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A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: St. Augustine is often quoted as saying, “Love God and do whatever you please.” Taken at face value,...

A daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute: In Carol Dweck’s popular book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success she explains a theory that became popular in the classroom.

The Head of the Church While there have always been famous people, the modern world has taken fame to a new level. Outlets like People magazine and TMZ encourage us to care about every detail of celebrities’ workout routines, diets, and vacations. Sociologists use terms like “celebrity culture” to describe the obsessive attention given to...

Everyone Is Invited The Core Club of New York City promises the good life. You can eat the best meals, meet interesting people, and have access to boats, airplanes, and hard-to-get theater tickets. However, this Club experience is not open to everyone. To join this exclusive group, you need to pay a $50,000 initiation fee and a $15,000 annual...

Alive in Christ: Part 2 In November 2018, the Federal Reserve reported that student debt in the United States had reached an all-time high, surpassing 1.5 trillion dollars. This incredible level of debt represents an enormous burden upon today’s college graduates. It often prevents them from home ownership or from being able to have savings...

Freedom Through Christ In March 2018, a Missouri man who had spent nearly four decades in prison was finally released. But after a couple of months of freedom, he walked into a restaurant, put his hand in his pocket, and demanded money asking the clerk to call the police. When asked why he staged the armed robbery, he explained, “I want to...

Unity Through Song Game 3 of the 2018 World Series set a record of the longest game in series history at 18 innings. The only people who were on the field working for the entire game were the umpires. The home plate umpire squatted and made a judgment call on 561 pitches over seven and a half hours! The apostle Paul urged the church at Colossae...

Persevere in Prayer Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history with twenty-eight medals, twenty-three of them gold. This success did not happen by accident. At the peak of his training regimen, he spent in the pool five to six hours a day, six days a week. In addition, he lifted weights three days a week. Such dedication to...

Living in Christ The apostle Paul faced many setbacks in ministry. In 2 Corinthians, he describes some of the difficulties he endured: flogging, imprisonment, stoning, beatings, and shipwrecks, just to name a few (2 Cor. 11:23–28). At the climax of this list, he says he is daily concerned for all the churches (v. 28). When he heard about...

Treasures Can Be Hidden Hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains is the Fenn Treasure. Multi-millionaire Forrest Fenn hid more than one million dollars of gold and jewels, then in 2010 published a poem with nine clues for treasure hunters. He wanted to encourage people during a recession and “give hope to those who had a sense of adventure...