The throng contains more names than we can possibly list. And someday we will join them.

It’s easy to believe our problems are God’s fault. But maybe we need to turn the looking glass on ourselves.

Have you figured out how the circumstances of your life today fit into God’s big picture and purposes? This week’s posts encourage us to keep believing that God is at work, even when we can’t see how. Choose one or two to read again or share with a friend.

Reflections on a simple initiative in a small church that created decades of ministry with multiplied influence.

Isaiah spoke to a generation that had trouble believing his promises for the future. And he offered hope that extends even to us today.

As we respond to the promises of God, we complete the stories of the Bible heroes we hold dear—and we become heroes to someone in our lives, too.

Just as it was difficult for those in exile to imagine the place where God was calling them, we may have trouble grasping his invitation to us today.

I speak with many who say they want to be leaders. But the Scripture gives a different picture of leadership than what they really want to experience.

When the situation seems hopeless, when the uncertainty is intense, the right two words can make all the difference.

As you’re pondering the struggles in your life, take time to remember the encouragement and insight in each of this week’s posts. Which of these did you miss? Which do you especially want to remember?

I was impressed by so much I saw at the fair, but before I had left, the nods to God left me a little concerned.

The prophet’s promise echoes the Savior’s purpose: clear vision to see the purposes and pathways of God.

The prophet’s audience didn’t know what we understand about the prophet’s message. It’s coming to pass on God’s timetable, not theirs, and not ours.

“Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him.”

“We must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” And how will we obey this admonition from Hebrews 2? We must act.

Waiting on God is something altogether different than just about any other kind of waiting we can experience, especially our weary want for this pandemic to be over.

Surrounded by evil, assaulted daily by bad news, we can find hope in the promises of Scripture. Be encouraged as you remember or read again posts that appeared earlier this week.

Like many Americans, I felt helpless as I watched the news this week from Afghanistan. But more than one website has shown me one thing I can do.

They were weary in their “wilderness moment.” But the prophet urged them to look beyond the horizon to the future God was promising.

“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers.” Thus begins just one example of storytelling like none other.