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Barry Stagner: Enduring Hatred For His Name’s Sake

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Jack Hibbs: In His Heavenly Presence

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Skip Heitzig: Does God ‘Help Those Who Help Themselves’?

My dad used to say, "You know, son, the Bible says, 'God helps those who help themselves.'" I grew up believing that—until I read the Bible and discovered it doesn't say that anywhere. Most Americans also believe that; 52 percent of practicing Christians, in fact. It sounds reasonable, even logical. But it's just not there.

Skip Heitzig - February 20, 2026

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Greg Laurie: Don’t Look Back

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Skip Heitzig: Why Religious People Are The Hardest To Reach

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Skip Heitzig: Does God ‘Help Those Who Help Themselves’?

Skip Heitzig - February 20, 2026

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Barry Stagner: Enduring Hatred For His Name’s Sake

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Jack Hibbs: In His Heavenly Presence

Greg Laurie: Don’t Look Back

Skip Heitzig: Why Religious People Are The Hardest To Reach

Will Graham: Why You Don’t Have to Be Afraid to Share Your Faith

Greg Laurie: The Powerful Testimony Of Christian Love

Jack Hibbs: God Is Calling You To Stand

Greg Laurie: Where the People Are

Will Graham: Five Characteristics Of A Mature And Growing Follower Of Jesus

Skip Heitzig: Testimony Or Religious Résumé?

Jack Hibbs: An Era Of Unprecedented Learning… Void Of Wisdom

Greg Laurie: Why Satan’s Lies About The Resurrection Will Never Hold Up

Mark Henry: What A Hero Looks Like In God’s Eyes

Skip Heitzig: God Who Works In You

Jack Hibbs: Where Next, Lord?

The Hinge-Point Of Human History: Bible Prophecy And The Birth Of The King of kings

Will Graham: The Shepherds Of Ancient Israel — Proclamation Of The Messiah’s Arrival

The Perfect Savior Sent to Save An Imperfect Humanity

Will Graham: Four Serious Consequences Of Turning Your Back On Christ

Skip Heitzig: Atheism Has Slain Its Thousands, But Procrastination, Its Tens Of Thousands

The Touch of the Master’s Hand

Skip Heitzig: Have You Left Your First Love?

Will Graham: Refusal to Grow — Being Perpetually Immature In Your Walk With Christ

Jack Hibbs: The Reality Of Jesus’s Soon Return Has A Purifying Power

Skip Heitzig: The Hope Of Christ’s Return Dominates The Bible

Greg Laurie: The Lord’s Coming Draws Closer Every Day — It’s Time For Us To Wake Up

Mark Henry: Even From The Midst Of The Fire, God Showcases His Power To Rescue Those Who Put Their Trust In Him

Skip Heitzig: God’s Judgment And The Handwriting On The Wall

Jack Hibbs: The Responsibility Of Being Made In HIS Image

Greg Laurie: The Well-Lived Life of Stephen

The Believer’s War: Satan And The Flesh

Jack Hibbs: In God We Trust

Greg Laurie: A Time to Run

Ray Comfort: The Consequences of Ignoring God’s Warnings

The Incredible Design of the Human Eye

The Seventy Sets of Seven Prophecy: Everything Happens According To God’s Timetable

Equity Demands Absolute Justice

God Looks At The Heart Of Worship, Not The Appearance Of It

How Mark Twain Fulfilled a Biblical Prophecy Concerning Israel

Believing That You’re A Christian Is Not The Same As Being A Christian

Whose Word Will You Believe?

Jack Hibbs: Discipline And Building Strong Foundations

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Skip Heitzig: Does God ‘Help Those Who Help Themselves’?

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Barry Stagner: Enduring Hatred For His Name’s Sake

We see in Psalm 22 that even as David describes his own suffering, the Holy Spirit inspires him to write things that would become true of Jesus, God in human flesh, in even harsher reality! Through David’s words, we look ahead to the suffering of the Messiah, becoming the beneficiaries of having all of this laid out in these verses.

