NEWS: Milan and Kay Yerkovich interview with “Focus on the Family”
Milan and Kay Yerkovich, authors of How We Love, share their story with “Focus on the Family.” Click here to listen to Today’s Broadcast.
SNEAK PEEK: Seven-Mile Participant’s Guide by Steven Furtick
Experience the power and meaning of the last words of Christ with your family, your small group, or in your personal devotions.
Click here to download chapter one of Seven-Mile Participant’s Guide.
Filmed in the Holy Land! In this seven-session, video-based study, pastor Steven Furtick explores the last words of Christ from the very Holy Land locations at which they were spoken. Standing on the Mount of Olives, in the Garden of Gethsemane, at Golgotha, Furtick unpacks the drama, power, and deeper meaning of Jesus final hours before his Crucifixion.
Click here to download chapter one of Seven-Mile Participant’s Guide.
Be Not Afraid: I Go Before You Always
“In Hebrews 13:5 God says to us, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” That verse is a powerful reminder to me of the value my Creator places on his relationship with me. God chooses to be all there for me no matter what I go through in life. God is never too busy. God is never preoccupied with something more important. He is always present and available.”
Excerpted from One Month to Love by Chris and Kerry Shook
Daily Reflection:
How has God shown you the value of your relationship with Him?
A Rosy Outlook
“There was one elevator operator who arrived by 6 a.m. each day with a large smile on her face and obvious joy in her heart. She was always like a beacon of light in that dark and gloomy building, and many of us would wait longer just to ride in her elevator. She was old, wizened and uneducated. She was often treated rudely. But she never let anyone or anything darken her day, and she shared her joy with anyone who cared to receive it.”
Excerpted from To Heaven and Back by Mary C. Neal, MD
Daily Reflection:
When we are working for God, we live with joy in our heart. How can you let your joy shine through and touch the lives of others?
Christmas Colors
When we think of Christmas, we often paint a picture in our minds with strokes of green and red against a canvas of white, with a touch of silver and gold here and there. Why are these colors most commonly associated with Christmas? Who was the first artist to choose these hues from their palette? It was God. It is He who paints the seasons with colors. Over the years, tradition has ascribed special meaning to the colors of Christmas. Green suggests lifethe eternal “ever-green” life we have in Christ. Red recalls the blood that Jesus shed on the cross for us. White speaks of the purity of the spotless Lamb. Gold celebrates the divine nature of God’s Son and reminds us that He is the great King. Silver commemorates the price that was paid for His betrayaland our redemption [ … ]
SNEAK PEEK: Girls With Swords by Lisa Bevere
If there ever was a time for women to be armed, its now.
Click here to download chapter one of Girls With Swords.
Yet the Word of God is a sword we often are more comfortable studying than wielding. Its time we give girls swords and watch them connect heaven to earth. Worldwide, women are the targets of prejudice, sex trafficking, abuse, and even gendercide. Lisa Bevere writes that these attacks say more about who women might be in the future than who they have been in the past. In Girls with Swords she explains a spiritual enemy is seeking to disarm women on every level. Its time women become the heroes God created them to [ … ]
