Paul went through a storm that left him shipwrecked on an island. If that's not enough, he was then bitten by a deadly poisonous snake. However, Paul simply shook the snake off into the fire and went about his business. Paul's ordeal teaches us some important lessons for when we're going through storms in life.

Every time a new year rolls around, people begin thinking about how they would like to be different in the future. We make all kinds of resolutions, only to abandon most of them by mid-March. In Philippians 3, Paul tells us how to strain toward a future filled with hope and how to pursue God's eternal plans rather than our earthly, temporary plans.

Moses' life led up to the fulfillment of God's call on his life. God also has big plans for your life and He's working now to prepare you for the fulfillment of that plan.

The small, obscure village of Bethlehem teaches us that God uses things that the world sees as unimportant and insignificant.