Tim Shorey, one of our staff writers, is journaling through his struggle with stage 4 cancer. In this entry he reflects how deeply moving songs about a Christian’s death have become.

During some of my worst moments of deep introspection, Satan has fired darts at my mind to make me question my salvation and usefulness in my home and local church.

Help lay the building blocks for your people to become life-long readers.

In this excerpt from the recently released Trading Faces, authors John and Angel Beeson invite us to consider how our friendships might change if we lived in the overflow of our friendship with Christ and not friendships established through political allegiance.

Through biblical reflection and long experience, we have come to believe that counseling works best when connected in meaningful ways to the local church.

Only God’s words have the power to create, and only his words can hold up the universe. However, as people made in his image, our words have power too, even what Proverbs calls the power of life and death.

In this excerpt from the recently released A Quiet Mind to Suffer With, author John Andrew Bryant reminds readers that humans are not merely our thoughts and not even our wills. We are what the Word of God will make of us.

My life would be so different without the manifold blessings of the local church.

Although we were in a different part of the country with people we barely knew at all, we were still surrounded by God’s family.

We’ll tend to focus on the imperfections within our local church while only seeing the highlight reel of another church via social media. That’s dangerous.

Not every part of Christ’s body serves the same purpose. And that’s good for us to remember—for so many reasons.

If you’re looking for a book to buy your pastor during Pastor Appreciation Month, I’d suggest Jeremy Writebol’s Pastor, Jesus Is Enough.