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What you believe about God actually changes your brain.Brain research in neuroscience has found that our thoughts and beliefs affect our physical, mental and spiritual health. Mind and body are interrelated, and we are designed for healthy relationships of love and trust. When we understand God as good and loving, we flourish. Unfortunately, many of us have distorted images of God and mostly think ...
The doctrine of deification or theosis is typically associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Indeed, the language of participation in the divine nature as a way to understand salvation often sounds like strange music in the ears of Western Christians despite passages like 2 Peter 1:4 where it appears. However, recent scholarship has argued that the theologies of ...
You love God's Word. You want Scripture to inform you daily life and seep deep into your soul. Yet too often Bible study becomes a mere fact-finding exercise or a dull, spiritless routine.
How can Bible reading shape you and transform you?
How can you meet God face to face while pondering his message in the Old and New Testaments?
Cindy Bunch has written this practical nine session ...
Number of Studies: 9
Hell is real and terrible. It is the fate of those who reject God. Evangelicals agree about this unhappy truth. Yet on some questions about hell disagreements arise.
Some evangelicals believe the wicked will experience perpetual, conscious torment after death. Others argue that the wicked will experience a limited period of conscious punishment and then they will cease to ...
The Old Testament tells the stories of fascinating men and women in relationship: couples who live with chronic disappointment, couples who overcome all obstacles to be together, in-laws who can't stand each other, a wife who risks death if she walks in on her husband unannounced, and a husband who takes back his wife when she becomes a prostitute. There are arranged marriages, fiercely loving marriages, ...
Number of Studies: 9
Our technology shapes the way we live, interact, work, play, and even worship. Technology and its power are both old and new—as is the wisdom we need to envision, design, build, and use it well. For Christians passionate about developing technology, it's not always clear how their faith and work intersect. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and ...
Real Answers for Real Life: Faith, Calling, Relationships, and More
God invites you to love him with all of who you are. But what does that actually look like when following Jesus feels hard, and the questions you face are overwhelming?
Trust God to Meet You in Motherhood
Sometimes motherhood feels like you're running on autopilot, moving so fast that you forget where you're going. Other times it feels like you're just trying to hold it all together whileworking through a never-ending list of errands.
But Jesus' invitation to follow him isn't limited to people with empty calendars and picture-perfect ...
Number of Studies: 7
What does mental health look like when it's centered on God's love and peace?
Mental Health: Experiencing God's Care for Our Mind, Body, and Spirit is an inspiring six-week interactive Bible study that invites you to explore God's love and presence in your mental health and everyday struggles. Written by award-winning author Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, this study offers a ...
Number of Studies: 6
It used to be that providing clear evidence for the resurrection of Jesus or the reliability of the Bible was a pretty effective way to reach people with the Good News. But today, many folks think all truth is relative, even our historical and scientific data about Christianity. So how can we reach them?
We need new ways of telling people the old, old story. We need to look again at our usual ...