I grew up in a Christian home. My home away from home and safe space was always my church, and I was there whenever the doors opened. I met my husband James in a Young Adult singles group while we wer...  Read More

“12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writ...  Read More

“7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. 8 On the other hand, I am wri...  Read More

“1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and He Himself is the propitiati...  Read More

"19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am wit...  Read More

"5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness,...  Read More

Hello everyone, my name is Nathan Mahaffey. I was saved a young child and got baptized, but did not truly appreciate or understand it.Growing up, I saw Jesus impacting other people's lives, especially...  Read More

“1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life— 2 and the life was manifested, and ...  Read More

19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rus...  Read More

“12 Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness. 13 And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels were ministeri...  Read More

My name is David Munson, and when I was a toddler, my family moved to the west side of Houston. For elementary school, my parents sent me to St. Jerome Catholic School even though we were not Catholic...  Read More

38 Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.39 She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word...  Read More

“13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God...  Read More

“19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,”—(Colossians 1:19, NASB 95)“46 And Mary said: “My soul exalts the Lord, 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. ...  Read More

I was raised in a Baptist church in Fort Worth, and I answered the altar call around age 8. I believe I did that more because it was expected of me than understanding that I needed a relationship with...  Read More

“13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God...  Read More

“1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And everyone ...  Read More

“8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then th...  Read More

READ PSALM 19:1 I was a science major in college, which resulted in me being surrounded by peers who were highly unmoved by emotion-based reasoning. We wanted facts, things that could be demonstrated ...  Read More

READ HEBREWS 3:4  In early Genesis, God creates things like light and animals by speaking them into existence. God’s subsequent creation of us happens very differently; God creates us through the inti...  Read More

READ ROMANS 11:36I am amazed by so many things in this world. One of those things is the mutualistic symbiotic relationship between humans and plants. We provide the necessary carbon dioxide for plant...  Read More

READ AMOS 9:6 Amos was a shepherd and fig tree farmer from the Southern Kingdom, Judah. The book of Amos is a collection sermons, poems, and visions from Amos to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, ruled ...  Read More

READ Psalm 121:1-2 For many of us, it can be easy to buy into the lie that once we place our faith in Jesus, we’ll be free from trouble. I remember meeting Ken for the first time in a men’s Bible stud...  Read More

“16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”—1 John 2:16, NASB 95“1 Now the serpent ...  Read More