December 19, 2025
The Christmas Gift
Italian missionary Dot Elliot shares a reminder about the greatest gift of all and tells the story of her first Christmas in Italy.
Articles for tag: Gift
December 18, 2025
The Best Christmas Ever
Dr. Joe Grana recalls the story of a Christmas that changed everything in his life and was the best Christmas ever.
December 15, 2025
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Here at the Communion table, we gather as wanderers who have come home and are part of God’s forever family: his church.
December 2, 2025
Christmas Ramblings, Attendance Trends, and the Medication Everyone Should Get On in 2026
Recent studies contend that the joys of Christmas can be carried beyond December and result in good mental and physical health by regularly going to church.
November 4, 2025
Ending Your Search … For Significance (Psalm 8)
Your search for significance will never be completely realized here on earth unless it is realized in Jesus Christ. You can never earn what God wants to give you.
November 4, 2025
Wake Up!
This is the fifth in a series of weekly articles based on Christ’s letters to the seven churches in the book of Revelation. This week’s church is Sardis.
September 15, 2025
THE REAL PEACE DAY
Because of that cross, today and every Lord’s Day—in fact, every day lived in fellowship with the Prince of peace—is Peace Day.
September 4, 2025
What My Sabbatical Taught Me
Offering, providing, and even requiring sabbatical is good policy because an investment in our leaders is an investment in the future of the church.
September 3, 2025
Filter of Hope: Bringing Clean Water and Christ’s Love to Those in Need
Filter of Hope has made it their mission to provide clean, safe drinking water to families living in poverty around the world, while also sharing the message of Christ’s love.
July 21, 2025
The Forgotten Word in Acts 2:38 (Part 1)
No one likes to admit being wrong, so that forgotten word repent sounds unpleasant to our ears, but actually repentance is a reasonable response.
What I’ve Learned from Flannery O’Connor about Preaching and Ministry
After reading the letters of Flannery O'Connor, Jeff Dye shares what he has learned about preaching, ministry, and life.
March 17, 2025
The Worst Thing Became the Best Thing
When earthly death arrives for Christians—God’s people—God sees they are washed in the blood of the Lamb, and he passes over their sins forever, and they live eternally in Heaven.
February 17, 2025
Your Will Be Done
Discipleship requires surrender—ceasing our battle of the wills and voluntarily submitting ourselves to the Lord.
December 25, 2024
Merrily Making Memories
Mike Kennedy, a bi-vocational minister at Minnehaha Church of Christ in Vancouver, Washington, shares a Christmas memory and the value of holding on to those memories.
December 23, 2024
The Donation of Life at Christmas
Rebekah Hannum, a missionary to Spain, recalls a Christmas gift of life from a friend who donated a kidney and a Christmas gift of life from Jesus.
November 3, 2024
Rescued
Each of us is an individual Titanic. We may, in our pride and self-sufficiency, think that we are uniquely grand and unsinkable. But each of us has already struck the iceberg of sin. It’s only a matter of time. But wait. God has provided a lifeboat for anyone who wants to be rescued.
October 31, 2024
Elders are Mission Servant-Leaders
There has been no finer servant leader than Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus called people to serve him then, and he calls people to serve him now.
September 8, 2024
Dismay to Renewal
Our flesh recoils at the thought of Jesus’ crucifixion because of the horrible details. Yet it is only when we embrace that death that we discover God’s pathway from dismay to renewal.
September 1, 2024
Transformative Fire: Prayer’s Impact on Marriage, Mission, and Ministry
Sadly, prayer is often little more than a formality many people practice out of tradition. But when we look closely at Jesus’ model prayer in Luke 11:1-4, we discover that prayer is much more than form; it is a dynamic and transformative fire.
Remembering Dr. Chris Templar (1944-2024)
Johnson University recently announced the passing of long-time faculty member Dr. Chris Templar, a pioneer in the field of robotics and the integration of technology into education.
