“…teachers and parents, is your answer to that question—why do I have to learn this stuff—a Christian answer, a biblical answer? And now students, my question for you…. If I can show you that God wants you to learn math or English or history, will that change your attitude toward it?” - Mark Ward
“Instead of pressing into community, I isolated. Instead of reading the Word, I scrolled Instagram to distract myself. Instead of praying, I consulted Google for hours, searching for the answers to questions far beyond its ability to explain: Why the illness? Why the miscarriage? Why us? Why now? Why, God?” - TGC
Jesus shows us how to respond when sorrow presses heavily upon the soul. His experience in Gethsemane provides a pattern of faithful endurance that remains profoundly relevant for believers today.
Three questions deserve careful consideration: Is depression always sinful? What causes depression? How should Christians respond?
“Do not memorize only a few favorite verses. Certainly, you can start there! But I want you to think about making this a habit you continue to do until God calls you to heaven.” - Word by Word
“This change of citizenship, Paul continues, comprehensively reorients lifestyle for the sake of authenticating the gospel of Jesus Christ… whose call to a humble life of obedient sacrifice (Philippians 2:5-11) contrasts categorically with the ‘might makes right,’ ‘right of conquest’ global politic that dominated the ancient world’s successive global empires.” - Providence
“ ‘Imagination’ is simply the mental faculty that we have of conjuring up mental images in our minds. ….Thus, the social imaginary includes not just intellectual beliefs but what we picture in our minds (memories, feelings, desires, fantasies, our constructions, and what we take as real).” - Gene Veith
Editor’s note: Posted first here in 2022, but relevance has only increased.
by Bob Stevenson
A sermon delivered on Thursday evening, March 28, 1872, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen; the lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. (Job 28:7-8)
“Amidst suffering, the battle between living a kingdom-minded and a self-minded life feels impossible. Bible verses you once held fast to can sound like moral platitudes that neither comfort nor feel true.” - Lifeway
