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Jesus Calling Family Devotions

For Adults: The Power of WordsWatch your words diligently. Words have such great power to bless or to wound. When you speak carelessly or negatively, you damage others as well ...

I Am Blessed

How much more will your Father in Heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him! — Matthew 7:11No one wants to spend Thanksgiving Day in the ICU. Especially not ...

Be the Gift: Jesus Believes in You

Editor’s Note: Ann Voskamp, in One Thousand Gifts encouraged readers to live a life of thanksgiving and to chronicle the gifts from God in their everyday lives. In The Broken ...

Communing with the Living God

Reflections on the Value of Abstinence in the Christian LifeFor four consecutive years (2015–18), the Cleveland Cavaliers played the Golden State Warriors in the NBA finals. LeBron James versus Stephen ...

When We Love People We Disagree With, It Turns Our Faith Into a Living Biography

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. — Matthew 7:24In one of Jesus’ ...

Humility Shines

Most of the players in the Christmas drama inspire us with their faith. Mary, who had great courage.Joseph, who was obedient.The shepherds, who came quickly and worshipped willingly.The wise men, ...

The Reach of the Revival

I believe the world is upon the threshold of a great religious revival, and I pray that I may be allowed to help bring this about. I beseech all those ...

Jesus, Respecter of Women

“Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.” – Florence NightingaleWe ...

Loud and Passionate

When we view the invitation to come to Jesus through the lens of the Greek text, it is passionately expressive:If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. — ...

The Choice to Rejoice

But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; let those also who love Your name be joyful ...

Does Suffering Disprove the Existence of a Good God?

The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it? — Jeremiah 17:9 NASBAs I tried to imagine the depth of pain, the horror ...

Run with a Positive Focus

My getting into running in the late nineties happened to coincide with the genesis of the internet and online chatrooms. One day at a friend’s house, I entered an online ...

Fixing My Eyes on Jesus: Faith

The Risk of Faith “Come,” [Jesus] said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. — Matthew 14:29The older I get, the ...

Where Is God in the Darkness?

That Safe Darkness You have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. — Lamentations 3:44 “I call, I cling, I want — and there is ...

Find the Light

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. ~ C. S. LEWISLeanne:The word inspired comes from the phrase “in spirit.” Ask any true creative and they will tell ...

Love Heals in the Valley of Death

Embracing the Grief that Connects UsIn the Valley of DeathWith arms outstretched on the hillAn American chestnut tree stands resurrected.Silently she draws new life from an old, dead stumpWhere her ...

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