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- By Jill Briscoe
You’ve likely heard before that God uses the picture of a marriage relationship as a metaphor of His relationship to His people. That’s one of the many reasons it’s important that Christian marriages stay together. Because when they fall apart, the picture is spoiled. In ...
- By Stuart Briscoe
I think everybody who goes to church has probably heard the expression, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God!” That, of course, is a quotation from Jesus in Matthew 4:4 when He was ...
- By Stuart Briscoe
A user on our mobile app asked, “I love my Lord, and I want to serve Him, but I need to be saved. I go to church every Sunday at the Salvation Army, and I attend Bible study. I try to learn all I can ...
- By Stuart Briscoe
Question: I believe the gospel, but I struggle to embrace it in a personal way. How do I make the step from knowing to trusting? Answer: Only the Holy Spirit can bring deep conviction of sin and the desire for genuine repentance. We have to ...
- By Jill Briscoe
Psalm 23 contains some of the most famous verses of the Bible. I want to share a couple of them with you, and show you how through the living Word of God, you can experience true and lasting joy. Even though I walk through the ...
- By Jill Briscoe
“Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” – Nehemiah 8:10 How true it is. In Psalm 137, we find the Israelites in Babylon as refugees by coercion, slaves of cruel masters, far away from home with only bad memories as ...
- By Stuart Briscoe
Stuart’s Timeless Wisdom: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 In John 17, Jesus tells His disciples that He has completed ...
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We recently heard from a listener named Ellen in North Carolina, who shared… “I prayed for years that my family would accept Christ as their Savior. Then one day my niece did! But she was getting confused by various Bible teachers, so I gave her ...
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The story of Esther is a powerful one because it reminds us that God’s light always shines in the darkness—and that He can use you to be that light. Esther’s Hebrew name was Hadassah, which means “myrtle tree.” But the Persians renamed her, Esther, which ...
- By Nancy Grisham
Don’t you just love how God chooses to use ordinary people to accomplish His purposes? Because as members of the body of Christ, God promises to give every single believer spiritual gifts to bless and build up the Church. As I read through this newsletter, ...
- By Jill Briscoe
Years ago, I went into the hospital with stomach pain. After examining me for a few moments, the doctors told me they needed to quickly take out my appendix. Easy enough, I thought. That’s a routine procedure. Eight days after my surgery, I was still ...