By Kelly Carr This week we begin a four-part series looking at four different people (or groups of people) Jesus encountered. Each Scripture text comes from the book of John. As I have discovered before in this job as editor, when I read what our authors create, I gain new perspective on familiar stories. For […]
By David Faust These questions coordinate with Engage Your Faith and This Week with the Word. Sunday School Lesson Text: Amos 7:10-17 1. How do you respond when someone confronts you with an unpleasant truth? 2. Are you sometimes so careful with your words that you fail to share necessary truth with others you love? […]
By S. Daniel Smith You’ve seen it before. Usually it’s a pole with a snake wrapped around it on the side of an ambulance screaming down the road to save someone’s life. For decades in America, the snake on the pole has meant that people are coming to help. It’s that rescue that John 3:10-15 […]
By Laura McKillip Wood Emmy met her husband, Cole, when they both volunteered at a program for underprivileged junior high kids. When they married three years later, they attended a church that focused on sending out missionaries. Within a year, the opportunity arose for them to move to Afghanistan to work. As she puts it, […]
By Lena Wood It was worry that killed the cat—according to the original adage. Around A.D. 1600 Shakespeare wrote, “Courage man! What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care” (Much Ado About Nothing). At some point in history, curiosity—that penchant for sticking your nose where it may not […]
