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The Brave Woman Who Wrote the Book That Started a Great War

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did His dictation. ~ Harriet Beecher StoweOne of my heroes is a saint named Hattie. A mom in her forties, ...

Why Do We Pray? We Pray to Know God

“What should I pray for? What do I really want?” Here the Bible challenges us to ask a different question. In fact, what we pray for is not even the ...

Hospitality: Entertaining Angels Unaware

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. ...

Comfort vs. Contentment

A first-century Roman proverb warns: “Money is like seawater: the more a man drinks, the thirstier he becomes.” Now, I don’t know if Jesus knew that saying — maybe He ...

Finding Hope in a Hopeless World

These three remain: faith, hope and love. — 1 Corinthians 13:13Faith, hope, and love. According to the Bible these are three indispensable and eternally enduring commodities, ones we ultimately can’t ...

For the Love Book Club Starts Tuesday

It’s almost here! (I have not been this excited since Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake started the History of Rap series.)On Tuesday night we launch our four-week For the Love ...

Pray Audacious Prayers

When Martin Luther’s coworker became ill, the reformer prayed boldly for healing.“I besought the Almighty with great vigor,” he wrote. “I attacked him with his own weapons, quoting from Scripture ...

Prayer: The Best Thing We Can Do

Jimmy never missed a church service. I knew him when I was a teenager growing up in Scotland, and I can still remember how he prayed at our Tuesday night ...

4 Benefits of Reading Biographies With Your Children

My kids love to read. My oldest daughter enjoys mysteries and adventures into the unknown. My middle girl likes stories of lighter fare with lovable protagonists or animals that talk. ...

Q&A with Colleen Coble — "The Inn at Ocean's Edge"

Can we just say… Colleen Coble was so FUN and GRACIOUS!You guys, we had the best chat with Colleen Coble, CEO of the American Christian Fiction Writers and author of ...

Five Ways to Help Your Child Trust God in Tough Times

When life is interrupted by distress or disaster, trusting God can be hard for adults, but especially for children. Children need help dealing with tragedy and understanding how to trust ...

Respecting Boundaries

We have personal boundaries, personal property lines, in our relationship with God. God has designed the world so that boundaries are to be respected. He respects ours, and we need ...

God is in the Details

And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. . . So God created the great ...

Courageous Yes - Confident No

My husband was out of town recently when a box was delivered to my doorstep. It was rather large. Not the size of a dresser but definitely larger than the ...

Where Sin Abounds, Grace Abounds All the More

Failures of the KingsQuite unlike any national history of antiquity that I know of, the Old Testament writers almost delight in telling you how sinful their nation is and how ...

Desperate Prayer: Driven to Her Knees

One of the greatest heartaches a woman can experience is the inability to have a child of her own. Not every woman longs for motherhood, but for women who do ...

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Face Uncertain Times with Unbreakable Courage

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