- Forward Day By Day - July 6, 2025
My onset of depression manifested itself in a struggle to get out of bed. I felt like hiding from everything. But then something unexpected happened. I stumbled upon a YouTube channel that offered yoga classes for pregnant women. Yes. Yoga for pregna [...] - Forward Day By Day - July 5, 2025
I spend much of my life moving through the world—doing lots of looking and not much seeing. It wasn’t until I experienced a mental health crisis in 2017 that I learned the distinction between looking and seeing. Looking tends to be a passive, sur [...] - Forward Day By Day - July 4, 2025
“Seeking a homeland” certainly resonates with me, especially as we mark Independence Day in a country where so many of us are not free or do not feel at home. Throughout my life, I have experienced the transient nature of home. By the .... (Vie [...] - Forward Day By Day - July 3, 2025
I have a few memories, like fading snapshots, of my baptism at my childhood Southern Baptist church. I remember that it took place in a pool built into the wall painted with a pastoral scene. I remember wearing a white robe that clung against my body [...]
- Choices and Consequences - July 6, 2025
In 1890, amateur ornithologist Eugene Schieffelin decided to release sixty European starlings into New York City’s Central Park. While there were likely several introductions of the species, Schieffelin’s released starlings resulted in the first [...] - Grandma’s Last Night - July 5, 2025
My grandmother had a routine on Saturday nights. Before she went to bed, she laid out all her clothing including the shoes she planned to wear to church the next morning. She always attended the early service and wanted to be ready to get up and go [...] - The Treasure Christ Offers - July 4, 2025
Michael Sparks walked into a thrift store and bought a souvenir copy of the US Declaration of Independence for $2.48. Later, as he looked closely at his parchment copy, he felt there was something unusual about it. So he had it assessed by experts, w [...] - Jesus—Our Everything - July 3, 2025
With the referee’s final gesture, wrestler Kennedy Blades became a 2024 Olympian. She pressed her palms together, lifted her hands and eyes to the heavens, and gave God glory. A reporter asked about her growth over the past three years. The elite a [...]
- How to Get Strong in God
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. (1 Samuel 30:6) David was not the first great man in [...] - Is Our Kindness a Condition of God’s Mercy? 2 Timothy 1:15–18, Part 2
Is God’s mercy the foundation of our good works, or is his mercy the reward of our good works? Watch Now - The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus
Did Jesus endure the cross for his joy or despite it? The answer takes us to the heart of Jesus’s unusually human joy, and ours. Watch Now - Yearning for Christ’s Return
Why would anyone fast for the end of history? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Luke 2:36–38 to reflect on an elderly woman’s devotion and invite us to hunger for Christ’s return with the same intensity. Watch Now