As a part of Home For The Holidays advent devotional, I have included weekly games and activities for families to direct their attention toward Christ this Christmas season. If you have your copy of Home for the Holidays, you may have already read about the Christmas Hopes activity. If not, keep reading to see how …
Do you trust the Lord? Do you really trust him completely? If so, what keeps you from giving him an unqualified yes? You can be useable in God’s kingdom. God uses ordinary believers to do his work. He doesn’t need to look for specially equipped people for his service. Instead, God calls his people to …
If you could change one thing about your home this Christmas season, what would it be? On this episode of the podcast, I discuss my new book, Home for the Holidays. Home for the Holidays is an Advent devotional I have written that I hope will help you restore hope, love, joy, and peace in …
If you could change one thing about your home this Christmas season, what would it be? I suspect for many of you, you would love to find a way to focus on Christ more intentionally this Christmas season. My new (and first) book, Home for the Holidays was written to help you and your family …
Dr. Bryan Chapell is the leader of the Administrative Committee of the Presbyterian Church in America and serves as Pastor Emeritus of the historic Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois and President Emeritus of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Chapell has authored numerous books and is also a husband, father, and grandfather of six grandchildren. On this …
Eight days after Jesus’s resurrection, John 20 tells us the disciples were hiding out in a locked room. It is in this passage of Scripture that Thomas gets his unfortunate nickname. In John 20:25, Thomas announces, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of …
“Forgive my unbelief.” This was the cry of a father in the gospel of Mark who doubted Jesus’ ability to cast a spirit out of his son. In the presence of Jesus, the father suddenly felt convicted for his unbelief. There was a time in Western culture not too long ago where “unbelief” was a …
In Acts 10, you can read the account of Peter’s vision of a sheet being lowered down with all kinds of animals and God commanding him to take and eat. Acts 1o is the definitive moment in Acts where God corrects the understanding of the early church and commands them to go to the Gentiles. …
I have two boys who play football and an entire family who enjoys football. Football consumes multiple nights of my life this time of year and is often on our television. I love the game and I’m happy my boys play. I used to talk about all the lessons I learned playing football. But, in …
John 3 tells the story of a man named Nicodemus. John tells us that this man, Nicodemus, was a ruler of the Jews and was a Pharisee. The Pharisees were famously religious, but not always godly. They liked to show off their religiosity in public, but often “neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, …