Darrin and Rick conclude pastor training. Read their updates, including hope amid devastating floods and ways to pray as they travel home....
Darrin and Rick have arrived and have begun their time teaching......
A video from 2015 shows a new audience the country of Nepal and her people....
Waiting for God can leave us weary, especially when nothing seems to change. Through the psalmist's honest prayers and the picture of a farmer waiting for a seed to grow, this article explores how we can trust God's Word and remain faithful when His work is hidden from view....
The Hebrew midwives in Exodus faced a choice with life-or-death consequences. Their response shows us where to turn when the pressures of the world conflict with what God says....
When suffering continues, our prayers often focus on escape or explanation. Psalm 119:73–80 teaches us to seek God’s comfort and mercy while also asking Him to guard our hearts, use our experience to encourage others, and make us faithful through the trial....
When suffering makes God’s goodness difficult to see, Psalm 119:65–72 teaches us to anchor our faith in His character, His Word, and the cross. Affliction may expose our wandering, reshape our priorities, and deepen our dependence on God—even before we understand what He is accomplishing....
When God Himself Is Your Portion: Psalm 119 asks us to look beneath our desires and consider where we expect lasting satisfaction to come from....
At our Father’s Day festivities, we set up a cold brew coffee station and quickly discovered that many in our church family were not entirely sure what cold brew was, how to drink it, or whether it should be trusted. Since we have some left over and plan to serve it again during our Fourth of July festivities, here is a very friendly, very unofficial cold brew primer. Learn what cold brew is, how it is different from iced coffee, where it likely began, and a few simple ways to enjoy it....
Esau’s decision to trade his birthright for a bowl of stew seems foolish from a distance. But his story presses a question into our own hearts: how often do we trade the lasting promises of God for temporary relief, comfort, or ease? This short devotional reminds Christians to trust God’s promises, keep praying, and resist settling for something less than His best....
When suffering makes God’s goodness difficult to see, Psalm 119:65–72 teaches us to anchor our faith in His character, His Word, and the cross. Affliction may expose our wandering, reshape our priorities, and deepen our dependence on God—even before we understand what He is accomplishing....
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When the house is quiet and the lights are off, our minds often replay every fear, disappointment, conversation, unanswered question, and failure. In Psalm 119:55, the psalmist teaches us a better way: “I remember your name in the night, O LORD.” This post reflects on how God’s Word helps us stop listening to ourselves and start preaching truth to ourselves in the ni...
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