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What If Your Child Received a Letter from God?

Easter Love LettersSocial media and texting are great ways to communicate with one another. iMessage makes it easy to stay in touch with friends while Instagram connects us with people ...

Gold Medal Perseverance

Editor’s note: Did you hear that Courage to Soar, the Simone Biles Story just received two nominations for the NAACP Image Awards? We’re so excited!Have you ever felt like you ...

On-the-Go Family? You Can Still Develop Meaningful Devotion Time

I didn’t realize life would get this busy so quickly. The move up to seventh grade for our oldest son filled our calendar full of new activities and opportunities, from ...

The Truth About Fear

Picture this: you are in your house alone watching television and you hear the front door open and bang against the wall. You jump off the couch. Your heart is ...

How to Silence the Negative Voices In Our Daughters’ Heads

Last year, during one of those miraculously divine appointments that only our great God can arrange, a beautiful, bright-eyed college student walked into my life. As I’ve gotten to know ...

How to Help Your Child Engage with the Bible

My kids had Bibles — real, unillustrated ones with lots of small words on lots of thin pages — long before they learned to read. They were always the ICB ...

Making a Place for God

Several years ago I was roped into trying to read the Bible in ninety days. I say “roped” not because I didn’t want to do it or because I thought ...

How to Help Your Kids Crush Comparison

How to Help Your Kids Crush ComparisonMy daughter was in second grade when she decided that she hated her hair.Anyone can see that her hair is beautiful; in fact, strangers ...

What Should We Teach Our Kids About Friendship?

People who know me say that I’m friendly and hospitable. Often, I’m asked to reach out to others because I have a knack for making people feel safe, cared about ...

The Bedtime Battle

If you’re raising small children or have raised small children, then you know the bedtime battle is real. I have the opposite problem now with teenagers in my house who ...

Do You Need a Hug Today? Why We Should Share Hugs Year Round

December is one of my favorite months of the year. That’s because I see my friends and family in December more than any other time of year. In addition to ...

Helping Our Teens Awaken Their Dreams and Live in Hope

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us… — Ephesians 3:20Everywhere we ...

Is Better Better?

In God’s worldview, some values rise higher than comfort and happiness. Consider the most concise verses in the Bible on spiritual formation:We also glory in our sufferings, because we know ...

Motivating Teenagers to Read Devotions

As the mother of two teenagers, I’m always looking for good influences, whether it be people, videos, or books, that will reinforce the lessons we have spent over a decade ...

Goal-Setting for Kids in 4 Easy Steps

It’s the New Year! And you know what that means for many of us. New ideas, new goals, and new dreams.Each year, during the week between Christmas and January 1st, ...

Church of the Small Things: Things I Wish I’d Known When I Became a Mom

The Bible says, “Point your kids in the right direction — when they’re old they won’t be lost” (Proverbs 22:6 MSG), which means it’s our job to give them what ...

Free Resources

Free Online Bible Study by Margaret Feinberg

Free Online Bible Study by Margaret Feinberg

Let's study James with Margaret Feinberg for 5 weeks! You'll read the entire book of James from start to finish, memorize a verse each week with companion FREE coloring pages for each Scripture, and receive FREE access to 5 study videos by Margaret. Study starts 4/22!