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We Can Do All Things Through Christ

Christians are like a great work of art that was lost in a garage for decades. But it’s been found – a beautiful masterpiece discovered beneath a cheap, contemporary portrait.The ...

Through Trouble to Laughter

The people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations.” ...

God Often Leads Us Through Trouble, Not Around

A choice faces us every time we are in a mess, entrapped in sin, or confronting our enemy in the world: Will I believe that God can find me here ...

God Is With You!

I AM WITH YOU. I am with you. I am with you.Heaven’s bells continually peal with that promise of My Presence. Some people never hear those bells because their minds ...

Forgiveness His Way

Think for a moment of the worst sin you’ve committed… Yeah, that one.If you’re like most people, your mind raced with lightning speed to that moment you wish you could ...

Hold On to HOPE!

I’m a quitter. It comes way too easy for me to walk away from something that feels hard, whether it’s a gymnastics class, a friendship, or a diet. But as ...

It's All About Jesus

Several years ago, I spent quite a lot of time going in and out of South Sudan during the decades-long civil war that ravaged the nation and its people. I ...

Shalom

There is a way of living, a way of harmonizing and hitting a balance point, a converging of a thousand balance points and voices, layering together, twisting together, and there ...

Praying Your Will Be Done

May Your Kingdom come and what You want be done, here on earth as it is in Heaven. – Matthew 6:10To pray, “Thy will be done” is to seek the ...

So, How've You Been? Killing Self-Pity

We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. – Romans 8:37I heard about a man who had just come through major surgery. When he slowly opened his eyes, ...

The Grace Adventure: What Is Grace About?

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. – Ezekiel 36:26Do we get grace?We talk as if we understand the term. The library gives ...

Rules of Engagement: What does God Mean By Submission?

Read Ephesians 5:21-33It doesn’t get more controversial than this.In conversations about Christian marriage, Ephesians 5:21-33 gets hauled out and used to defend all kinds of ideas about who gets to ...

Are You an Outsider?

Located on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, Tabgha is the supposed location where Jesus, after His resurrection, appeared a third time to the disciples as a stranger ...

Don't Retire From Life

Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. – Mark 6:31Don’t resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. – UnknownI recall the story about ...

How Could Jesus Be a Friend of Sinners?

I wrote a song called “Jesus, Friend of Sinners” for Casting Crowns’ album The Well. It showed my frustration with the wrong picture of Jesus we believers have given the ...

Cold Showers of Unmet Expectations

The hotel bed sagged like a hammock under my jet-lagged body. My Timex beeped out the mantra, “Get up! The only time zone that matters is mine.” I rolled off ...

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