READ: ISAIAH 41:8-10; 43:1-4 What’s your biggest fear? Heights? Spiders? Snakes? Death? Those are the common ones, but there are other fears that are a little too close for comfort. For example, teens (and adults) tend to get bombarded with a lot of social fears. There is so much pressure to have the perfect body, [...]

READ: 1 KINGS 3:5-12; 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 God did an amazing job when He created humans. Our brains alone are made up of about 100 billion nerves that communicate in 100 trillion connections, controlling all of the systems in our bodies and allowing us to communicate, think, and reason. But, because our world is broken [...]

READ: GENESIS 2:2; 1 KINGS 19:1-8 "There will be a test over the material later this week,” Ashley heard the professor say as her class ended. Will I even have time to study for that test? she wondered. She was taking college classes while in high school and working part-time to pay for them. Just [...]

READ: EXODUS 26:31-33; MATTHEW 27:35-37, 50-52; 1 JOHN 4:10 We are all human and we all sin, so, until we see Jesus face-to-face, there will be times when we mess up (Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 3:18). When we stumble, slip, and fall, sometimes it seems impossible to find our way back. We let our failures [...]

READ: MATTHEW 6:25-34; MARK 4:35-41 "It’s scary.” “How can I feel safe when all of these things keep happening on the news?” “What if it happens here?” “It’s not safe out there. Maybe I should just stay home.” These are all things we begin to think when fear takes hold. And we’re not the only [...]