Tim McGinnin is the director of a nonprofit organization that supports seniors and people with intellectual disabilities. He and his wife, Selina, are both ordained pastors at their church in New Hampshire, where they serve assisting pastor roles. In 2013, their fifteen-month-old daughter, Samantha, suffered a catastrophic fall that could have killed her. This harrowing experience taught Tim how to forgo polite prayer and instead pray boldly to God for His intervention.
Read MoreHeidy Louisa, who was born with spina bifida, found the struggles associated with daily life too much to bear. (She is a singer and uses just her first two names.) In 2014, at age twenty-four, she decided to end her own life. God intervened, and she is now ministering to others who feel the unbearable anguish she felt—she shares her knowledge of God’s grace with them.
Read MoreThe best way to prepare to hear from God is to remain faithful, prayerful, and watchful, no matter what challenges you face. Learn more in this week’s posts.
Read MoreIn 2015, David was diagnosed with heart damage, but it mysteriously disappeared after hundreds of family members and friends — and one particularly bold prayer warrior — prayed on his behalf.
Read MoreThis post introduces you to the book of Galatians. There is much joy in this chapter because it reveals that the way to salvation is no longer through following the law but rather through Jesus Christ’s atoning death on the cross.
Read MoreIn this devotional, we start with Galatians Chapter 1. The opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians takes on a much different tone than many of his other letters.
Read MoreIn this passage of Scripture, we learn about Paul’s conversion to Christianity and his courageous public testimony of how it happened. Many of the people who heard his story were not receptive to the possibility that he could have received revelations directly from Christ.
Read MoreThis devotional examines the most compelling biblical story of a faithful response to God: Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his only child, Isaac, because God asked him to.
Read MoreThis devotional explains how the law was our guardian until Christ the Redeemer came and ensured us of His grace through faith.
Read MoreIn this devotional, we explore the concept of God adopting us as children and preparing us to receive His holy grace.
Read MoreIn this devotional, we see how a biblical story can reveal a fundamental theological truth. Paul speaks about the slave, Hagar, as symbolic of the Old Covenant and about Sarah, his barren wife, as symbolic of the New Covenant.
Read MoreThis devotional describes the “acts of the flesh,” which we can resist if we live by the Spirit and thereby enjoy the “fruit of the Spirit.”
Read MoreIn this passage of Scripture, we learn that as Christians, we are to restore (or mend) one another gently, with kindness and love, rather than pointing out sin in a judgmental way.
Read MoreOur new devotional series focuses on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. This important letter still serves as wise guidance for our churches today, almost 2,000 years later.
Read MoreDivisions in the church are just as damaging today as they were in Paul’s time. In this devotional, Paul emphasizes Christ’s centrality to the Christian faith of the Corinthians.
Read MoreIn this devotional, we see that salvation comes from faith in Christ and His resurrection and not from supernatural signs, which the Jews valued, or the wisdom, which the Greeks valued.
Read MoreIn this Bible study, we learn that human wisdom comes from knowing God’s mind, which comes from the Holy Spirit within us.
Read MoreIn this devotional, we learn a powerful lesson from one of Paul’s letters to the Corinthians: that we are all united as part of the temple of Christ, so none of us should boast about human leadership or argue over non-essential elements of doctrine or who is a better leader.
Read MoreIn this devotional, we learn a powerful lesson from one of Paul’s letters to the Corinthians: that we are all united as part of the temple of Christ, so none of us should boast about human leadership or argue over non-essential elements of doctrine or who is a better leader.
Read MoreThis devotional addresses sexual immorality within the church community in Paul’s time and the detrimental influence that boasting about such behavior can have on the community of new believers.
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