This week believers all over the world will be celebrating the Day of Pentecost—the day God sent the Holy Spirit and started the New Testament church! This week believers all over the world will be celebrating the Day of Pentecost—the day God sent the Holy Spirit...

“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin, which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Heb. 12:1). Look at the life of a runner. The runner must be slim and fit to run well. The exhortation of laying...

“Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart” (Ps. 37:4). “But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes...

There is a saying that was popular for a while in religious circles. It went something like this: “God always answers prayer, but sometimes the answer is ‘no.'” I don’t like that saying because it’s wrong. The Bible doesn’t say...