
A number of years ago, I took some college students over to Ukraine to teach vacation Bible school in the summer.

Here's another quick lesson illustration about how we think about faith.

Some people have gone to tremendous lengths to build impressive mausoleums or tombs. What makes a tomb great and impressive?

Here we are in Holy Week and we are considering especially the passion, the suffering, the death of our Savior Jesus.

Have you ever noticed that during Jesus ministry there were times that he had extreme statements?

I want to take a look at God's Word from Matthew chapter 14 and just talk a little bit more about faith and trust and doubt.

Is it really that important to believe that the Bible is 100% true, inspired and inerrant?

Rest is something that I think that we have an uncomfortable relationship with. Rest should be easy, but so often it isn't.

What should you do when you have questions or doubts about your faith?

What's the earliest that you can remember doing something bad, something that was sinful and wrong?

And at the beginning of every semester the Beacon does a special devotional painting night. They pick one section of scripture and then students reflect on that while they paint.

When I was in high school, a friend of mine went to a carnival and he brought quite a bit of money with him...