Everyone likes to pull for the underdog. From sports to romantic comedies to real life, something in our nature wants the weaker opponent to win. Perhaps we do so because, at some point or another, we’ve all been in situations where failure seemed guaranteed. One year, my high-school basketball team »
"Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her." - Proverbs 31:28 Mothers can be very, very good, and mothers can be very, very bad. We do not want to put emphasis on the bad mothers, because by and large we believe, or like »
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." - James 1:2-4 The surgeon's scalpel cut into my »
"You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." - Isaiah 26:3 Your mind is the essence of a conscious, thinking you! You think, you perceive, you converse, you feel, you hurt, you enjoy, you love, you hate, you ignore, all through the »
"And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us." - Luke 16:19-31 Jesus tells a parable about a rich man and a »
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in recent years, you’re probably aware of the rampant prevalence of drugs and alcohol in our culture. Whether you realize it or not, many of your friends, family, and acquaintances struggle with substance abuse and addiction, and the celebration of the casual use »
"But their eyes were kept from recognizing him." - Luke 24:16 One of the strangest post-Easter accounts in Scripture is the encounter Jesus had with two disciples who were walking to Emmaus on the very day he rose from the grave. They allowed him to walk and talk with »
"He is not here, for He has risen as He said." Matthew 28:6 Jesus burst the bonds of death through the mighty power of God early on a Sunday morning. He saw Mary Magdalene first and two disciples on the road to Emmaus, then all the disciples save Thomas, then »
"And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, 'Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set »
"They cried out, 'Away with him, away with him, crucify him!' Pilate said to them, 'Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, 'We have no king but Caesar.'" – John 19:15 So said the chief priests and religious leaders of the Jews at Jesus' trial. Pretty remarkable statement »
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