What does it mean to be a part of God's Kingdom? While we talk about the benefits, celebrate the honor we have to be among the redeemed, what about the responsibilities? While we are quick to throw around the term "remnant" today, we do not hear nearly enough about the responsibilities we, as God's remnant, have in the participation and expansion of His Kingdom. Just as in the days of the Prophet Haggai, God is calling out to His Kingdom people, calling them to be accountable for the work they are not doing because they are busy building houses and kingdoms unto themselves. Kingdom citizens...

CHURCH doors closing. Ministries in financial ruin. Disgraced ministers, with a trail of actions falling behind them. Denominations falling apart at the foundation. Are these isolated incidents? Are they Satanic attacks, the work of the devil, who wants to destroy the church? Or is God doing something to unveil the realities of modern Christian leaders, in the hope that the church of today will turn back to Him? In Turning The Hearts Of The Leaders Toward The Father: A Journey Through The Book Of Malachi, Dr. Lee Ann B. Marino, Ph.D., D.D. looks at the way God handles the sins of the leaders...

THE book of Revelation is one of the most talked about books in history, and also one of the most misunderstood. There are a variety of ways Revelation is understood: some believe it is historical, with the whole of its contents fulfilled; some believe it is all about futuristic events that have not yet happened, but are soon coming; some believe it has happened in part, and the rest is yet to come; and the rest of people fully well acknowledge that they have no idea what the book of Revelation is about. Many avoid it in teaching, and feel that if it is not a long dramatic recitation of...

WHERE IS GOD? This question hallows the hearts and minds of people when disasters of any sort invade our lives, just as when the locusts invaded the lives of the Israelites in the book of Joel. Whenever bad things happen, our first course of thought is to look around and ask for deeper answers as to why it happened. While some look at natural disasters as a form of divine wrath and others try to find other explanations, has it occurred to any of us that God might be speaking to us through the different things we experience? In this unique book that transforms the experience of Joel's prophecy...