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

How to Grow in Your Spiritual Walk (Part 2)

Life can be busy. Finding peace and order can feel like an impossible mission. The very pursuit of simplicity may seem to produce only...

We've all heard the command, "In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (I Thessalonians 5:18...

In our relationship with God, obeying His Word is important. However, there is a deeper aspect of our walk, which is the “keeping” of His...

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

Simple obedience can yield abundant results.

How do you begin to describe the awesome power and might of the King of kings and the Lord of lords? How can you describe someone that...

How do you hear the voice of God? After all, a difference does exist between simply hearing His words and actually detecting His voice. Tom...

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...

Having faith in our own faith is becoming a widespread problem among Christians. Those who profess to know Christ feel that at times their...

Have you ever considered how dangerous it may be to know the truth without experiencing its life-changing work? Before rewarding us with...

Faithful is He who has called us … so we can do it! Right? Before jumping into active obedience to God's calling, revisit with Gabe Cleator...

Something must happen for genuine agape love to resume it's place in modern Christianity.

As a parent, there is a certain focus in life that can inspire our children to say what we've always wanted to hear them say: “That's what...

Once the Gospel begins to bear it's fruit in our lives, God's work is not over. His Holy Spirit continues that work. My sin nature must be...

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

From the light of his countenance you would never guess that, like Paul, Dan Lucarini once scorned the new life he now preaches.

In the year 1900, Americans identified seventy-two things they deemed essential to happiness. By 1950 it was nearly 500 things. Do you...

Flight is a miracle. Thanks to some stunning videography and computer-generated imagery, in this video we can watch a hungry owl swoop in...

Maybe, right now where there should be joy in your heart, there is pain. Maybe where there should be unreserved confidence in the kindness...

What if you had the power to change some of the circumstances you face in life? Would you use that power? Pastor Bob Gray II and his wife...

Once again Mrs. Hendry showcases the rich array of  reading options we have for our children. Great historical heroes and heroines of the...

How does Jesus remind you of His everlasting love? It could be just waking up in the morning! Or, maybe it's a pink sunset, like it is for...

Dr. Logan has long sought to share intimacy with God. Through their times alone, the Lord has shown him some major differences between...

Teaching children to love Jesus is often a parent's greatest motivation to keep loving Jesus themselves! Raising children definitely grows...

The desire for our children to have their own walk with the Lord is the desire of many Christian parents. Public worship too is good but to...

Has the church lost the power that it had in the first century? Dr. John Morgan shares the joyful testimonies God has given to a church...

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...

As a scientist, dentist, missionary, Christian and family man, Dr. Jobe Martin has a revealing perspective on the trends of popular thought...

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

"It's about time!" This exclamation is usually expressed to us when we finally do the one thing that is most important to someone with whom...

In this first of three messages in his short series, Roy shares a very wise perspective on what Christians can look to when they suffer....

Are you yearning to experience heaven?  Since medieval times, God's people have had this longing.  In response, many spiritual leaders have...

As the darkness of Communism fell on twentieth-century Romania, a pastor wondered what it would cost him to continue preaching the truth....

Janny Moore can identify with imperfection. She also knows that, as young ladies, we tend to look in the mirror to come up with our self-...

Praying is a little different than covering everything in prayer. Husbands and dads have the privilege of being the coverers.

Our sons and daughters can be protected from severe and unnecessary problems. That's because prayer isn't just for adults. When the...

From the forest floor to the highest canopy, rainforests are a showcase for the animal world. In the next few minutes, you can explore and...

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....

Perfection is something we all strive for to some extent, whether it be in our work ethic, family life, or the hobbies we enjoy. However,...

Maybe you have been praying for many years. Maybe you have just begun to pray faithfully. Maybe you want to pray more specifically and...

Many books are written about how to lead. When Peter Magnuson ran a query on leadership titles in Amazon, it yielded more than 50,000...

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...

Does our church have the same priorities the early church did? Jesus said, “My house shall be called a house of prayer …” (Matthew 21:13)....

Beyond physical fitness or the virtues of good behavior is a basic human need for everlasting, glorious, spiritual vitality. As Pastor Ken...

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

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...

From the carrion, cow pies, and compost piles we see by the road or in the yard, to a worldwide flood several thousand years ago--or even...

What father hasn't been inspired by the family portrait shown in chapter 6 of Deuteronomy? Under this high bar of “teaching diligently,”...

"It's Him!" In this sermon, given for the IBLP Family Conference themed "Walk in the Light", Pastor Peter Magnuson creates an anticipation...