The greatest athletes, philosophers, artists, and business owners of the world all of one major thing in common: they learned the rules of excellence, they obeyed them, and they became masters. If you want to become successful in your life, if you want your relationships to flourish, all we have to do is learn the rules of excellent living and follow them! Fortunately for us, God spells it all out for us in the book of Deuteronomy.

The beginning of January is the perfect time to get rid of old habits and replace them with new ones. The new year is a clean slate. A fresh start. But what do you do when you remember all the times you've tried before and failed? What do you do when your new goal starts to feel a little too ambitious to achieve? You start thinking you can't do it. Better to give up now rather than face the crushing shame of defeat. But with God, there is always a way! Listen to David's message on the 8 Steps of Confidence and Persistence that will help you succeed.

Do you find it hard to see God at work in your life when times are hard? Do you get discouraged or angry when you feel your control slipping? Do you pray but doubt that God will answer you – or that He won’t answer you the way that you want Him to? Are you unsure if God is even trustworthy to handle the hopes and dreams you hold so close to your heart?

You aren’t alone. Literally billions of people have asked the same questions you’re asking, especially one group in particular: The Israelites, God’s chosen people. Unfortunately, their lack of trust in God’s capabilities and intentions lead them down a very dark and painful path. The good news is that it doesn’t have to end that way for you! Listen to David’s message on how you can choose to trust God and experience the blessings of life that He has planned for you.

When God presents you with a task or a dream that seems impossibly out of reach, what do you do? How do you cross that great divide between where you are and where you're called to be? And what do you do when going to church and following God seems boring (especially to your kids)? David Hunzicker digs into the book of Deuteronomy to uncover the answers.

Although it looks very different than in the Bronze Age, idolatry is still very present in the world today. We might not bow down to statues made of wood or stone, but we do yield to the same values that those statues represented: power, money, sex, food, resources… These things are not inherently evil, but when we build our lives around the pursuit of these things instead of pursuing the One who made them in the first place, THAT is idol worship.

There are a lot of strange laws in the world that leave us scratching our heads, and that is true of many of the laws recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible – laws about shaving your head, not eating certain foods, and selling your daughter into slavery. If you find these laws questionable and confusing, you’re not alone!

As Christians, which laws do we need to follow and which ones were “just for them”? To understand this, we must understand the historical context of the culture that the laws were given. Listen as David Young describes how we can find the answers we are looking for directly from the Word of God.

Oh, that our children might learn from us how to love God with all their heart, soul, and might! To ignore this responsibility is to fail our children and to set them up to forfeit God's blessings.To ignore this responsibility is to create spiritually malnourished children who will not be able to withstand the pressures still to come. And you can be sure the pressure will certainly come.

In his book The Great Evangelical Recession, John Dickerson makes a clear case that future generations will face more, not less, external pressure to walk away from the faith. Times are hard for believers now, but we have not yet seen how difficult it will be here in the west.

Are you doing all you can do to prepare your children for the days to come? Are you training your children to love their God? And if you are not a parent or your children are grown, what are you doing to help invest in the next generation as a member of their community?

Am I good enough? Am I worthy of being loved? What do I need to do in order to earn the love I so desire? The bad news is that you are an imperfect person – just like everyone else – and none of us can ever be “good enough.” The Good News is that you can’t do anything to be more loved than you are right now because you are loved without condition by the one who made you. You don’t have to earn love. You only have to accept it.

We live in amazing abundance in the United States, and in such abundance, it can be easy to forget the God who gave us all that we have. Romans Chapter 1 reminds us that ingratitude is the beginning – the “gateway drug” – to all other sins. The solution to this ungratefulness is to proclaim God’s exponential value and worth to ourselves, to our brothers and sisters, and to the world. He is worthy of our worship.

Few things have more power over us than does our memory. But it’s a double-edged sword. Memory can motivate us to achieve great things. Or it can bring about our ruin. Here’s how to use your memory for the glory of God.

Whether we know it or not, we are in the battle of our lives; and, ultimately, it is a bat-tle for our minds. On the one side stands the Lord God, who provides us with the truth we need. On the other side stand the powers of darkness, who endlessly lie to us. The path to victory goes through the Word of God. Victory belongs to the one who learns this.

In Deuteronomy 12, God promises to designate a place of worship (only one) for Israel to come and meet with Him. The appointed place (Shiloh, and then Jerusalem) ultimately served as a signpost to an anointed person (King Jesus). Today, the Holy God meets with sinful man only through the person of Jesus Christ.