Has anyone ever asked you if you were hungry? Chances are, they asked not purely because they cared about your well-being, but because they were hungry too. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course—it’s not like we should take offense to such a question—but the point is that motivations can be more complicated than meets the eye. That’s important...

As a new believer, I began a quest to know everything I could about my new faith and the object of my faith, Jesus. I was reading everything I could get my hands on. I read about prayer, evangelism, suffering, salvation, grace, and Scripture (I even read Scripture too). But I hit a wall when I reached one specific...

On December 31, 1961, W. A. Criswell, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, spent several hours walking his congregation through the Bible’s grand narrative, tracing the “scarlet thread through the Bible.” Criswell repeated this journey on other occasions and added a significant amount of material. But it’s the original sermon from Criswell that was later transcribed and...

As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God’s word, he was standing by Lake Gennesaret. He saw two boats at the edge of the lake; the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then he...

I haven’t had a good relationship with riding lawnmowers. One of the times when we lived in Florida, I had an old riding mower that I used on my acre+ property. But it seems like every single time I went out to mow, there would be something wrong with it such as a flat tire or it wouldn’t start....

Why did Jesus talk about fishing for people? That’s the question we’re discussing on The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: What Jesus’ “fishing for people” / “fishers of men” reference tells us about His humanity, and our calling as disciplesWhat we can learn from Peter’s response to Jesus’ miracle in Luke 5How this event point...