, I have heard at least a hundred sermons or teachings on prayer. I have...
Psalm 90 is a perfect psalm for the end of the year. For one thing, this psalm includes the word "year" more...
Are you open to being surprised by God today? What helps you to have an open heart when God does the unexpected?
“So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will...
God sets limits to our work. It's up to us to discern those limits and live within them.
God called Abraham into a covenant of faithful service, as is told at the beginning of Genesis...
The initial results of Abraham’s journeys were not promising. There was fierce competition for the land (Gen. 12:6), and Abraham spent a...
When Abraham and his family reentered Canaan and came to the region around Bethel, the friction that erupted between the herders of...
Although it was God’s plan for Jacob to succeed Isaac (Gen. 25:23), Rebekah and Jacob’s use of...
The second commandment raises the issue of idolatry. Idols are gods of our own creation, gods that have nothing to them that...
The issue of the Sabbath is complex, not only in the book of Exodus and the Old...
Leviticus 25 ordains a sabbath year, one in every seven (Lev. 25:1-7), and a jubilee year, one in every fifty (Lev. 25:8-17)...
Moses’ moment of greatest failure came when the people of Israel resumed complaining, this time about food and water (Num. 20:1-5). Moses...
In the wilderness, the people's fear leads to a failure to trust God. As a result they rebel against God’s plan for...
Ironically, Ezra himself does not appear in the book bearing his name until chapter 7. This learned...
The last line of Nehemiah 1 identifies him as “cupbearer to the king” (Neh. 1:11). This means...
Psalm 20 teaches us to trust God rather than human power, such as military might. “Some take pride in chariots, and some...
While we seek to honor God in our work, this does not mean the road will be easy.
No matter how great the disaster, God is greater still.
Isaiah begins by insisting that religious rituals nauseate God when accompanied by sinful living: What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt-offerings of...
We see in Jeremiah 5 that the people did not acknowledge God’s provision. If the people did not acknowledge God as the...
Throughout Luke, Jesus teaches that living in God’s kingdom means looking to God, rather than human effort, as the ultimate source of...
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager (Luke 16:1-13) The key to security about the things we need is not anxious earning and...
Jesus’ work climaxes in his willing self-sacrifice on the cross, as with his last gasp he breathes out trust in God, “Father...
James applies both of his underlying principles as a warning against favoritism toward the rich and powerful...
James takes up the topic of work in detail in the second part of chapter 2. When discussing work, he invariably uses the plural “works” (Greek erga) rather than the singular “work” (Greek...
Selfish Ambition Is the Impediment to Peacemaking (James 3:16–4:11) Selfish ambition is the opposite of serving the needs of others. The passage...
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