Spiritual Gifts: Overview

Popularity and pluralism are idolized in our culture. Certainly God does want us to have an influence in our world, among our circles. But...

Spiritual Gifts: Specific Characteristics, Misuses, Examples and Instructions

How do you feel about the work you have to do? The leftover jobs that seem relegated to you? The menial or mundane? Assuming the...

Family finances involve major decisions. Every family faces financial needs, and the world offers almost as many ways of meeting those...

Did the Lord ever make anyone without value? What would life be like if I decided to find that value in people? What would my relationships...

With God, hope can be a reality! In this motherly message, Teri Maxwell shares a testimony about four ways God helped her to be positive (...

A motorcycle crash, finding one's life partner, and a car accident: what do all three have in common? Jim Sammons, with his quick wit and...

Family Conferences are an enjoyable time for the whole family! Fellowship with friends and powerful preaching make for a full week . . ....

For Megan Scheibner, disciple-making is one aspect of her life purpose. She shares how this discipline is possible for busy moms. Indeed,...

If the Advanced Training Institute is a father's tool for raising up sons and daughters that know how to incorporate basic principles of...

Homeschoolers can be in the world but not of the world! Mrs.

Elisabeth Elliot Gren, in her endearing, yet practical manner, issues a gentle reminder to young ladies that they can choose their...

Dean Miller wants you to ace it in life's journey through this wicked world. His message tells about a young man who came from a troubled...

To stand before kings, to face them, to face their problems, as Daniel did, will take a serious education. And serious education entails...

In the second chapter of Revelation, Jesus Christ lovingly exhorts the hard-working Christians of Ephesus to return to their first Love. In...

"Snatch From the Fire" is the compelling life story of Christian chalk artist Esther Frye (1915-2011).

A short word of encouragement, for pastors, from a pastor . . . a pastor who felt that his work, his ministry, his church had become all...

Even as Christians, if our eyes are on the circumstances and people around us we are sure to find something to complain about. Our tendency...

How exciting to find out what God has put in our children's hearts! Uncertain, definitely.

In February 2018, ATI Family Weekly host Robert Newhouse was invited by Dr. Stephen Chen to travel with him throughout Taiwan. Dr.

As Adrian Rogers says “No one fell asleep while Jesus was preaching!” His command to love our enemies heralded a revolutionary watershed...

Have you ever been to a restaurant and reached for the salt shaker, only to find that the salt had become hardened inside it from lack of...

There's something special about doing what you know is right, faithfully. Distractions and temptations abound, to be sure, and yet the...

Many Basic Seminar alumni whose marriages and families were restored at a Basic Seminar have wanted to come back and share the answers they...

Our Lord and Savior deserves it all, right now and always! He is trustworthy. He is faithful with His own. In the beginning He made us in...

Most everyone likes to make lists. Especially a single person! The one who is waiting for God to bring along his or her mate probably has a...

On occasion we forget to worship. We feel like a small candle in a vast dark room whose light is flickering, sputtering, about to go out....

Dr. Stephen Chen and his wife, Anna, live in Taiwan. Their adult son and youngest child, Timothy, also lives with them and ministers with...

From sweltering 120˚ copper mines in Arizona to frigid -20˚ weather in Mongolia, Mr. Warner recounts his testimony of God's faithfulness to...

We may be willing to die for freedom as Americans. But would we be willing to give up our lives for Christ? At first, dying to our will,...

One day we will enjoy the prize. That is the reward of both physical and spiritual disciplines. Whether it's running a mile in the early...

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). When Lew Sterrett first heard these...

Fathers: What draws your attention when the work day is over? A messy house? A broken stove? A disobedient child? An online temptation? Don...

The church in Corinth was out of order. The church should have been exerting a powerful positive influence on the city. However, the...

If you're up for a good story, you'll enjoy this in-depth re-telling of Ruth's true love story by Pastor Fraley. He incorporates several...

Best known for The Pineapple Story, Otto Koning’s testimony has ministered to thousands of people around the world. The answer God showed...

Have you been classifying your circumstances as "good" or "bad" lately? For Keon Pendergast, his wife, and his four children, the...

Many and varied motives undergird the mission objectives of today's organizations, including Christian corporations, small businesses, and...

Well, it's time to make a plan. Pick one of the five areas: Person, Provider, Partner, Parent, or Proclaimer and do the things God has led...

After Pearl Harbor, Jacob DeShazer flew with the Doolittle Raiders against Japan. It ended up costing him forty months in confinement as a...

After covering the Explanation and Theory of the Apprenticeship Planning Guide in the last session, Richard Altman next presents an...

Leadership from the Lord's perspective is certainly different than leadership from a humanistic perspective. As a young person, why not ask...

You never know when the need will arise for good manners. That's why mannerly conduct ought to be second nature--especially for believers!...