Outside of spending time with her family, Mati is an editor for OGGM whose heart is to encourage others to love God, His Gospel, and His Word. She enjoys reading, doing her best Fantasia impressions during family karaoke, and watching films.
Recently during our Heas Up Bible study, we were taken through the naming of Israel and reminded of how that name came about. Before becoming Israel, Jacob was Jacob: a man whose very name carried connotations of striving, grasping, and deception. Yet despite all of that, he became the recipient of God's blessings, passed down from Abraham. When I read the story of Jacob...
Maybe you’re single, increasingly lonely, and nothing would make you happier than receiving that message from a special someone. Maybe you’re engaged and that...