motivations

“Well-Beloved Child” – Letters from Mothers to their Children

Simonetta Carr
May 10, 2023
“Well-Beloved Child” – Letters from Mothers to their Children From the earliest times, mothers have felt the responsibility of training and instructing their children. We find plenty of examples both in the Bible and in church history. This desire has often been expressed in their letters. When...

Ellen Ranyard and Her Team of Bible Women

Simonetta Carr
Mar 21, 2023
Ellen Ranyard and Her Team of Bible Women In 1826, 16-year-old Ellen Henrietta White and her family attended a Bible meeting about 14 miles east of her London home. There, she met a girl her age, Elizabeth Saunders, who seemed disconsolate at the departure of her best friend. Deeply concerned,...

Guard Your Steps

Sarah Ivill
Jun 1, 2022
Have you ever considered that it is important to “guard your steps when you go the house of God” (Ecc. 5:1)? Perhaps we don’t often think of church as a dangerous place, and yet it is a very dangerous place for those who refuse to listen to the preaching of God’s word. The author of Hebrews warns...

Ministering to Felt Needs

Justin Poythress
May 6, 2019
There was this nice, new family who was visiting your church for the past month or so. But you haven't seen them now for a couple weeks, and so you ask someone who was more connected with them: "What happened to the Jones family?" "Oh," your friend responds, "they didn't feel our church was meeting...