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Your Soul Needs a Center
A soul without a center is like a house built over a sinkhole.“How collapsed you are my soul, and how you sigh over me.” On the other hand, the soul ...
Getting Kids Out of Their Comfort Zone
The first time we took our boys to a climbing gym, they stood close to us and stared up in awe at the sheer height of the climbing walls in ...
Walking in the Flow
He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this ...
Worries and Prayers: When Life Gets Hard
Let’s be real. Watching your kids navigate their way through life can be incredibly painful. Sometimes our kids face things that are even out of their control. As moms we ...
Draw Near to God in Suffering
Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. — Jeremiah 33:3At some point, we all wrestle with why ...
"Are We There Yet?" — Ideas for Making Family Travel More Fun
It is almost guaranteed that I will hear those words come from the back of my minivan in the first 25 minutes of any road trip.I get it. As a ...
How We Defeat ISIS
You know, I totally get it. I know why people aren’t that engaged in caring for the Christians — and others — whose lives are being threatened by ISIS.It’s not ...
Love: No More Sloppy Agape
Romans 12:9–21The love that Paul wishes to see in the Romans is one that works in holiness and right living. Thomas Watson, a Puritan, spoke to that point, “Faith deals ...
You are God’s Masterpiece
To see sin without grace is despair.To see grace without sin is arrogance.To see them in tandem is conversion.I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but ...
Teaching Your Child How to Handle the Bully
Loving the unlovable is hard – especially when you are a kid.“Roof, Roof, Roof, Roof,” my classmates yelled.As an adult it seems silly, but in fifth grade, this chanting of ...
Breathe Grace
Have you ever had someone you count on make a promise and then break it? How about a close friend who takes a deep secret that you shared in confidence ...
Light Looking for Darkness
Once, in a Walmart, Nick and I bought Sophia a flashlight of her very own. Sophia flipped on the one we thought would work best, trying it out. But none ...
Preaching Jesus After a Community Tragedy
Editor’s Note: This excerpt from The Hardest Sermons You’ll Ever Have to Preach features a sermon from Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, the Sunday ...
Your House is a Lifeboat
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. — Joshua 24:15For many years, Noah and his wife refused to buckle under the temptations of wickedness all around ...
Desperation, Cold Pizza, and Fasting
Aaron, Henry, and I came back to our house in Grand Rapids at the end of August. Sometime during the summer, in a process so gradual it could almost be ...
The Rings of the Lord
Jesus had an inner circle.The Bible offers plenty of examples. As a matter of fact, He had several circles or rings of relationship around Him.When the mother of James and ...
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