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Jack Hibbs: In His Heavenly Presence

When death comes to the unbelieving man, it strips him of earthly comforts; his hopes vanish with his last breath. That thought is scary to some, but to those whose destination is heaven, it fills their minds and hearts with a “fullness of joy” foreign to this life.

Greg Laurie: Don’t Look Back

Skip Heitzig: Why Religious People Are The Hardest To Reach

Will Graham: Why You Don’t Have to Be Afraid to Share Your Faith

Greg Laurie: The Powerful Testimony Of Christian Love

Jack Hibbs: God Is Calling You To Stand

Greg Laurie: Where the People Are

Will Graham: Five Characteristics Of A Mature And Growing Follower Of Jesus

Skip Heitzig: Testimony Or Religious Résumé?

Jack Hibbs: An Era Of Unprecedented Learning… Void Of Wisdom

Greg Laurie: Why Satan’s Lies About The Resurrection Will Never Hold Up

Mark Henry: What A Hero Looks Like In God’s Eyes

Skip Heitzig: God Who Works In You

Jack Hibbs: Where Next, Lord?

The Hinge-Point Of Human History: Bible Prophecy And The Birth Of The King of kings

Will Graham: The Shepherds Of Ancient Israel — Proclamation Of The Messiah’s Arrival

The Perfect Savior Sent to Save An Imperfect Humanity

Will Graham: Four Serious Consequences Of Turning Your Back On Christ

Skip Heitzig: Atheism Has Slain Its Thousands, But Procrastination, Its Tens Of Thousands

The Touch of the Master’s Hand

Skip Heitzig: Have You Left Your First Love?

Will Graham: Refusal to Grow — Being Perpetually Immature In Your Walk With Christ

Jack Hibbs: The Reality Of Jesus’s Soon Return Has A Purifying Power

Skip Heitzig: The Hope Of Christ’s Return Dominates The Bible

Greg Laurie: The Lord’s Coming Draws Closer Every Day — It’s Time For Us To Wake Up

Mark Henry: Even From The Midst Of The Fire, God Showcases His Power To Rescue Those Who Put Their Trust In Him

Will Graham: Why You Don’t Have to Be Afraid to Share Your Faith

Greg Laurie: The Powerful Testimony Of Christian Love

Jack Hibbs: God Is Calling You To Stand

Greg Laurie: Where the People Are

Will Graham: Five Characteristics Of A Mature And Growing Follower Of Jesus

Skip Heitzig: Testimony Or Religious Résumé?

Jack Hibbs: An Era Of Unprecedented Learning… Void Of Wisdom

Greg Laurie: Why Satan’s Lies About The Resurrection Will Never Hold Up

Mark Henry: What A Hero Looks Like In God’s Eyes

Skip Heitzig: God Who Works In You

Jack Hibbs: Where Next, Lord?

The Hinge-Point Of Human History: Bible Prophecy And The Birth Of The King of kings

Will Graham: The Shepherds Of Ancient Israel — Proclamation Of The Messiah’s Arrival

The Perfect Savior Sent to Save An Imperfect Humanity

Will Graham: Four Serious Consequences Of Turning Your Back On Christ

Skip Heitzig: Atheism Has Slain Its Thousands, But Procrastination, Its Tens Of Thousands

The Touch of the Master’s Hand

Skip Heitzig: Have You Left Your First Love?

Will Graham: Refusal to Grow — Being Perpetually Immature In Your Walk With Christ

Jack Hibbs: The Reality Of Jesus’s Soon Return Has A Purifying Power

Skip Heitzig: The Hope Of Christ’s Return Dominates The Bible

Greg Laurie: The Lord’s Coming Draws Closer Every Day — It’s Time For Us To Wake Up

Mark Henry: Even From The Midst Of The Fire, God Showcases His Power To Rescue Those Who Put Their Trust In Him

Skip Heitzig: God’s Judgment And The Handwriting On The Wall

Jack Hibbs: The Responsibility Of Being Made In HIS Image

Greg Laurie: The Well-Lived Life of Stephen

The Believer’s War: Satan And The Flesh

Jack Hibbs: In God We Trust

Greg Laurie: A Time to Run

Ray Comfort: The Consequences of Ignoring God’s Warnings

The Incredible Design of the Human Eye

The Seventy Sets of Seven Prophecy: Everything Happens According To God’s Timetable

Equity Demands Absolute Justice

God Looks At The Heart Of Worship, Not The Appearance Of It

How Mark Twain Fulfilled a Biblical Prophecy Concerning Israel

Believing That You’re A Christian Is Not The Same As Being A Christian

Whose Word Will You Believe?

