The Word in Ten

Doug O'Malley opens a series on four encounters with Jesus in Luke 7, starting with the Roman centurion — a powerful, well-respected man who understood authority better than most, and whose humility turned out to be the...

Brad Dufault examines Jeremiah 2:13, where God accuses Israel of two sins: forsaking him as the spring of living water and digging broken cisterns that can't hold water. He explains that turning from God always involves...

Brad Dufault examines Philippians 2:13, unpacking two distinct ways God works in believers: giving power to act on good desires, and actually changing what we want in the first place. He addresses a common...

Brad Dufault unpacks Jesus' vine and branches metaphor from John 15:5, breaking it into four elements: Jesus as the source of life, believers as dependent yet valuable branches, abiding as an ongoing relationship of...

Brad Dufault examines Romans 8:32, tracing Paul's logical argument that since God didn't withhold his own son, he will graciously give us all things. He addresses the natural tension this raises—why does life still...

Conrad wraps up the series in Mark 10 with Jesus' answer to all the striving — a kingdom where greatness looks like servitude, not dominance. The reason Jesus could wash his disciples' feet, and the reason we can serve...

Conrad continues in Mark 10, adding two more distinctions to the anatomy of striving for superiority — excellence versus superiority, and being better versus being recognized as better. With examples ranging from Magic...

Conrad traces a thread through Scripture that runs from Cain and Abel all the way to James and John angling for seats at Jesus' right and left — the persistent human drive toward superiority. Drawing on Mark 10, he...

Ben Foust wraps up the series in Philippians 4 with Paul's final instruction: discipline your focus. You can't turn off anxious thoughts, but you can displace them — and research backs up what Scripture has always said...

Ben Foust works through Philippians 4:6-7 and the practical question anxious people actually ask: what am I supposed to do with my fears? Paul's answer isn't to ignore them or obsess over them — it's to pray them, using...

Ben Foust continues in Philippians 4, making the case that most of our go-to strategies for managing anxiety backfire because they're all attempts to do the job of a sovereign God. Accepting our own limitations — and...

Ben Foust opens a four-part series on anxiety from Philippians 4, starting with what anxiety actually is — and why Paul's command to "rejoice" isn't a platitude. The foundation for addressing worry, he argues, isn't...

Ryan Lowery concludes the Joseph series as Joseph goes from prisoner to Egypt's second-in-command in a single morning, then faces his brothers who unknowingly bow before him—fulfilling his dream from 20 years earlier...

Ryan Lowery traces Joseph's dramatic rise from condemned prisoner to Egypt's second-in-command after interpreting Pharaoh's dream about famine—a reversal that happened in a single morning after 13 years of suffering. He...

Ryan Lowery continues Joseph's story as he's sold into slavery in Egypt, rises to manage Potiphar's household, refuses sexual advances from Potiphar's wife, and gets falsely accused of rape—landing in prison for doing...