Are you looking for a Bible-reading plan for 2017? Consider this plan which is perfect for growing your familiarity with God’s Word.

I am still blown away by the idea that the God of the universe wants to communicate with us on a daily basis and that he has chose to do so in this miraculous book we call the Bible.

With a new year dawning, many Christian families will resolve to approach family devotions with greater faithfulness in the year ahead, or perhaps even to begin family devotions for the first time. These are great resolutions!

What does it mean to be a Christian in the 21st century? Can one be a Christian and yet doubt the virgin birth or the Resurrection? I put these questions to the Rev. Timothy Keller, an evangelical Christian pastor and best-selling author who is among the most prominent evangelical thinkers today.

This is the most important part of your day — not working frantically to “do, do, do” before the time runs out, but to come to Jesus and ask for his help. God doesn’t need productive workers to get his work done for him. He wants his children humbly to rest in him in all things. This starts for us in prayer.

If your life is not part of God’s grander purpose, then it is a purpose-less life, a wasted life—even if you do some really good things with it.

Every time you click, you say, “I want this — and more of this.” And someone hears you.

It’s odd and uncomfortable for me, a man, to look upon another man (even the God-man), and say ‘beautiful.’ Yet, I believe that expectation of men (indeed all people) is not only taught in Scripture but a necessary ingredient to saving faith.

Do you ask yourself how your job change could affect your church? Do you consider how your moving would impact the work of God through your church in your community? 

MacArthur takes these lessons out of Proverbs 1-10 and though he directs it from fathers to sons…He also adds a warning at the end of this section showing how our failure to teach each of these areas gives the devil the opportunity to teach the exact opposite.