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This is the one-hundred-seventy-fourth lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, […]

Yom Kippur, the most significant holy day in Judaism, begins tonight and runs through sundown tomorrow. Jews observe this event with prayer and repentance, much as the Old Testament Israelites did. It was established during […]

Looking for the perfect way to teach your 6-10-year-old kids about the Bible that’s fun, engaging, AND educational? Sign-up to receive, once a month, the free NIrV Parent Packet, based on the popular easy-to-read New […]

Many people today are burdened with unprecedented levels of anxiety, hurt, doubt, guilt, and shame. Medical and mental health professionals confirm that much of the dysfunction and disconnectedness we experience in life comes from unresolved […]

By Dr. Dan B. Allender Joan, a Bainbridge Island firefighter, was in my house with a group of our neighbors, telling us how to prepare for the earthquake that will inevitably hit our island. Apparently […]

On the Sunday following 9/11 Pastor Mel Lawrenz taught from passages in the Psalms which both give comfort and describe the righteous judgment of God against tyranny. [Read weekly Bible lessons by Mel Lawrenz on […]

This is the one-hundred-seventy-third lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, […]

By Lee Strobel If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY My […]

While the Bible has for centuries been called “The Good Book”—a moral and religious text that guides us into a relationship with God and shows us the right way to live—it nonetheless contains elements that […]

The school year is underway, and students from first-grade to post-graduate are settled into the educational routine—and are no doubt thinking of ways to procrastinate doing their homework. They’re embracing what Winston Churchill once said: […]