The love which newlyweds experience need not end with the arrival of children! This collection of practical tips offers a foundation of...

What has Christianity become in America? It may be that American Christianity is the most deceptive and far-reaching substitute yet for the...

Truth and Its Actual Effects upon Personal Living, Family and Society

The Principle of Freedom

In this powerful message, Doug Small uses the statistics of this increasingly fatherless nation to clarify a unique and needful perspective...

How to Grow in Your Spiritual Walk (Part 2)

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

What Today's Youth Can Do to Conquer Goliath and His Brothers Taming the tongue Identifying and conquering pride Avoiding hypocrisy...

Tom Harmon challenges young people to remember their Creator in the days of their youth, to realize the far-reaching consequences of every...

As a Christian, have you ever realized that you have the power to present the moral values of Scripture in ways that both religious and...

In Matthew 5,6,7, Christ preached the greatest oration on earth, the Sermon on the Mount. In it, He said that Christians are like salt to...

Music wields universal influence over families, churches, and cultures around the world. And no wonder. For God, Himself is musical by...

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...

Love, truth and reality seem to have gotten their lines mixed up on today's stage. But what would happen if those who know the Person...

In biology, pressure is responsible for bringing about energy, life, and beauty. Who other than the tempter would suggest anything...

Why do we need to define worship? We all know the answer: With time we tend to change our focus, even without knowing it, from Christ to...

Ever since the time Doug Small shared this simple message from Genesis 18 with our staff in Oak Brook, it has been a favorite, a kind of...

What carries the Biblical worldview from generation to generation? What is it that makes our children grow up wanting to love and follow...

Saul had little warning when he was selected to rule as Israel’s king. But his heart was changed from that day forward. What about you?...

Salvation, by God's great grace, is a life-changing experience. What if we were to allow His great grace to continue its work in our lives...

The world may be waging a fierce battle for the minds and hearts of the next generation. Yet God's purity and power are greater. We can be...

Let's take a look at the Lord's prayer. After all it is the Lord's prayer. It reveals His heart as Savior and Lord. As Savior, He chose to...

Otto Koning draws on his own firsthand experiences of being used by God in the spread of the Gospel face-to-face with the demon-possessed,...

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...

Dr. Jobe Martin knows what it is like to believe in and live on assumptions. Like agnostics, Christians too, are sometimes tempted to...

In May 2013, the six-member Cada family van turned into the filled parking lot. Brian heard his wife and oldest son exclaim together, “We’...

In the early twentieth centruy the American public school system was redesigned explicitly to destroy the family bond, thoroughly eliminate...

Combing principles from the Basic, Advanced and Financial Freedom Seminars, David Rogers brings refreshing perspective to the...

A legendary collection of true missionary stories, filled with accounts of God's great faithfulness from almost every continent.

Could it be that our problems are the answers to our prayers?

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...

Gil Bates has a clearly-stated goal for his family: to lead them in the Lord's ways. But the Lord had to coach him first. Gil's testimony...

Coming from the land of kangaroos, koalas, emus, wombats, and wallabies, Kylie travels internationally and knows what it feels like not to...

A bright light on a dark horizon? Yes ... Learn from David Barton the amazing things that have happened in the twenty-first century as...

Lack of leadership in the Christian home. This problem is a growing problem.

When the time comes to die, we all want to look back over life and have miraculous stories to tell of the ways God used us in His kingdom!...

As the Cada family began the ATI program, the Lord surprised them with the interconnectedness of faith and practice. They found that...

How do you turn straying thoughts into a deeper experience of the freedom of Christ? Jim Sammons, like a battle hardened soldier, brings to...

Enough time has gone by that we ought to know what things do and do not pass the test of transferral to sons and daughters, grandsons and...

How do you identify and remove the obstructions to your family vision before it's too late?

Have you ever thought that Lot may have left Abraham because of the failures that he had seen in Abraham's personal life? For sons and...

When a Christian finds himself surrounded by a world of evil, what is the basic strategy he can follow to keep himself and his family...

Immigration, terrorism, and anarchy. It seems these three issues would give any human being an excuse to feel like a victim. Yet are we...

As a Christian, have you become accustomed to being on defense? With all we have to offer people, it's amazing that we hesitate as often as...

Neither the ethical crisis America faces in this century, nor a potential reformation for its rescue, are without precedent in the history...

We grow up. Life speeds up. Our focus gradually gravitates to the pressing needs of the present! How refreshing it is to be reminded that...

What is God's design for the relationship of government, family and church? In this message, David Barton provides clear definitions and...

Don Richardson, missionary and riveting story-teller, shares stories of taking the Gospel to unreached people groups. God earnestly intends...

How do I know I've been called by God? Should I look for logical indications that support the call? Can I expect God to confirm my ministry...

If it's wise to count the cost before making a major decision, you certainly want to count the cost before marriage. How do you do that?...

Have you ever felt that the giant you are trying to conquer has never been conquered before? Enter the arena with David, Job, George...

