It’s clear that the God of Job is the same Lord of steadfast love we see throughout the whole of Scriptures.

When it feels like you are experiencing a period of dryness and are struggling to see growth, turn from your shame toward Jesus.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Ray Ortlund extends the good news of the gospel to sinners lying at rock bottom, reminding readers that “…we will find such an astonishing hope nowhere else.”

We are welcomed home to God because Jesus was exiled by God. He was forsaken that we might be forgiven.

Jesus is missing from the tomb because he’s seated on the throne of heaven. And if he’s no longer in the tomb, then his rightful place is in our lives and in the lives of those around us.

In this excerpt, author Luke Cawley describes the cost of forgiveness as Jesus “bears the weight of reconciliation on his own shoulders so that our evasion, hostility, and all the accumulated grime of the years no longer need to come between us and God.”a

The beauty of the Christian gospel is that because of the empty tomb left by our crucified and risen Savior, you know eventually that boat will make it to the land, where you’ll never have to worry about the monsters of the sea ever again.

Remember the prayers he has answered on your behalf. Remember the mountains he has moved. Remember the cross of Calvary.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Dwayne R. Bond tells a story of how a church’s hospitality and care lead to the Lord’s work of salvation.

Fasting doesn’t save us or make us holy, but it is a tool to glorify God in our lives. When used properly, it humbles us, trains us in obedience, and trains us in faith.

Despite our frailty, somehow, God sees fit to include us in his work of making all things right.

Most churches don’t have a motivation problem; they have a mobilization problem. This excerpt from The Nehemiah Way by John H. Wilson and Amy Lynch tells the stories that motivated them to write this book.