The Prevailing Life

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  • Weak-End Worriers

    I hope you read the title of this essay and quickly thought it to be a play on the term “weekend warrior” along with some familiarity with it.  I came to understand the term “weekend warrior” in this way: My high school best friend’s father was a longtime member of the National Guard. He explained →

  • Fast Forward

    The theme of this fast is grace. Over two months ago I began to pray about doing this in the spring. Not long after, I took up my copy of John Piper’s Future Grace. I listened to the audio version two years ago and there was so much gold to be mined from it that →

  • Need Some Rest?

    My daily study of Scripture has been in Titus for several days now. This short letter from Paul to Titus, who was on Crete, is packed full of powerful truth. Listen to Verses 1 and 2 in the NIV: “Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s →

  • Heavenly Sunlight

    It was Sunday morning and I was in my chair reading my Bible. I was engrossed in the narrative of Exodus and did not realize that the sun was rising higher in the sky to the point it was shining in my face. My first instinct was to lean left to get out of the →

  • Traditional, Bible-believing churches grow

    by Fred L. Miller Much of this article was written by Dr. Michael Brown for AFA.net, the website of the American Family Association. It has been edited to focus on the research showing how churches that remain committed to orthodox biblical doctrine grow while those who depart from it toward liberalism decline. Brown’s original article →

  • Read the Bible. A lot.

    We’re a week into the new year. If you committed to daily Bible reading on some plan or schedule, you might already be struggling. Here’s a reminder of the importance of spending time reading Scripture. I recently sat down with my Bible and a plan to finish reading the book of Genesis. I had nine →