Since the days of Paul, Christians worldwide have been encouraged—strongly encouraged

It didn't make sense. The way to get out was to get in? Condescending to enter into the problems of those under his care was the last thing...

The first time that Otto Koning used the name of Jesus Christ to win a spiritual battle, it was to save his own life. The saving power of...

As the spiritual leader of your family, you may wonder how you can discuss heart issues with your children without losing their hearts (or...

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

This thought-provoking message by Jerry Benjamin, the second in a series, once again prompts a person to ask what his motives are for the...

What family was more amazing than the Bates family? Than Noah's family? Abraham's? Isaac's? Jacob's? Find what Mr.

What does good character look like? Wes Cantrell served in the business world for forty-six years and during that time he and his wife...

“There must be more to the Christian life.” Have you experienced this feeling before? Realizations similar to this often precipitate...

Teaching all nations can be a daunting task! How did Jesus do it? He made disciples and He taught the multitudes ... but He also sought to...

"Our flesh is very creative. It knows how to refine itself. It knows how to polish itself. It knows how to perfect itself. But it is still...

Do you run the risk of becoming a modern day Capernaum?

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...

Whether they affect nations, cities or families, ideas come with consequences. Times may change but the ideas behind our country's most...

This message is Jerry Benjamin’s third in a series. With his usual fervor, Benjamin prompts us as human beings to ask, “Why would we ever...

If a society becomes confused, there is a reason. If the definition of right and wrong is not clear, what can be?

In the beginning God infused the beautiful and self-sustaining principle of authority at every level of his creation. And since that time...

Often music's dynamics and how it plays upon our hearts and lives can be difficult to describe. A different vocabulary is needed, and even...

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of themselves” (II Timothy 3:1-2a). “Self-love”...

Christopher Sirard, an anesthesiologist, lives with his wife and seven children in California. Christopher acknowledges that growing in...

Revival does not come overnight. David Barton lists five clear prerequisites for long-range change, demonstrated in the wisdom and...

If Noah could have a family working for God, worshiping God, and walking with God, then you can have a family working for God, worshiping...

Who can do the work of God's Spirit—the Spirit of holiness! Yes, to witness the Spirit's work, to see conviction break out, is a wonderful...

Every once in a while it is a good thing to ask simply "What defines a nation?", "Why do we have the form of government we do?" or, perhaps...

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

Keith Daniel's calling is to be a watchman on the wall. In America, throughout South Africa and around the globe his message of repentance...

As a young person, it's easy to wonder, "What is the purpose God has for my life?" Do you have a Jacob-like tenacity to "not let go" unless...

Fulfilling the Great Commission will be of utmost urgency until the last unreached people group is reached. The Great Commission is still...

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

Gopher wood was quite an unusual species among all the other types of wood furnished by the trees of the world. Hear an interesting sermon...

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

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ..." (John 3:16). From Israel to India world missions are God's own work.

It is difficult for the free world to understand that Satan can convince entire people groups to embrace a "religion" with moral codes,...

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

As a traveling evangelist, Keith Daniel witnessed a wide spectrum of marriage relationships. For example, one husband and wife seemed to “...

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 Advanced Training Institute Wisdom Booklets are rooted firmly in the fact that God can teach us best when, as a family, we look to Him...

“Ready to learn?” With this simple invitation, Josef Tson invites us as American Christians to reevaluate what we have been taught...

In our nation, a single person's commitment to truth does matter. My ability to share the truth of the Good News will matter to the those...

Even amateur campers know the value of a rope, but what is a manty? What makes it as valuable as a rope to outdoorsmen of the Far West?

The unsaved may not ever read God's specific revelation, the Bible. His general revelation however is a constant source of curiosity. That...

Down through the ages many techniques have been suggested for "the furtherance of the Gospel". Roger Magnuson helps us to sift through them...

The Temple was the Lord's house. You would think the house of God would have always been impeccably clean, right? Wrong! Like King Josiah,...

Did our Founding Fathers steal land from the “Indians” or the Mexicans? A historical question such as this one, as well as questions about...

It's sobering when God tells a man "You'll either let My Word crush you or you will crush your children". He is always the same, His Word...

From his experience teaching ethics in the navy, Steve Scheibner has shocking evidence for the moral shift that is taking place among young...

With all the conveniences we enjoy here at home, it is easy to forget about spiritual warfare. The battle is taking place right now between...

Think about it. Capitalism and compassion have worked together pretty well in our country. Weigh the facts for yourself as Darren Myers...

"Another discourse on faith?" you may ask. Yes, but not just another discourse on faith. Keith Daniel takes up the Bible and comes straight...

Very few have come to Christ only by reading the Bible. For most, God used other people, such as our parents or a pastor, to help us to...

Dr. Stephen Chen, his wife, Anna, and their adult son, Timothy, work with the IBLP ministry in Taiwan. One of Anna’s responsibilities is...

Rick Green shares an insightful summary of why Christians should become actively involved in American politics. Learn the blessings of a...

Another call to rise up and share the Gospel would come as another exhausting to-do were it not coupled with the rousing fact that we are...

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