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The One Thing According to a recent study by Smart Growth America, pedestrian fatalities are at a 30-year high. The main reason for this increase is distracted driving. Most people believe they are pretty good at multitasking. We think we can text, talk on the phone, and drive at the same time. This delusion has made it much more dangerous...

Praise God, Hallelujah! I don’t know about you, but I have started more books than I have finished. I’m just not always able to make it to the end. However, the last five chapters of Psalms are so incredibly life giving that to miss them would be like sleeping through Thanksgiving Day dinner. These last five chapters are sometimes referred...

Thanking God in All Circumstances Sometimes God puts us in situations that make and mold us into the people He wants us to become. It may be easy when those situations don’t come with much opposition, but when things get tough, that is when the real challenges begin. Many scholars believe 1 Thessalonians is most likely the earliest letter...

Religious Ritual Is Rejected On August 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed more than 250,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “I have a dream,” he intoned, calling on the crowd to imagine an America where racial injustice no longer oppressed people. Part of his text that day was taken from Amos 5:24: “Let...

Why Blood? A classmate of Billy Sunday, hymn writer Lewis Jones (1865–1936) attended Moody Bible Institute. Upon graduation, he worked for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), and at a camp meeting in Maryland he wrote the words to the hymn, “There Is Power in the Blood.” Would you be free from the burden of sin? There’s power in...

The Power of an Unrepentant Heart After terror attacks on September 11, church attendance spiked. “People thought this type of crisis of national significance would lead people to be more religious, and it did,” Mark Chaves, a professor of sociology at Duke University, observed. “But it was very short-lived. There was a blip in church attendance...

The Measure of God's Wrath Many churches today want to give people a good experience. They want visitors to feel at home. The music is catchy and the sermon upbeat. This is understandable—we want visitors to return and members to stay involved. But if this is all we care about, we will rarely talk about God’s wrath. Today’s text offers a...

Human Silence: Aaron and the Silence of Guilt Computer scientists recently used new techniques to read a 1,500-year-old text known as the Ein Gedi scroll. Because it had been badly burned, archaeologists had been afraid to open it lest it crumble into dust. So researchers at the University of Kentucky used X-ray scan data and special software...

Years ago, I led skiing and backpacking trips with college students near the Canadian border. Read more in today's online daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute.

Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a friend about God and Heaven. Read more as we continue in today's devotional Bible study from Moody Bible Institute.