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Daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: His was a life so filled with drama that it has been depicted in movies.

Daily devotional study overview from Moody Bible Institute: It is easy to let our circumstances shape our mood. If things are going well, we are happy.

Daily devotional study overview from Moody Bible Institute: In March we celebrate Women’s History Month and the significant contribution...

Daily devotional study overview from Moody Bible Institute: If you’ve memorized any verse from the book of Jeremiah, it’s probably Jeremiah 29:11.

This Gospel is as relevant for us and our churches in this digital age as it was for the original 1st-century readers. Of the four Gospels only in Matthew’s Gospel does the word church appear (chapters 16 and 18), and he concludes with the Great Commission: Jesus sending God’s people into the world with His message. We pray that this study...

Hunger, Thirst, and Righteousness In the Bible we encounter three kinds of faith: stomach-faith, signs-faith, and Word-faith. The people of Israel wandering in the desert only wanted the Lord to feed them. They constantly grumbled about the lack of food or its variety, and God gave them manna to test them (Ex. 16:4). In all four Gospels,...

Every Good and Perfect Gift O. Henry was a master of short stories with unexpected endings. The Last Leaf, published in 1907, tells the story of a young woman dying of pneumonia. Her friend, an old artist, painted his “masterpiece”—a leaf on the ivy plant outside the young woman’s window. This leaf gave her a hope, a will to live and to overcome...

Servant Discipleship: The Gospel of Mark We who follow Christ want to be His wholehearted disciples. At the end of our journey we all would like to hear the words of our Lord: “Well done, good and faithful servant!” (Matt. 25:23). But with today’s emphasis on being strong, empowered, visionary, and influencer, the biblical call to live like...

Treasure in the Bible “Quartet for the End of Time” by French composer Olivier Messiaen is based on the book of Revelation. Its haunting rhythms and mysterious melodies evoke the eternity of Christ and tell us about the grace of God. But the composer found this grace in a grim place. Messiaen composed his quartet while a prisoner of war in...

Who Is this Jesus? At Christmas, nativity scenes, Sunday School children’s plays, even carols like “Away in the Manger,” remind us that Christ was born as a baby. Because He is “fully human in every way,” Christ can understand and identify with our humanity. But we also know that He is fully God, making “atonement for the sins of the people”...