Podcast: A Beginner's Guide to Fasting (Cassie Achermann)

Cassie Achermann discusses what fasting is, how the Bible talks about it, and how you can begin to practice it.

How (and How Not) to Fast

Cassie Achermann

At times, the Bible is heavy on warnings. That’s the case for the topic of fasting. It can be frustrating to those of us who want a straightforward instruction manual for this spiritual discipline.

What Is the Sabbath?

Megan Hill

In a lifetime of “anxious toil,” we need a regular reset. Day after day, the tasks just keep coming, and while the Bible affirms the goodness of work, it also acknowledges its frustrations.

Why Does Jesus Silence People Who Say Who He Is? (Mark 1)

Hans F. Bayer

Generally speaking, Jesus had to defer the full disclosure of his identity because God’s Messiah was to die and be raised from death in order to be enthroned as the eternal Messiah-ruler.

10 Key Bible Verses on Hell

”But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”

6 Ways Predestination Is an Outworking of God’s Love

Sam Storms

Predestination is that act in eternity past in which God ordained or decreed that those he had set his steadfast love on would inherit eternal life.