Garriott wants to help Christians move past general prayers for state and national leaders and pray for them as real people whose lives are in God’s hands. Nothing about a leader’s beliefs or actions negates the Christian’s responsibility to pray for him.

Your deepest distress is deeply distressing. But the God who loves you is Master of your significant sorrow. He calls you to go through even this hard thing.

The BTS Prison Initiative is the first free seminary program of its kind in Alabama, and is based on other successful programs in South Carolina and Louisiana. Its long-term goal is to train men who will minister to their fellow inmates and be a positive influence in prison.

Christians struggle with prayer. So much so, says Paul Miller, author of A Praying Life, that only about 10 percent of believers claim to have an effective or meaningful prayer life.

With disability, the needs of every family are different, and those needs change day by day.

For the church to welcome sexual sinners, it must be a community of grace where sinful people hear truth in the context of caring relationships, and where they learn that sexual sin isn’t unforgivable.

Since the Bible is one big story of God’s redemptive work – and believers are part of that story – then through our waiting we join with other biblical characters who waited.

Many believers revel in their Christian liberty, while others shy away, worried that liberty too easily turns to license.

By abandoning traditional rituals in favor of personalized memorial services, we may have lost an opportunity to fully see and share the Gospel.

The icy cold hands of death reach out to all humanity, and humanity is enslaved to it. But the enslavement is not to death itself, but to the fear.