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“Does God really burn people forever if they don’t get baptized?!” Jeremy’s teenage daughter Darby asked as she walked into the room. She showed him the TikTok video she’d stumbled upon. The conversation set off a series of events that led Jeremy and his family, who’d left the church years...

If you could, instantly, have any book of the Bible memorized, which one would it be? I’ve asked this question to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people over the years. In fact, I asked several friends just recently while enjoying a lovely Sunday afternoon at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The most common...

We’ve just had our ARISE discipleship program graduation, and I have to tell you about one student named Shady, on whom you’ve had a tremendous spiritual impact because of your generous financial support. Though she always felt deeply loved by both her parents, Shady’s childhood was marred by her father’s...

When was the last time you cried because you realized the depth of God’s love for you? Do you remember? I have to share with you a message our team recently received because of your generous support. Let me explain first, though. In case you haven’t heard, one of the...

Once I posted a picture of a meal I made on social media. Somebody who saw it asked me, “Don’t you have more important things to do with your time?” More important than delighting my eyes with colorful fresh produce from the Earth? More important than decompressing from the stresses...

Eric Mason (@pastoremase), a prominent Christian preacher and author, recently made a reel on Instagram in which he asserts that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a cult. The first and primary reason he offers to support this claim is that Adventists generally hold that Christ is Michael the Archangel. From...

When I was a kid, there were only two things I knew with absolute certainty: pain and love. Suffering defined my existence. Horrors haunted our little home—the horrors of rage and drug abuse and, worst of all, the horror of violence regularly inflicted upon my mother. But, then, in the...

I had a couple of big fears as a kid: 1) boa constrictors and 2) quicksand. As I’ve gotten older, though, I’ve happily realized that neither quicksand nor boa constrictors are the everyday struggles of adulthood that I thought they’d be (bills are much worse). When I was nine, I...

Ishmael was a Pioneer Bible Worker for Riverside Farm Institute in Zambia. Justin (Ishmael’s brother-in-law) and Steven (a seasonal worker from Tanzania) were studying Truth Link together with Ishmael. Using the Bible, they referenced the series of questions each lesson asked. God was at work. Ishmael couldn’t believe what was...

“Where sin abounded, grace abounded much more” (Romans 5:20). Every human being is, by nature, obsessed with self. This includes you and me. Self-centeredness is deeply rooted in us, partly by inheritance and partly by cultivation. This condition traces back to the Fall of humankind. When Adam and Eve sinned,...

“This is so dry,” Ellen thought to herself as she looked at her Bible, feeling shame for thinking such a thought about the Bible and the simultaneous urge to let her eyes glaze over the words. Though raised in a loving Christian home, Ellen struggled to have a deep relationship...

“You can do this. You have a good reason to be here,” I assured myself as I walked over to our new neighbor’s house. My family was new in town and my brother Nick, who has the social anxiety of Spongebob, had already made friends with the kids next door....