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“Honey, you don’t like to go anywhere but the day spa. The fact you want to go to east Africa is astonishing.”“God obviously wants to take a vacation with you.”With ...

Cruciform self-giving is the distinctive dimension of holiness. — Michael GormanI’d been dangerously anemic for weeks, feeling like I was a wet sheet of paper and the story was falling ...

Trying New Things Cancer can improve the quality of your life.It can give you the courage to break out of old patterns and try something new. Some of that courage ...

Let it be to me according to your word. – Luke 1:38What must it have been like for Mary to carry God in her womb?The virgin birth is much more ...

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. — Jesus, in Matthew 11:28The euphoria a person feels when they first take drugs ...

Sometimes the thing we’re dreaming of doesn’t work out. But Chip and I weren’t going to give up on the idea of opening my shop just because the building I ...

In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Zondervan Bibles has teamed up with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. to create a special NIV Pink Study Bible available to aid ...

When my oldest son was three years old, I got a major wake-up call as a Christian mama. He had been listening to a Scripture set to music for a ...

I am inspired by people doing what they do best…. God truly built gifts into our lives. Everyone is good at something. Some make a living with their gifts and ...

Moses always wanted more.I think we can safely say that few human beings have experienced God on this earth to the extent that Moses did. From meeting God in the ...

Peter writes,He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature. — 2 Peter 1:4God’s promises are precious, ...

At dawn one morning, Jesus went to the temple to teach. The people gathered round, ready to be taught — but the Pharisees rushed up, bringing a woman with them.Teacher, ...

The eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. — 2 Chronicles 16:9Missionary biography is my favorite genre of inspirational ...

The old saying that “communication is not what is said, but what is heard” is absolutely true.Even if a person is committed to making time for their key relationships and ...

My husband and I love to run together in the mornings.It started a few years back when my husband decided that he wanted to shed a few pounds and get ...

Ask the Right QuestionSeveral years ago I was thumbing through the introduction of a book when I ran across a sentence that changed my life. God is intimately personal with ...