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Editor’s Note: For years, Barry Zito lived as a walking personification of the American Dream. Professionally, he was at the top of his game as a Cy Young Award winner ...

Life with Christ will not be pain-free. This is a prominent theme throughout Scripture. First, let’s just acknowledge how abnormal it is to embrace such a life. When traveling from ...

Editor’s note: In a new book, 1% Better: Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can, Too, Nik Nikic shares the incredible story of his son Chris’s journey to become ...

My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will. — Matthew 26:39“Stop trying to figure God out.”That’s ...

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. – 1 John ...

We Christians know Genesis 1:1, that famous poetic flourish that informs us of God’s inexhaustible creativity:In the beginning God.Yes, out of the long primordial silence and the deep void came ...

Editor’s note: Legendary songwriter Johnny Cash, known to many as “The Man in Black,” was highly regarded for the raw honesty and storytelling ability within his songs. But later in ...

Matthew–JohnWelcomeNone of us likes to wait. We get impatient at traffic lights. We get edgy when the line at the grocery store doesn’t seem to move. We get irritated when ...

A long red envelope — subtle enough for a hundred-dollar bill to feel extravagant, but extravagant enough for even a single dollar bill to feel elevated. If you’ve ever received ...

Immanuel,Stillness is increasingly hard to come by in this restless, agitated world. I really have to fight to carve out time for You. Distractions come at me from all sides ...

Dad was in his late sixties when I joined the family, so he was fairly old to be fathering another little boy. Sadly, his own parents never got a chance ...

Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. And He said, “Where have you laid him?” ...

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

While many men who suffer from depression feel that somehow, and in some way, they are weak or deficient, I have found it most encouraging to reflect on great men ...

You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You! Trust in the LORD always, for the LORD GOD is the eternal ...

This year, Olympian Steele Johnson took a deep dive into God’s faithfulness. Long ago, Johnson was nearly killed when practicing a difficult dive. His head hit the platform. He cracked ...