February 17, 2022 | Philippians 3:10-11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Scientists think they’ve identified the part of our brains that responds to familiar faces. An area known as the temporal region may be connected to the way we recognize faces. Perhaps this is what allows us to know people when we see them. I want […]
June 6, 2021 | Psalm 78 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In his classic work Knowing God, J. I. Packer points out the difference between knowing about God and knowing God. He understood that it was possible for someone to have sound theology, know the Bible well, be involved in ministry, and yet not really have […]
KNOWING RIGHT FROM WRONG February 7, 2020 | Esther 2:12–18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Can you imagine having a full year of spa treatments? It might sound luxurious to us, but for the young women in Susa, any pleasure that might have been enjoyed was certainly mixed with grief, fear, and shame. When it was […]
THE GIFT OF KNOWING GOD April 5, 2019 | Acts 17:16–34 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue A great number of people today consider themselves agnostic, meaning they don’t believe there is enough evidence to confirm or deny the existence of God. British philosopher Bertrand Russell explained the difference between a Christian, an atheist, and an agnostic: […]