Jack Hibbs: Discipline And Building Strong Foundations

Skip Heitzig: Some Of Us Need To Toughen Up

Greg Laurie: Cornerstone Institution — We Must Never Lose Sight Of The Family’s Importance

Jack Hibbs: Under God’s Watchful Eye, Don’t Let Doubt Take Hold

Skip Heitzig: Be Strong — Establish Your Heart In These Last Days

Anne Graham Lotz: Bible Study — Until He Comes…

Greg Laurie: Paul — Beaten, Shipwrecked, Imprisoned, And Content?

Skip Heitzig: We have the living Word of God

Jack Hibbs: Heaven Awaits — Is The Bride Ready?

Why Would Jesus Submit To Being Beaten, Ridiculed, And Crucified On My Behalf?

Will Graham: Reaching The Lost Comes With A Cost

Jack Hibbs: ‘Come, Lord Jesus’ Is To Be Our Heart’s Desire

Skip Heitzig: Temptation — God Gives Us An Escape Route

Alex McFarland: Hypocritical Christians Do Not Negate the Gospel

Skip Heitzig: The Precision Of God’s Promises

Greg Laurie: The Truth About God’s Judgment

A King Changed by Grace And The Need For Daily Repentance

Greg Laurie: Don’t Look Back

Some Christians take a similar approach to life. They’re always looking back. They say, “Remember the good old days—you know, before I was a Christian? Man, we would party! We had so much fun!” Have they forgotten the havoc their actions brought on their family? They’ve conveniently forgotten about those things and remember only the few good times they had.

Skip Heitzig: Why Religious People Are The Hardest To Reach

Religious people are the hardest people to reach. They hold to some understanding and acknowledgment of God but nothing on a personal level, nothing too authentic. And sometimes that religion—that ritualistic shell—keeps the truth from penetrating.

Will Graham: Why You Don’t Have to Be Afraid to Share Your Faith

Many of us have had missed opportunities similar to this over the years. One of my greatest regrets is that I didn’t share the love of Christ with a couple in front of me, even though I clearly felt the Holy Spirit calling me to do so. I still feel the burden of that inaction today.

Greg Laurie: The Powerful Testimony Of Christian Love

Before I became a believer, one of the things that attracted me to the Christian faith was the way Christians loved each other. I was raised in the 1960s, when the hippie and drug culture was coming on strong. We wore peace symbols and used words like groovy. We talked incessantly about love and peace. But it was a sham. There was no love or peace—at least, not as we envisioned it. It didn’t take me long to recognize the hypocrisy at the heart of the counterculture.

Jack Hibbs: God Is Calling You To Stand

“Stand therefore” (Ephesians 6:14). What an incredible challenge! It takes courage to stand. Yet before courage comes determination. Human calculations will always find a thousand reasonable reasons to stand down or quit, which may sound good, but are usually wrong.

Greg Laurie: Where the People Are

In John 4, Jesus visits a Samaritan village, meets a woman at a well, and talks to her. A simple story, right? No miracles, no healings, no drama. Perhaps, but this seemingly simple story is loaded with profound significance.

Will Graham: Five Characteristics Of A Mature And Growing Follower Of Jesus

My friends, be on guard against false teaching, align yourself with Christ, seek the things of Heaven, praise Him and—in service to Him—serve others. If you are a mature and growing follower of Jesus, these five characteristics should automatically flow out of you.

Skip Heitzig: Testimony Or Religious Résumé?

