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  • For the Heart
    • Practical Ideas for Laying Up Heavenly Treasure

      Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, May 6, 2025
    • Answer the Call: Why Are the Lost Unreached?

      M. R. Conrad, March 20, 2025
    • Resisting Slow Decay: Choosing Effort Over Ease

      M. R. Conrad, March 19, 2025
  • Knowing the Word
    • Agreement On These Truths Will Diminish Charismatic Confusion

      Avatar photo Seth Meyers, June 2, 2025
    • Do You Speak “Churchese”? Ask Jesus Into Your Heart

      M. R. Conrad, May 20, 2025
    • The Cosmic Gospel: Stewardship of The Mystery

      Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, April 23, 2025
  • Ministry
    • Do You Feel Called By God? Rethinking the Call to Ministry

      Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, May 27, 2025
    • Why Do We Say “Ask Jesus Into Your Heart”?

      M. R. Conrad, May 22, 2025
    • 17 Gospel Encouragements to Overcome Barriers to Biblical Hospitality

      Desiree Talbert, May 13, 2025
  • Quotes
    • Peter Rumachik: Russian Prison, Centipedes, and God at Work

      M. R. Conrad, May 2, 2025
    • Just Who Is Lottie Moon?

      M. R. Conrad, February 25, 2025
    • The Story You Never Heard: The Ecuador Missionary Who Survived

      M. R. Conrad, October 24, 2024
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Knowing the Word

Should Christians Drink Intoxicating Beverages? The Case for Abstinence

Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, October 3, 2023

This article represents the arguments of those that urge abstinence from potentially intoxicating beverages. What is the case for refraining from alcohol?

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Knowing the Word

Should Christians Drink Intoxicating Beverages? Compare the Production

Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, September 28, 2023

Christians need to understand the differences in the production and consumption of intoxicating beverages in Bible times compared to modern times. This difference is a significant concern that needs to be addressed as we ponder Christians and social drinking.

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Knowing the Word

Should Christians Drink Intoxicating Beverages: the Case for Social Drinking

Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, September 26, 2023

Many people believe that it is okay for Christians to drink intoxicating beverages if they are careful to keep sober. What are their arguments?

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Knowing the Word

Abide or Burn? Examining the Fire Imagery in John 15:6

M. R. Conrad, September 20, 2023

John 15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw …

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Book ReviewsMinistryQuotes

Joining the Battle of the Ages Through Prayer

Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, September 14, 2023

J.O. Fraser has inspired many Christians to take up the ministry of intercession, especially for missionaries.

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For the HeartKnowing the Word

Should Christians Drink Intoxicating Beverages? Here is the First Consideration.

Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, September 12, 2023

Whether your proclivity is to immediately side with total abstinence or allowance according to conscience, we need humility before God and His Word. We must strive to not take away from God’s revealed will or go beyond it.

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For the Heart

Two Words that Are Key to Becoming a Successful Missionary

Avatar photo Paul Schlehlein, September 7, 2023

You won’t like my answer, but here it is anyway: Endure hardness. There are no shortcuts to becoming a successful missionary. There’s no quick, alternative …

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Book Reviews

Is Your Phone Changing You?

Avatar photo Paul Schlehlein, September 5, 2023

Review of Tony Reinke, Crossway, 224 pages, 4 of 5 stars I read this book slowly because I hate how often I check my smartphone (SP). …

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Book ReviewsQuotes

Possibly the Best Missionary Biography You Have Never Heard Of: The Life of Lilias Trotter

M. R. Conrad, August 31, 2023

Trotter, a wealthy young woman from an aristocratic British family, turned her back on a promising artistic career to become a missionary to Muslim women in the north African nation of Algeria.

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Ministry

The Christian, A Fireman

M. R. Conrad, August 29, 2023

Does it seem to you that ministry sometimes devolves into a frantic cycle of putting out fires? Where do these fires come from? If you …

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