What Does the Bible Say About the Bible BY MIMI GREENWOOD KNIGHT I’ve often heard it said that the best way to study the Bible is to study it with the aim of teaching. That’s certainly true for me. As I dig into the lesson I’ll present to my second graders each Sunday, looking for correlations I can show them between the Bible story and the lives we’re living today, God often speaks to me as clearly as He does to my students. Case in point — one week, I was teaching the kids

GROWTH RARELY HAPPENS WHERE LIFE IS EASIEST BY AMBER PANTER Are you sitting down? No, really ... are you actually sitting down? You are likely sitting on a chair or bed right now — maybe leaning over a counter. If so, consider sitting on the floor while you read this. I listen to a neuroscience podcast, and the host always gives tips on aging well so we can take care of ourselves as we get older. Apparently, when we are children, we use muscles that we don’t keep using when w

THE SUPREME PURPOSE OF GOD BY MIKE MAZYCK “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” In a passage containing enough spiritual

Is a Counterfeit Creeping In? By Mike Mazyck I believe it is a dangerous thing to use words carelessly. Words reflect and shape our belief systems. They create our ideologies. They mold our expectations. Words become filters that impact our perception of reality. The way we define words shapes our actions. If a man labels his compromise as “grace,” he will embrace it. If he labels his sin as a “struggle,” he will excuse it. If he calls his lukewarmness “balance,” he will sett

WHY REVIVAL BEGINS IN THE PEW, NOT ON THE COUCH BY MIKE MAZYCK And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. – Hebrews 10:24–25 (NKJV) Is it possible to be a mature and healthy Christian believer and not be a deeply devoted member of a local church? If you would have asked me that question ten

WHEN FORGOTTEN CLAUSES LEAD TO FORGOTTEN FEAR BY MIKE MAZYCK I met Chris in 2000, while standing in line on orientation day at Bible college. We immediately hit it off. Our testimonies were similar; he had also recently come out of a difficult life of drugs and worldly pursuits and had turned to God. We managed to become roommates, and over the next couple years we grew closer and closer. We went mountain biking together, worked out together, and played basketball together. W

HOPE FOR THE DRY & WEARY SOUL B Y MIKE MAZYCK “Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.” – Psalm...

HOW FALSE TEACHERS HAVE INFILTRATED THE CHURCH BY MIKE MAZYCK “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is...

The Tragedy Within a Forgotten Parable BY MIKE MAZYCK “AND HE SAID TO THEM, “DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PARABLE? HOW THEN WILL YOU...

Parables in the Modern Day Church BY MIKE MAZYCK Have you ever wondered why Jesus used parables? The answer is likely not what you think,...