To start a fire and to keep a fire going, you need both smaller and bigger logs. In a similar way, suffering people need care of all sizes to keep their faith in Christ warm.

When we faced unexpected adversity, our local church provided help and support.

In this excerpt from the recently released Upon Waking, author Jackie Hill Perry reminds readers that God cares for you—even when it feels like he doesn’t.

Not only did the dynamic within my house change but my whole life was shaped through the local church.

I wanted nothing to do with the church. Then everything changed when a guitar teacher quit his job and planted a church in our town of 700 and became our gospel preacher.

I didn’t know how much my heart craved liturgy until I experienced it.

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.