Bold faith can feel clearest in a crisis; the harder question is how to live when the rush is over and ordinary life must begin again. Matthew 2:19–23 meets Joseph at precisely that point: Herod is dead, God calls his family home from Egypt, and the road ahead still demands careful listening. What does faithfulness look like when obedience is clear, but the next step is not?
The Bible calls us to pray on all occasions and to constantly pray for God’s people (Ephesians 6:18). FaithTree Online Prayer Walks have each gathered hundreds of believers from around the world to pray before our faithful God. Let’s join together to pray in Jesus’s name once again at our ninth Online Prayer Walk all day on January 25! We are excited to see what God will do through this time!
The Bible calls us to pray on all occasions and to constantly pray for God’s people (Ephesians 6:18). FaithTree Online Prayer Walks have each gathered hundreds of believers from around the world to pray before our faithful God. Let’s join together to pray in Jesus’s name once again at our eighth Online Prayer Walk all day on January 25! We are excited to see what God will do through this time!
Have you ever spoken boldly about your faith, only to find yourself later asking if any of it is real? Even John the Baptist, who once pointed everyone to Jesus as the promised one, sends messengers in Luke 7 to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
Pastor Tim takes us to the question “What is God,” the second question of the New City Catechism, as part of the launch of Sunday School Express.
Even after turning our lives over to Christ, we can still pray as though God were there to serve our wants and protect our plans. In Matthew 7, Jesus says, “Ask, seek, and knock,” raising a searching question for daily prayer: When we belong to Him, what should we be asking our Father to give?
This week, Melanie explores the attitude we need to bring to worship. You can find the first part here and the second part here.
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This week, Melanie explores the history of worship in the Bible and the church. You can find the first part of her trilogy of studies on worship here.
What do we think of when we wake up? Psalm 5 suggests we change up our first thoughts of the morning to something more refreshing.