Resources to help you understand Scripture, grow in faithful habits, and discover more favorite passages.
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Providential Pieces
Converge 2025 // Psalm 139:1-24 – If we want to discover our identity, we cannot do so apart from accepting God’s wisdom as Creator. What appear to be random components of our lives are actually providential pieces of God’s plan.
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Avoid Legalism & Easy-Believism
Upon the road of following Jesus, there are two dangers – one on each side. If not careful, you could fall into either one of these ditches and get yourself into serious spiritual trouble.
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Help for the Homeless that Actually Helps
When we often encounter people who are homeless, our reaction is typically to look away so that we don’t feel the pressure to do anything about it. As followers of Jesus, we must be like Him and embrace those in need rather than ignoring them.
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Replacing Parents with Programs
We have to rethink the role of parents in the church’s strategy to evangelize and disciple the younger generations. Replacing parents with programs will not solve the problems.
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Headship: Church According to God’s Authority
As we seek to follow Jesus within a local church, we must never surrender biblical objectives to manmade agendas. Discover how to lead a local church according to God’s authority.
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Gospel Groups: From Rosters to Relationships
Hebrews 10:23-25 – Being involved in the life of a church requires more than having your name on the roster of a group. Discover how to move from being a name on a list to developing relationships that further your discipleship.
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Ignorant Disobedience vs. Informed Disobedience
The commandments in Scripture educate us on how sinful we truly are. But instead of leaving us in our rebellious despair, we learn of something that is even more numerous than our trespasses—it is God’s grace.
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Help for Spiritual Disciplines
Many disciples of Jesus have a desire to grow or at least a guilt when they aren’t doing so, but we rarely design a plan to help us in our efforts. To be successful in spiritual disciplines, you need to evaluate what you need to start and what you need to stop.
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Resistant to Jesus
As Jesus mourned over Jerusalem’s unwillingness to be protected from Him, how often are we resistant to His leading? Instead of experiencing His covering, we expose and endanger ourselves.
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Mentoring 101
Mentoring will not happen by accident. You must be intentional in helping others follow you as you follow Jesus.
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Unfair Marital Frustration
If your spouse has hurt you, the issue must be addressed, but avoid showing frustration to one another for things other people have done. Don’t permit unfair marital frustration.
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Evangelistic Friendship
Should we share the gospel with unbelievers or befriend them? You can and should do both! The gospel and goodwill are not enemies of one another.
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You Have a Worldview (But Where Did You Get It?)
All of us possess a worldview even if we have never thought about summarizing it as one. The existence of a worldview is undeniable, but the source of it is critical to your overall success.
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I Don’t Belong Here
In an ever-changing societal landscape, Christians often feel more out of place. The standards of this world will war against the biblical mandates, and therefore, we ought to feel different.
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Servant Leadership [Entrust Course]
According to the practice of Jesus, His way of leadership is counter-cultural. Discover the biblical truths of authentic leadership and how you can leverage that in your life for the glory of God and the good of others.
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The Only Book That Doesn’t Require a 2nd Edition
Books constantly need revision because of outdated references or incorrect information, but the Bible’s message needs no update. God’s Word endures forever, and we should develop our worldview from something with such staying power.
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Declaring Bankruptcy
While we want to believe we can pay God back for all our mistakes, the reality is we are truly spiritually bankrupt. Without His assistance, we have no hope.
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Don’t Pay for Eternity What Christ Covered at Calvary
If we are all sinners, all of our sins must be dealt with in some way. Either you will pay for your sins in eternity, or Christ has already paid for them on Calvary.
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The Just Injustice of the Cross
God possesses both lavish extensions of grace and unwavering standards of holiness. These two seemingly competing principles find their peace at the cross, where Jesus takes the just punishment unjustly for our sins.
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Be Believable With What You Believe
If Christians appear hopeless when they offer the hope of Christ to others, we might need to rethink our perspectives. We should be so believable when we tell others what we believe.
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Devoted to the Word
As believers, we are called to be people committed to the Bible. If we want to grow in the Word, we must be devoted to the Word. Ezra 7:6-10 6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and…
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Spiritual Amnesia
For a second time, Jesus leads a faithless group of disciples to help feed a great crowd of hungry people. Failing to remember Jesus’ power in the past can cause us to question His ability in the present for our physical and spiritual needs. Mark 8:1-26 8 In those days, when again a great crowd had…
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Jesus Does All Things [Astonishingly] Well
Jesus broke the status quo as He ministered to those who were on the fringes of society. Through His example, Jesus reminds us that no one is beyond deliverance. Mark 7:24-37 24 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want…
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Don’t Treat the Symptoms of a Heart Problem
The legalists of Jesus’ day appeared godly on the outside but were actually ungodly on the inside. Jesus taught the importance of addressing one’s heart which is the root cause for all of our actions. Mark 7:14-23 14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and…
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When Traditions Override Truth
The religious leaders valued their preferential traditions over God’s doctrinal truth. As followers of Jesus, we must ensure that we hold the Word of God as superior to the traditions of man. Mark 7:1-13 7 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw…
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I AM in a Storm
Separated by chaotic elements, Jesus actually walked on water to reach the fearful in the boat and the needy on the shore. There is nothing so powerful that can hinder Jesus from meeting us in our most significant needs. Mark 6:45-56 45 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other…
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Compassion Never Clocks Out
As ministry needs increased, Jesus sought solitude but was unable to obtain it due to His prioritizing of others’ needs ahead of His own. When Jesus fed the five thousand, He demonstrated the powerful principle that compassion can never clock out. Mark 6:30-44 30 The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had…
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The Christian’s Head on the Culture’s Platter
When John the Baptist spoke out against King Herod’s personal life, it cost him his life. Speaking the truth rarely guarantees receiving the culture’s acceptance or approval.
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Jesus Can Handle Both the Urgent and the Inconvenient
As Jesus journeyed to help a life and death situation, He was interrupted by a smaller problem and yet was able to address both of them. Regardless of the size of our circumstances, Jesus is willing and able to come to our aid.
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When Demons Are Tolerated and Jesus Is Rejected
When Jesus delivered a man from demonic possession, the people had less acceptance of the deliverer than they had for the demoniac. When Jesus threatens our comfort and affluence, we can seek to rid ourselves from His influence as well.