For Paul, gain and loss were like the profit and loss columns in an accounting ledger. Paul admitted that he had counted wrong for years (see Philippians 3:7-8). He spent his whole life working on his religious résumé, and he had all these things in the profit column. But then he realized he was bankrupt before God.

Jack Hibbs: An Era Of Unprecedented Learning… Void Of Wisdom

We live in an unprecedented era in which learning, and the acquisition of information have exploded beyond our wildest imagination. The world is virtually at our fingertips or voice command. Yet, we are none the better for our technological advances when it comes to possessing wisdom. Tragically, technology often pulls us downward into a vortex of darkness, and evil.

Greg Laurie: Why Satan’s Lies About The Resurrection Will Never Hold Up

Satan could do nothing to stop Jesus’ resurrection two thousand years ago. So, part of his strategy now is to make people doubt that Jesus really rose from the grave. He promotes lies, often cloaked in pseudoscience, to plant seeds of skepticism regarding the resurrection.

Mark Henry: What A Hero Looks Like In God’s Eyes

None of these possessed any supernatural abilities or space age technology that made them heroic; rather, they used their God-given gifts coupled with dauntless determination to utilize the time God gave them to make a difference in the world in the service of and for the glory of Christ. They were no different than you or me. But as their lives show, God can do extraordinary things using ordinary people who make themselves available.

Skip Heitzig: God Who Works In You

Christianity is more than just a decision to make Jesus your Savior. It's also a determination to walk with Jesus as your Lord. If you don't do that, you're going to become what so many in the church have become: pew potatoes—the spiritual equivalent of couch potatoes. They watch things happen, but they aren't "doers of the word" (James 1:22).

Jack Hibbs: Where Next, Lord?

God has established our life’s course, and that leads us to naturally assume that He knows where we ought to plant our feet. Our responsibility is to ask, “Where next, Lord?” I am convinced that God desires to lead us more than we could possibly imagine and that His voice goes out more frequently than we might have considered.

The Hinge-Point Of Human History: Bible Prophecy And The Birth Of The King of kings

In the long centuries since Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, a great nostalgic myth has arisen around His birth. Artists and songwriters have softened the circumstances of His arrival. It is a scene befitting a baby’s birth, with solemnity suitable for a king’s nativity. But those are not the circumstances foretold in Bible prophecy.

Will Graham: The Shepherds Of Ancient Israel — Proclamation Of The Messiah’s Arrival

I wonder if the shepherds collapsed to the ground during this overwhelming experience. We know they felt fear, of course, but imagine the flood of emotions as they begin to realize that the angel of the Lord is proclaiming the news of the arrival of the Messiah!

The Perfect Savior Sent to Save An Imperfect Humanity

Jesus stepped down into our atmosphere from His throne and set aside His crown of gold to briefly wear a crown of thorns and offer his life as a ransom for many. He did this so that we might believe, be saved, and one day wear the crown of life.

Will Graham: Four Serious Consequences Of Turning Your Back On Christ

As an evangelist, I take sharing the Word of God and the hope of Jesus Christ very seriously. The way I look at it, eternity is at stake every time I stand up at the podium. When eternity is on the line—the difference between Heaven and hell—I don’t pull punches. People need to know that both are real, literal places, and surrendering one’s life to Jesus is the difference.

Skip Heitzig: Atheism Has Slain Its Thousands, But Procrastination, Its Tens Of Thousands

In Acts 16, the Philippian jailer asked Paul, "What must I do to be saved?" (v. 30). And he said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved" (v. 31). But there's another question. "What must I do to be lost?" Answer: absolutely nothing. Don't turn to Christ. Don't make a choice. Put it off. That's why I say atheism has slain its thousands, but procrastination, its tens of thousands.

The Touch of the Master’s Hand

Welch’s poem tells the story of a battered, old violin up for auction. The uninspired auctioneer begins the bidding at just $1 and only manages to up the bid to $3. Suddenly, an elderly man stands up, steps forward, picks up the violin, and begins to play beautiful music. The audience is stunned. Almost immediately, the auctioneer raises the bidding from $3 to $3,000. Many in the audience wondered what had changed. But others already knew: It was the touch of the master’s hand.

