6 Bible Verses to Renew Your Prayer Life
Do you struggle to pray? If so, you aren’t alone. Even the most mature believers can feel insecure about their personal prayer life. Some Christians might even feel like they have no idea how to pray! This shouldn’t be surprising. After all, Jesus’s own disciples had to ask him to teach them how to talk to God like he did…
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Pray for Dr. King’s Dream of Racial Justice to be Realized
From a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an impassioned 7,000-word letter in response to fellow clergymen who accused his activities as being “unwise and untimely.” What activities? Just four days earlier, King and more than 50 other people led a non-violent demonstration through the streets of Birmingham, protesting the racist treatment suffered by…
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How to Pray Before You Read the Bible
When I first started reading the Bible regularly, I read in energetic bursts. I read because I felt I needed to. It seemed that every few verses, God was speaking to me. I would press my finger to the page, running it over a line of text, as if I could absorb it better that way. I was scared, so…
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How to Read John 6 Through a Jewish Perspective
Shortly after graduating from college, I had the opportunity to study and live in Israel. Although I had grown up studying the Bible, there was nothing like living in the land where Jesus and the patriarchs walked. During that time, I read the Scriptures with fresh eyes, seeing old, familiar stories in a new light. Stories that had become one-dimensional…
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Afraid of What Comes Next? Trade Your Worries for Peace
My throat tightened as my feet inched their way forward on the diving board. “Hurry up, honey,” my swim instructor kindly commanded, checking her watch. My toes slid across the bumpy, slimy plastic and the board wavered under my chubby 8-year-old body. I was terrified of slipping before I had the chance to properly inspect the murky water down below,…
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Now is the Time: Reimagining Women in the Bible
In this blog series, pastor and author Rev. Dr. Nicole Martin will tackle the main issues that may prevent women leaders from engaging with Scripture and discuss ways to develop women through the power of God’s Word. Together we will learn to see through the eyes of women who lead and discern ways to strengthen and empower women wherever God…
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Answered Prayer: Jesus Heals the Wounded Heart of a Sri Lankan Boy
As 13-year-old Amal* sat in the dining hall of the Bible-based trauma healing group, he seemed disinterested and irritated. Concerned, the facilitator took him aside and gave him a sheet of paper and colored pencils. She asked him to draw how he was feeling. Amal drew a heart with crying eyes.That’s when the pain of his childhood abuse started to…
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