Some people approach scripture as a hodge-podge of stuff – morality, government, history… the list goes on and on. But the Bible taken as a whole speaks to us about God’s desire for a creation that would be in close relationship with him. Not just a people on his “good” side, but a people united [...]

We have a powerful tool in the spiritual battle before us. We have God’s word, recorded for our benefit – so that we might be the people God designed us to be: All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong [...]

We don’t do it very often anymore, but there was a time when my children were younger when they often asked if we could play a game of “Hide and Seek.”  There was just something exciting about finding a place somewhere in the house, or even the yard, to take cover and try to remain hidden from [...]

Have you ever gotten so caught up in the minutia that you missed the “main thing”? If so, you’re not alone. I know I can easily fall into this, and I know many others the same way. And the passage we are going to look at today suffers greatly from this sort of thing. Hear, [...]

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’ But he answered,” Matthew 4:1-4Matthew 4:1-4English: [...]