Skip Heitzig: Have You Left Your First Love?

Leaving your first love is seldom a blowout. It's usually a slow leak, like a car tire. You air it up, and a couple weeks later you've got to air it up again. So it is in our priorities with the Lord. We can get distracted gradually and leave slowly. We leave that first love.

Will Graham: Refusal to Grow — Being Perpetually Immature In Your Walk With Christ

A person’s faith is immature because they are lazy or “dull of hearing” (v. 11). There is no drive or initiative, and this prevents understanding. They sat and listened, but were not paying attention and applying what they had learned from God’s Word.

Jack Hibbs: The Reality Of Jesus’s Soon Return Has A Purifying Power

The reality of Jesus’s soon return is a purifying power in the Christian’s life. Practically speaking, that means living a transformed life that is passionate for Christ and militant toward defeating the temptations and sinful allurements that face every generation of believers. Our love for Christ’s return is the best accelerant for having a hot heart toward God.

Skip Heitzig: The Hope Of Christ’s Return Dominates The Bible

The second coming of Christ dominates the Bible; it's referenced 1,845 times. Next to faith, no subject is more discussed in Scripture. For every mention of the first coming, the second coming is mentioned eight times. For every time the atonement is mentioned, the second coming is mentioned twice. Jesus personally referred to His second coming twenty-one times, and we're urged to be ready for His coming no less than fifty times in Scripture.

Greg Laurie: The Lord’s Coming Draws Closer Every Day — It’s Time For Us To Wake Up

There are many people today that know that Bible prophecy is true. They know that God has foretold many of the events that are happening around us. But yet they continue to live as they please. The attitude is, "Hey, everything is the same." But you know what, the Lord’s coming draws closer every day.

Mark Henry: Even From The Midst Of The Fire, God Showcases His Power To Rescue Those Who Put Their Trust In Him

Like iron thrust into a refiner’s fire meant to reveal and eliminate impurities, reemerging anew lighter, stronger, and more durable, having been transformed into steel, God uses the troublesome circumstances in our lives to forge strength, purify our character, and increase our capacity to endure the onslaught of tribulations in a world that is hostile to Christ. And that’s the goal, right?

Skip Heitzig: God’s Judgment And The Handwriting On The Wall

Your life is being weighed in God's balances. What does He find there? Because one day you will stand, not in a royal hall with handwriting on a wall, but in a judgment hall with handwriting in books (see Revelation 20:12, 15). The good news is in Jesus Christ. "Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross" (Colossians 2:14). Each breath we take, every heartbeat, is one of God’s gifts. Daniel 5 was Belshazzar's time. Ours is coming.

Jack Hibbs: The Responsibility Of Being Made In HIS Image

The great preacher and author A. W. Tozer wrote, “When God made the human soul in His own image, He did so that we might act according to that Divine nature.” Only humans are created according to God’s own image. Neither angels nor animals can claim that distinction. Part of bearing God’s image means we have the sovereign ability to make choices.

Greg Laurie: The Well-Lived Life of Stephen

The Bible gives us several different examples of well-lived lives. One is found in Acts 6, in the story of Stephen, the first known Christian martyr. Though he did not live long, Stephen demonstrated several qualities that are necessary for a well-lived life—qualities that allowed him to be used powerfully by God.

The Believer’s War: Satan And The Flesh

Adam and Eve were the first to play the blame game. God confronted the couple after they ate from the forbidden tree (Genesis 3:9–13). Adam blamed his wife for giving him the fruit, and Eve blamed the serpent. Because of their actions, sin entered the world, traveling through every person except one: Jesus. Since that moment in the Garden of Eden, our enemy has tried to thwart God’s plan for redemption.

Jack Hibbs: In God We Trust

Previously, no nation had the desire, humility, or boldness to keep God ever before its citizens’ eyes. Yet, in our wealth and fatness, we have forgotten the Provider of our blessings. We have forgotten that He hears the perverseness of our judges and lawmakers. Forgotten that God sees the complacency of His church, her refusal to be salt and light in the world. America, America, why should God shed His grace on thee?

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