COVID-19 has forced the church into exile. What can we learn from exile? How should we respond?

COVID-19 has caused the church to be in exile. The Bible often speaks of exile. What can those exiles teach us today?

Learn how fear robs from you and makes you a control freak.

Are Christians protected from COVID-19? If not, then what is the hope the Bible offers?

How to forgive is modeled for us by Jesus. Jesus bore our sins so that we can bear the sins of others… absorbing their sin against us like a sponge. Can you believe God for that?

Choosing not to forgive an offender makes sense. But if that’s your choice, you are only adding to your pain. Forgiveness frees you from you hurt and opens you to a new life.

How do you face the injustices in your life? Today, we live in an age of outrage. But Jesus showed a different way.

Many people struggle with a lack of purpose and often give up on life. We can look to Jesus to see how his sense of purpose gave him the ability to endure all things.

Jesus clearly lived under the pressure of stress but he did two things that researchers have proven to be effective in dealing with stress. Quotes from “The Upside of Stress” by Kelly McGonigal.

Betrayal is common in the Bible but it’s common in everyday life. How do you respond and overcome it? This post gives you a start.

In this post, Remy offers ten ways you can develop self control in order to resist temptation based on the book, The Willpower Instinct.

Self control is one of the biggest predictors of success. But why is it so hard to obtain? F. Remy Diederich looks at four roadblocks to self-control and overcoming temptation in this post.

When suicide takes a loved one, it’s a painful, confusing time. These words, spoken at a funeral of a victim of suicide, might help you if you have lost a loved one.

Nothing can be worse than losing a child. How does one recover from something like that? This brief post points the way to how to grieve and move on from the loss of a child.

When you suffer a tragedy it’s easy to want to connect some spiritual meaning to it. But be careful not to over spiritualize a tragedy.

This is part two in a three part series on tragedy and loss. In this post F. Remy Diederich looks at our need to blame someone in the face of tragedy, even God.

Tragedy and loss happen to everyone at some point. But many of us don’t have a theology of suffering, that is, an understanding of God as it relates to suffering. This is part one of a three part series of posts.

This is part three of a a three part series on Generosity and Jesus. This post looks at the fears that make us selfish.

Greed is the opposite of generosity. Greed fills you with darkness while generosity draws you close to God. These are some of the thoughts Jesus spoke about in his Sermon on the Mount.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus showed people how to be salt and light in the world. One way is to be generous with your money.