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A New Way to Live

My oldest went to college this year and, like all slightly crazed mothers, I tried to cram every last lesson into his precious mind in the final weeks before he ...

God's Unexplainable Protection: The Red Sea

Protection in the Red Sea EXODUS 14 / MARK 4:35–41 And He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and ...

The Most Important Journey of Your Life

I knew God loved me. At least in my head I did. I mean, He has to, right? But I did not have an experiential knowing of the real, running-at-full-speed ...

Evidence of Things Not Seen

Yesterday, I found the first book I ever wrote. I made it out of thick construction paper, each page carefully illustrated with markers or crayons. On the cover, I glued ...

God, Guys, & Girls

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. — 1 John 4:7 Several years ago, a ...

The Original Family Blueprint

Why does sticky webbing come out of his wrists? Why is he a billionaire who uses all his money to fight crime? Why is he in an alternate 1985 with ...

Dreams That Don’t Die

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. — Philippians 1:6  On a trip to Rwanda for medical missions, ...

Arguments Are Not Rejection

Editor’s note: Yesterday, we shared a devotion written by Jinger Duggar Vuolo. You can read it here and then enjoy this excerpt of her new book People Pleaser.* I spent ...

The Potency of Prayer for People Pleasers

Throughout my journey of breaking free from the paralyzing snare of people pleasing — which, in a nutshell, occurs when someone else’s approval, happiness, preference, or opinion comes before anything ...

The Ambassador: Changing Babylon by Winning Hearts

The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can ...

Spiritual Wellness

Your Table Requires Spiritual Power Have you ever read a Bible verse that just knocked your socks off? It could be a Scripture passage you’ve heard a hundred times, but ...

Jesus Weeps Over Our Sorrows

Jesus wept. — John 11:35 We now come to the shortest verse in all the Bible. Without question, it is the easiest to memorize. It contains only two words, three ...

When Grief Goes Deep: Facing Your Emotions

Read: Genesis 37 When Jacob learned of his beloved son Joseph’s (supposed) death, he did five striking things in response to his grief: he tore his clothes; he put on ...

Habits of the Household: What Is Your Normal?

It’s a hard question to answer, because normal things are usually the invisible things. Your everyday habits are precisely the habits you don’t notice. That is, until a crisis reveals ...

Giving Our Feelings to God

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. — ...

Attentiveness

When you are yearning to have a relationship with God, your sacred work is to still long enough to pay attention and locate your soul — so you can know ...

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Free Online Bible Study with Lysa TerKeurst

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