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What's Necessary This Christmas

When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. —Psalm 94:19 ESVEvery December, I get a sudden urge to be festively busy.I suddenly feel like if ...

Time Alone with Jesus

Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. — Luke 5:16 Often when I am under stress and pressure, I feel one of my greatest needs is to get a ...

The Spirit Prays for Us

One lesson we learn from seasons of pain, darkness, and doubt is that when we’re hurting,a person’s presence with us is far more significant than any words he or she ...

I Wanted to Pray But Had No Idea What to Say

Darkness Closes InDie before you die. There is no chance after. — C. S. Lewis, Till We Have FacesSudden and tragic loss leads to terrible darkness. It is as inescapable ...

God’s Blessings Just For You: Praying Scripture

The Written Word of GodGod’s Word truly is life-giving, guiding us through the years on this earth and preparing us for eternity. Its divine message is timeless, relevant through the ...

When You Are Confused About God's Will

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to ...

Jesus on Earth

Jesus arrived on earth as a man to show us our true identity, created in His image, and to teach us who the Father is. Quiet Prayer helps bring us ...

Prayer in Our Story

Christ brought you over to God’s side and put your lives together, whole and holy in His presence. — Colossians 1:22, The MessageEveryone’s life is [filled with] conflict and failure ...

Fasting: Two Throne Rooms

Several films have been based on the story of Esther. In the ones I have seen, she is ravishingly gorgeous. Eyes shaped like crescents, unblemished olive skin. A Hollywood heartthrob, ...

Teach Us to Pray

Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray.” — ...

Fall Fellowship

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. — Acts 2:42 Sadly, summer often rushes by in a blur. Family vacations ...

Whose Agenda is Our Concern Anyway?

The first petition in the Lord’s Prayer is thatGod’s name be hallowed. The second petition,“Your Kingdom come,” builds on the first byshowing us how God’s name is hallowed in theworld. ...

Warrior Princesses

“Me, a princess?” “You are the legal heir.” “I never lead anyone.” “We will help you to be a princess, to rule. If you refuse to accept the throne then ...

Refined in the Fire

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. — Job 23:10The doctor was very matter-of-fact. When he told me ...

Contend for Me

Contend for me,my God and Lord.— Psalm 35:23God loves it when we fight for Him. But God loves it even more when we let Him fight for us! How do ...

The Purpose of Prayer

The function of prayer is… to change the nature of the one who prays. — Søren KierkegaardScripture shows us many types of interactions with God. We see Jacob wrestling with ...

Free Resources

Free Online Bible Study by Max Lucado

Free Online Bible Study by Max Lucado

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