Go behind-the-scenes with Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life.From being in a motorcycle gang, to being incarcerated, and then becom… Read more…
Read by the author.In a world that screams Be Seen! Be Known! and often measures value by likes and shares and follows, it's easy to feel invisible, unheard, unloved. But God's Word offers a powerful and freeing counternarrative: true treasure is actually found in the "hidden" life of Christ.Somewhere along the way, we've confused our level of vi… Read more…
Galatians is a responsive text - Paul believed that this was a make-or-break time for the full acceptance of his mission and ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ for gentiles, so he did not shy away from speaking his mind. Before we can digest the message of the letter to the Galatians for our own lives today, we must first make sense of why Paul wrote wha… Read more…
Mark's Gospel is highly subversive and challenges disciples in ways that are unique from the other three accounts of Jesus' ministry. His narrative addresses Christian audiences who know Jesus' teaching and who have made a Christian confession but who are failing to grasp the character of the gospel as thoroughly shaped be the cross of Christ. … Read more…
Chronicles tells the story of kingship and life in the kingdom, with joyful worship of God at its center. While the lives and exploits of Davidic kings will be rehearsed and principles for kingdom-living will be expounded, Chronicles is ultimately God’s story. The Lord God is gloriously enthroned in the heavens, and he rules as king over all the nations. H… Read more…
The book of Kings tells the story of many failures: how Solomon’s sin led to the division of the monarchy, how Jeroboam’s sin plagued the Northern Kingdom for centuries, and how persistent apostasy resulted in exile for both the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Why would anyone want to read such a depressing story? Because one can learn a lot from failure  Read more…
The book of Ruth presents a compelling account of how most of us experience God in our everyday lives. We see God working indirectly behind the scenes, giving us a theology of divine and human cooperation, as those who pray for God’s blessings participate in answering their own petitions as well as the prayers of others. In Esther’s story, we recognize o… Read more…
The story of Numbers alternates between the heights of obedience and hope and the lows of rebellion and despair. The heights open and close the book and mirror one another like twin majestic peaks (1:1–10:10; 26:1–36:13). The lows occur in between like a dry desert valley that seems to stretch on forever (10:11–25:18). But the peaks and the valley work… Read more…
In ancient times, Leviticus was the first biblical book with which Jewish children began their education. According to the rabbis, there are 613 laws in the Torah, and nearly half of them are contained in Leviticus. And yet it also contains narrative, making the book's genre something like an "instructional history" and indicating that the instruction ca… Read more…
Exodus' place within the story of God is defined by its record of God's greatest act of redemption until the cross and resurrection of Christ. Its concluding picture of God in all his blessing and glory dwelling in the midst of his people will spark the faith and vision of the concluding picture of the whole Bible.
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A six-session Bible study for groups based on the story of Joseph.Life can throw us off-kilter. Maybe you’ve found yourself in a season that you never would have expected.In this six-session study guide, based on the book Not What I Signed Up For and its accompanying streaming video teaching series, Bible teacher Nicole Unice invites you into biblical stor… Read more…
En GranDIOSo, John Bevere te invita a dar una nueva mirada a lo que significa trabajar en tu salvación con temor y estremecimiento. Esta virtud saludable, santa y en gran medida olvidada, es el camino poco común hacia una vida más plena y fructífera. Si miras a los hombres y mujeres en las Escrituras, los que vivieron y terminaron … Read more…