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For many people, stewardship can feel like a part of discipleship that they never got around to. If you feel guilty about your giving, your wallet isn’t the first place to start though. Paul gives four corrections that can help.

When it comes to money, we often fixate on more. The Israelites weren’t all that much different, but God worked to turn Israel into a generous nation. Consider how He shaped their lives and what it might reveal about how He might transform us today.

When couples don’t learn how to handle conflicts well, they end up tearing down the very person they committed their lives to. And because marriage is so intimate, words said in anger and conflicts that turn ugly hurt more than in any other relationship. If your conflicts don’t get resolved, there may be one or more of these three problems getting in the way.

Many people are naturally encouraging with their friends. And they’re polite and uplifting to clerks, servers, and strangers. But often the filter comes off when they walk through their front door, and their spouse gets the worst of their words. Couples may think that their biggest problem is that thing they can’t agree on, but often it’s the way they speak with one another that can do the most damage. The Bible helps us rethink how we communicate with our partner.

When a spouse fails to listen well, the problems that were signalled with cues and comments early on grow into something much bigger, and their partner can be left feeling unheard and unloved. This post looks at how to improve listening and reflect the way that God Himself sees and hears us.

Through an earth-bound happy ending, Job’s final chapter teaches important lessons about eternal life. They’re the very lessons we’re to cling to when trials come. What made Job’s suffering so hard was that he didn’t know how his story would end. Thanks to him, we can know how ours will.

More and more about our world feels senseless and unjust. And then, when a crisis hits in our own personal circumstances, it only strengthens the doubts: Does God know what He’s doing? An encounter with God pictured in the Book of Job gives us some truths to hang onto when the pain is deep, and life doesn’t make sense.

When you’re being bullied, it can feel like your world is shutting down. Abusers have a way of making you feel as if there’s no escape and make you doubt yourself, your view of reality, and your hope. Faith may not remove bullying, but it can give you solid reasons for hope when everything around you tells you to despair.

We hear people talking more and more today about karma. The word expresses the cause-and-effect principle whereby a person’s actions determine what will happen to them. Understanding how the Bible introduces the concept of karma helps us see its weaknesses and where its remedy lies.

Sometimes, our struggles with grief and depression are made worse by feelings of guilt. We feel badly that we’re not more optimistic about what we’re going through. Often the problems is that we’ve underestimated the depth of human pain and missed the balance of the Bible’s teaching regarding suffering.

When suffering enters our lives, we naturally ask difficult questions. But the Book of Job reveals a deeper question being asked of us: Do we love God only for His gifts, or because He is worthy of worship?

Recently, I had a comment from a listener who said, “If you give the same Bible to two billion people and tell them to interpret it for themselves, won’t they come up with more than two billion interpretations?” They then explained that the Catholic solution to this problem is the Pope. I'd like to consider the problem the listener raises and the solution that he offers.

Many people are anxious about current events. If you’re one of them, these biblical truths about the future may help you reframe how you see the headlines and find peace amid the noise.

From Constantine to modern politics, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between church and state. This article explains the biblical distinction between the two and why the gospel advances through persuasion and spiritual power, not coercion and political force.

Should Christians support laws that make it harder to be Muslim? If you had the political power to outlaw atheism, would you use it? Should religious freedom be a Christian right or a human right? Many people haven’t thought carefully about these questions, but history shows us why we should.