Why is the Bible so strict about alcohol? That's a great question to ask, especially when you contrast the biblical view of alcohol with our cultural view of it. The answer to that question is not as simple as you might think, and the implications go well beyond the number of drinks you have.

Everybody has been affected by suicide in one way or another. This is a difficult topic to talk about, but it's even worse to not talk about. The good news is that with God there is always hope.

Jesus and his apostles occasionally referenced something that tends to bring up a lot of questions: Before the world was created, God predestined certain people to be saved through Christ. What does that mean? How did that work? And how do you know if God predestined you?

When bad things happen to good people it can lead you to the conclusion that God doesn't care or that God isn't there. But when people approached Jesus with some bad things that were happening, Jesus directed them to an entirely different conclusion.

We all would like to live lives of significance and impact. And yet, so many of us doubt that we are. What if we've been pursuing the wrong things? What if we've been stretching in the wrong ways? A life of significance and impact is closer than you may have thought.

A growing faith won't necessarily make your life better, but it will definitely make you better at life. The key to growing is to be cautiously aware of where you are planted.

Your relationship with God is a personal thing, but living in community with other Christians is when things get really personal. Creating the time to have a community like that might be difficult at first, but it's worth the stretch.

Certain times of year are notorious for leaving people feel stretched thin. Maybe it's that time of year for you right now. But God doesn't want "stretch" to be something that happens to you. He wants you to purposely stretch yourself in ways that bring you closer to him and closer to his purpose for you.

At the end of the Apostles' Creed there are two phrases that are the final product of everything that goes before them: "I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting."

Twelve men experienced the blessing of spending a lot of time with Jesus for three years. Yet as Jesus was nearing his death, he told them that it was good that he was going away. His absence would make room for the Holy Spirit to do his work.