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Discouragement can come at us from many sources. Mark leads our prayer time today asking God to help us be strong and courageous in the face of all difficulties.

PERSONALIZED WORKOUT OPTION: Exciting news — adapt today’s spiritual workout to what’s happening in your  life right now. Our new digital librarian will pull personalized content for your workout and guide you through four simple steps to help you apply Scripture to your life today. Try it out HERE>>> STEP 1 - RECEIVE (Receive God's Word and Grow in Bible Knowledge) Do you sometimes wonder who is worthy of your prayers? Do you sometimes feel that someone is too far gone in t

Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious and afraid? Where do you turn to find relief? How well does that work? Shannon joins us today to share some wisdom she learned about shifting her focus and finding stability when she's feeling overwhelmed.

Discover how God uses small nudges, quiet whispers, and "God winks" to transform a life in recovery. Learn to find hope in the ordinary moments.

A powerful story of mustard-seed faith, answered prayer, and how God’s blessings often lead to opportunities to bless others.

Read Colossians 3:12-13 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Reflect Why do you think it is so difficult for us to forgive someone? Regardless, why does Paul say that we must forgive others? For most of us, forgiveness is not something that comes nat

Do you find it harder and harder to discern the truth in our noisy culture? Paula leads our prayer today with a prayer for God's wisdom and discernment.

PERSONALIZED WORKOUT OPTION: Exciting news — adapt today’s spiritual workout to what’s happening in your  life right now. Our new digital librarian will pull personalized content for your workout and guide you through four simple steps to help you apply Scripture to your life today. Try it out HERE>>> INTRO:  SPIRITUALLY FIT  | TODAY In this episode of Spiritually Fit Today, Colin Thieszen from Back to the Bible explains the Four R’s of spiritual growth: Receive, Reflect, Res

We all make mistakes, and what's more, none of us like being called out on our mistakes. So what's the right way to respond when we get corrected? Cameron is here today to share some wisdom from the Proverbs that he turns to in this situation.

Why should you fear God? And how does this idea fit with growing in the wisdom and knowledge of the Lord? Coach Faith Sherrer explains this powerful spiritual connection for you in today’s episode! To grow in the knowledge of the Lord, start reading through the Book of Proverbs. There are 31 chapters in it, so a chapter a day can be your goal for a month! Also, remember to ask God to give you wisdom. That’s a request He has promised to answer!

While most of Paul's letters were written to churches, some letters were written to specific people, like this, his first letter to a young preacher named Timothy. Through Paul's wise words of counsel, we'll learn how to set our priorities when preaching the Gospel, and learn about what pitfalls to avoid when talking about the faith with others.

Getting Started…    How do you turn a church around that’s heading in the wrong direction? After being established by the apostle Paul, the Corinthian church began to get a lot of things wrong. Sitting at a crossroads of culture in the ancient world the Corinthian church had a lot of challenges from the outset, so it’s not surprising that Paul had to write and set the record straight.    In this verse-by-verse study we’ll see the apostle Paul address the wayward church with a

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 1:1     1 This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes.     Paul would have some stern things to say in his letter. He wanted the recipients to know that he had been chosen by God, not by men, to be an apostle. It is not certain which Sosthenes it was to whom Paul referred. He may have been the one mentioned in Acts 18:17, or it may have been one by that name copying what Paul

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 1:11-12     11 For some members of Chloe’s household have told me about your quarrels, my dear brothers and sisters. 12 Some of you are saying, “I am a follower of Paul.” Others are saying, “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Peter,” or “I follow only Christ.”     Paul had appealed for the believers in Corinth to have harmony with no divisions. These verses tell what he had heard about their fellowship. They had become divided about which leader the

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 1:22-23     22 It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. 23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.     Paul revealed what the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ appeared like to various groups. The Jewish people who were always looking for a sign; Paul said the gospel to them was like something they stumbled ove

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 2:1-2     1 When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan. 2 For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.     Notice how Paul kept the main thing the main thing. He did not try to impress with his vocabulary and personality. His main message was about Jesus Christ who had been crucified not only

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 2:12     12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.     How can one know the things of God? Just as one human understands another human because they have the same spirit, people can know the things of God by receiving His Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. Then the individual has the same spirit so he or she “can know the wonderful things God has freely giv

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 3:5-6     5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. 6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.     The Corinthian believers had been arguing about the best speaker and teacher. Some thought Apollos; others thought Paul. Here Paul emphasizes both of them are only the messengers of God doin

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 3:16-17     16 Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.     Although each believer in Jesus is considered to be a temple of the Holy Spirit, Paul seems to be referring here to the collective group in the local church. This is because the “you” is plural in the Greek text. The loca

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 4:5     5 So don’t make judgments about anyone ahead of time—before the Lord returns. For he will bring our darkest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives. Then God will give to each one whatever praise is due.     Paul urged believers not to judge people ahead of time. They should leave the judging to God who knows about secret motives and can reward accordingly. This makes the point that although actions can be judged, motives cann

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 4:14-16     14 I am not writing these things to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children. 15 For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you. 16 So I urge you to imitate me.     Sometimes younger people in the faith need to be warned of certain things. Paul did this as he wrote to them. He let them know of

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 5:3-4     3 Even though I am not with you in person, I am with you in the Spirit. And as though I were there, I have already passed judgment on this man 4 in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must call a meeting of the church. I will be present with you in spirit, and so will the power of our Lord Jesus.     Even though he was not with the Corinthian believers, Paul said he was with them in the Spirit. The apostle had already passed judgment on thi

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 5:12-13     12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. 13 God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”     By “outsiders” Paul referred to those outside the local church assembly. On the other hand he emphasized it was their duty to judge (evaluate) those inside the church. He said n

Day 1  READ   1 Corinthians 6:12     12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything.     Paul writes about Christian liberty. Although a person who trusts in Jesus as Savior is saved by His grace apart from law; this does not mean the person can live like a lawless individual. Before salvation the person was a slave to sin. After salvation he or she should not