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Beginning to Heal after Spiritual Trauma Ella quit praying and reading her Bible. She’d lost her sense of having a deep and personal relationship with God, and terms such as submission, godly wife, and duties left her feeling bitter toward the church. For years, her...
Biblical View of Work and Our Identity as Royalty
Kings and Queens From the beginning of the story, God has been looking for partners. The imagery of humanity’s relationship to God is not of puppets on a string, with God up in heaven playing around. Rather, it’s of partners, God’s representatives on earth, kings and...
Easy Bible Study Method for Overwhelmed Believers
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed and exhausted that you couldn’t catch your breath? That was me in college. I was knee-deep academically, working toward my undergrad degree in biblical studies at the Moody Bible Institute in downtown Chicago. I was also on a “hamster...
Biblical Knowledge Attention Spans
Biblical Knowledge Attention Spans in a Distracted Age I was a pastor for a long time. Every week I went through the same cycle: Prep eagerly and earnestly, do my best in the pulpit, greet everyone after church, nap, and then immediately start thinking about next...
Living Lasts a Lifetime
I sat across from a young mom in a hipster coffee shop, the kind that serves deconstructed breakfast sandwiches in a bowl for around the price of the down payment of a tiny house. We went to the same church, and although we had known of each other for quite some time,...
Words Create Worlds
How Words Create Worlds Through God’s Design Words Create Worlds God spoke this world into existence. That’s how the Bible begins. God said, “Let there be light,” and BOOM! There was light, then water, land, animals, plants, and solar systems. From the sub-atomic to...
Your Life Is a Good News Story
Living as a Good News Story in God’s Narrative If we want to become more of who God made us to be—both individually and collectively—we don’t need...
Radical Transformation in Jesus
Throughout the Bible, we see radical transformation stories of ordinary individuals who played pivotal roles in God’s plan for humanity. These...
Practice Hospitality: Becoming a Person of Welcome
Why We Must Practice Hospitality in a Broken World Family and friends welcomed them to a foreign land. My parents were the first of their families...
Ask Better Questions to Expand Your World
Why You Must Ask Better Questions in Life EXPANDING—OR SHRINKING—YOUR WORLD The dimensions of your life expand or shrink in proportion to the...
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About the President
Dave Wike is a family man. Serving pastors, and those who desire to do the same, became his calling over the last 20+ years. He and his wife Margie live in North Carolina. They have a son living overseas, and three daughters still at home. Dave enjoys writing instrumental guitar music, and plans to complete his Masters in Biblical Counseling. He’s also well aware he can do nothing good apart from the Holy Spirit.
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