Originally published on cru.org By Bill Bright I believe the power of fasting as it relates to prayer is the spiritual atomic bomb that our Lord has given us to destroy the strongholds of evil...
The New Normal Amidst the rising number of positive cases of COVID 19, it is easy to succumb to fear. Fear of going out in public places. If you’re not careful, you begin to look at each...
As we celebrate Christmas this year, let’s not forget about the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. Each year these two celebrations fall very close to one another. Hanukkah 2019 will begin on the...
By Rosemary Watson Ask the Lord to show you the part you can have in missions. It will make your life exciting to know you are sharing in the great work He has asked us to do – to spread His...
Women’s Discipleship Study Through the Beatitudes – Learning how to allow God to heal our hearts. Wednesdays beginning May 29th from 6:15 – 7:30pm in Room 135. Childcare is provided. For...
Did you know the word Easter isn't even in the Bible. No one knows for certain when people began observing the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a holiday, although some evidence points to the...
God is always working around you and in your life. Sometimes we don’t even know it. He is still at work. He is still orchestrating “all things for our good” (Romans 8:28). That is His mind for...
I recently did a series on Scripture Memory and Meditation in my Sunday morning Pastor’s class. We had a great time digging into the Scripture together. I was impressed of the Lord that I needed...
The New Year often brings resolutions to lose weight, exercise, eat healthier, save more money, spend more time with family and friends and for devoted Christians, draw closer to God through...
Let me encourage you to join Eastwood Tulsa in the Daniel Fast as we come into the New Year. Seek the Lord with your whole heart. The Psalmist prayed, “With my whole heart I have sought You…”...
By Betty K. Fisher Defending Genesis Several years ago, God impressed I Peter 3:15 on me. “Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you for a...
Average is No Longer My Name The word average is thrown around our in our culture to mean many things. Average simply is the common shared point or percentage of a whole. When you add everything...
Faithful Followers Have you ever wondered what it was like to be one of Jesus’ disciples and followers? Simple people leading ordinary lives suddenly thrown into a miraculous supernatural world!...
A Great Story Darkness blankets the sky at midday. The fight has been long and hard. Sweat and blood now soak the ground of the parched earth of the battlefield. The stench of impending death now...
With the nation's attention fixated on the security of our schools, the looming threats from militant dictators, and political and social distress, Easter cannot come fast enough.
If you could script your last words, what would you say? What would you want to be remembered for? What would your final words be?
By Heidi Bauer My husband, Cory, and I had been married for 14 years and lived in Bismarck, ND when he was offered a job in Tulsa. After much prayer we really felt God leading us down a...
We are here again, the Christmas season. Decorations, lights, shopping, traffic, running from one event to another – the hustle and bustle of the season can be exhaust. Many times I personally...
Have you ever felt God correcting you about something? Not long ago that happened to me.He showed me I had let my role as Children’s Director become a job and duty to perform. As a result,...
Secret Church began in 2006 based on time David Platt (IMB President) spent with brothers and sisters in underground Asian house churches. Believers all over the world risk their lives every day...
Easter is the most important day on the Christian calendar. Without a resurrection, there is no hope of eternal life and death was not conquered. To Jesus’ disciples and followers, all was...
The Holy Spirit led Paul to write to the believers in Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 5:17), saying after “Rejoice always,” “Pray without ceasing.” I’m not any kind of Bible scholar, but I don’t...
My life verse is Psalm 73:25 “Whom do I have in heaven but you and I desire no one on earth as much as you.” Although I knew it was a word from God for me, I struggled against it. If...
I hope you had a Merry Christmas! By the time you read this we will be looking toward the New Year. I want to be ready for what God has planned for us this coming year! This Sunday I will be...
In all the Christmas hubbub, don’t forget about Advent. That’s the four Sundays before Christmas when we focus on events of Jesus’ birth. We’ve already looked at Prophecy and how Mary and...
Merry Christmas! It’s hard to believe it’s already the Christmas season, but it is! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I did. It was nice to spend some extra time...
This past month the whole meaning of Thanksgiving has been impressed on us through many things. And it is so good for us to be reminded of all the blessings God has placed in our lives. Could you...
by Charles Stanley The word “meditation” tends to evoke images foreign to the Western mind. Perhaps that’s why so many contemporary believers have removed the word from their vocabulary. But we...
