July 31, 2024
The voices raised in worship singing this wonderful hymn spilled out of open windows into the warm Kenyan surroundings. But, coming a little closer to the gathering, you would hear the words being sung by more than 80 people in Amharic, Swahili, Oromo, Somali, and Tigrinya—heart languages from the Horn of Africa.
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July 31, 2024
The only antidote we have against a world of apostasy is the Word of God. Understanding and applying Scripture is the only resource and recourse that will help us combat the evil of false teachers. Paul tells Timothy to continue in the things he has learned. Timothy has had a godly heritage and grew up on the Word of God. Now he needs to grow in his salvation.
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July 31, 2024
At the end of his life Paul said, “I’ve fought the good fight, I’ve finished the race, I’ve kept the faith” (4:7). It was worth it, he concluded. This, his final letter, will encourage us all to press on.
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July 31, 2024
Paul wrote to Timothy about how to continue on without him—about how to grow a healthy and strong local assembly of believers organized for a common purpose: the glory of God.
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July 31, 2024
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As I write this, I’m pondering the glory of God—what is it? What does it mean to do all things “to the glory of God”?
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July 04, 2024
When the Bible says “meditate,” God is asking us to “ponder.” Different from just reading or studying, meditating is sitting with God’s truth for a while—giving it careful consideration.
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July 04, 2024
This small book is the saddest book in the Bible. It’s Jeremiah’s funeral dirge, like he’s singing the blues as he walked the destroyed streets of Jerusalem.
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July 04, 2024
Jeremiah tells of a future day when God promises to restore His people who are now being disciplined.
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July 04, 2024
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Every month when Steve and I talk on-air with you about how God is working in and through the ministry, you likely hear us laugh. The open doors just aren’t stopping. We laugh because you can’t make this stuff up.
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July 04, 2024
“We take these trips,” Gregg says, “to see what God is doing, to discern it, and to lend our support to how people are using THRU the BIBLE in their area. Then, we bring back the news to you who partner with us in taking the whole Word to the whole world."
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May 30, 2024
Paul gets very practical and gives us three different ways we demonstrate that we believe in the coming of Christ. It will impact our attitude toward the Word, our walk, and our work.
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May 30, 2024
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The Bible Bus is scaling the heights of Scripture this month, giving us glorious views of the past, present, and future from the book of Isaiah. From this magnificent perspective we see how God is sovereign.
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May 30, 2024
Did Jesus already come back? Did we miss Him? That’s what the Christians in Thessalonica were concerned about. Someone spread the rumor that Jesus had already gathered the church and they were living in the Great Tribulation. Paul wrote this letter to assure them that “our gathering together with Him” is yet future.
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May 30, 2024
When the new church gathering in Thessalonica around 50 a.d. read the letters Paul wrote them, they had only followed Jesus Christ as Savior for about a month. This first letter comforted them with solid teaching about Jesus’ return.
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May 30, 2024
Every so often, I stop and take in the breadth and depth of the work being done through our efforts as partners in ministry.
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April 29, 2024
We were recently thrilled to connect with Alisha Barkman, who told us how her missionary family is using THRU the BIBLE to serve the Chuuk people. Here’s her story.
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April 29, 2024
What brings life’s greatest satisfaction? Ask anyone who has walked with God for a long time, and they’ll likely say a similar thing: To know you are doing what pleases God. But how do you know God’s will? With that as our foundation, let’s peek into the throne room of heaven at a glimpse of God never seen before ....
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April 29, 2024
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The Bible Bus is scaling the heights of Scripture this month, giving us glorious views of the past, present, and future from the book of Isaiah. From this magnificent perspective we see how God is sovereign.
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April 29, 2024
The fifth Gospel. That’s what many call the book of Isaiah, as Jesus’ birth, His character, His life, His death, His resurrection, and His second coming are all presented with definiteness and clarity, yet written 700 years before Jesus Christ was born. Specifically, Isaiah invites us to see something of the suffering of Christ that we’ll not find anywhere else.
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March 28, 2024
All the way from Abel to John the Baptist, Scripture uses the figure of the lamb. This verse from Isaiah was what the Ethiopian eunuch was reading when Philip climbed up into his chariot. The Ethiopian asked Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about, himself or another?” Philip said it was Another who was yet to come, and he told him about Jesus who had come as the Lamb led to the slaughter.
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