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Man’s Windfall

As youngsters, we neighborhood kids would play street football. The minute we got home from school, we’d drop the books and hit the pavement. The kid across the street had ...

Grace in Grief

I landed in Denver with a heart full of anticipation. After two years of waiting and raising money, Blake and I were ready for the next step in our journey ...

Viruses: The Problem of God

By Him all things were created, in Heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. — Colossians 1:16I don’t tend to see things from the virus’s point of view.With virtually every ...

Hope Heals: God Will Never Leave Us Alone

When I first woke from a sudden, near-fatal brain-stem stroke, I could hardly move, nor could I speak. I was 26 years old and instinctively wanted to nurse my six-month-old ...

A Way to Live

Some may come to faith in God and to love, without a conscious attachment to Jesus. Both Nature and good men besides Jesus may lead us to God. They who ...

Giving Thanks in the Small Things

Some days I pick up a camera and it’s a hammer.The lens is my ink, for cameras have sensor eyes, and pixels record. I slide it into a pocket, a ...

How to Lose Control and Keep the Faith

Cue the Queen Esther is the scriptural role model for how to control what you should and trust God with what you can’t. And, more importantly, how to decide which ...

It's Never Too Late for God to Redeem

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us. — Ephesians 1:7-8 NIV I ...

Paradise in a Garbage Dump

Jesus wasn’t drawn to the people whose lives were perfectly put together. (Actually, those people never existed.) Jesus was drawn to people whose lives weren’t all together. People just like ...

A Dad Who Really Makes a Difference

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child. — Proverbs 22:15“Yes, I love you, and no, you can’t have your own way.” When my dad was two years ...

When Judgment Gets in the Way

Caught in the Act Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn He appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around Him, and He sat ...

You Don’t Have to Suffer Alone

I broaden the path beneath you so that your ankles do not turn. This shows how intricately I am involved in your life-journey. I know exactly what is before you, ...

Spiritual Gifts: Unwrapping Your God-Given Treasures

Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. — 1 Corinthians 12:1 NIVYour spiritual gifts were not given for your ...

One Choice Every Couple Should Make in Their Suffering

What is one choice every couple should make in the midst of their storm?It might sound like a simple question, but it is incredibly important. One of the most important ...

Your Whispering Thoughts

FOR ADULTSImagine considering every moment as a potential time of communion with God. By the time your life is over, you will have spent six months at stoplights, eight months ...

The Hope of Easter: Shame Off You!

John 4:1-26, John 4:28-30, John 4:39-42Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John — although in fact it was not ...

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