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Share with Others and Lend Helping Hands

Share With OthersShare more than just your things, but also your heart, counsel, and time. When you do, you’ll enjoy everything more, and so will everyone else. The resources God ...

Imagine Having a Relationship with Your Enemy

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. – Colossians 3:13John Paul Lederach has spent ...

FREE Christmas Bible Verses Advent Calendar Printable

One of my favorite holiday traditions is counting down to Christmas with an Advent calendar. My family has tried a lot of different Advent calendars over the years – Lego ...

The Spiritual Benefits of Waiting

God often uses waiting as a crucible in which to refine our character. Perhaps the prophet Isaiah realized this when he wrote,They that wait upon the lord shall renew their ...

Thanking God: A Reflex Action

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is ...

Hope: God's Math Works Differently

Two years out of West Point, Lieutenant Sam Brown was on his first tour of duty in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device turned his Humvee into a Molotov cocktail. ...

#Struggles: Our Battle with Discontentment

Read:Philippians 4:11-13Colossians 3:15-171 Timothy 6:6-7Psalms 100:1-5Never before in history have so many people had so much, yet felt so dissatisfied. Some sociologists point to technology and social media as significant ...

#Struggles: Our Battle with Technology

Read: Luke 10:27 Matthew 6:19-21 Galatians 1:2 Most everyone seems to agree that life is getting busier, crazier, and more frantic with each passing day. We’re bombarded by more information ...

Live a Life Filled With Purpose

Who am I?Why am I here?What is my purpose in life?We begin asking ourselves these questions from the moment we learn to speak.As our children grow, they ask us these ...

Coming Clean: Battling Addiction

I read the words of Jesus.Whoever wants to be My disciple, He said (and still says), must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me. — Luke ...

Difficult Conversations: How to Create Clarity in Conflict

Be Clear about “You” and “I”Any good confrontation takes into account that two people are involved. This sounds obvious, but it really isn’t, and it is an essential part of ...

Teaching Our Children Through Parables

Parenting is hard.I think it’s safe to say that every parent can relate to that statement. So many times I find myself crawling into bed at the end of the ...

Turbulent Peace: I Am With You Always

Peter and the other disciples were huddled together behind a door bolted hard against their fear. He wondered whether the religious leaders who had crucified Jesus two days earlier might ...

God Wants Humble Kids, Not Ones with High Self-Esteem

If I were to ask a group of modern parents whether they want their children to have feelings of insignificance, I’m pretty sure that most of them would shake their ...

Adoption: We Are Chosen

For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was His plan from before the beginning ...

Toxic Shame vs the Holy Spirit

You know that mom at the grocery store? The one we all promise ourselves we’re never going to turn into? The lady yelling at her kids, causing a scene, and ...

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Face Uncertain Times with Unbreakable Courage

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