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I have spent a lot of my Christian life feeling guilty over what I am not doing in the kingdom of God. It’s not that I am not committed to ...

The Gospel in Cultural KeyCultural engagement is one of the reasons the early church was so successful at evangelism. They had a habit of getting into the mind-set of pagans ...

It was a bitter cold Sunday in December when my heart wore the weather. At the time, we were attending a church teeming with prolific twentysomethings. Most all the women ...

I had a lot of ideas about God that weren’t actually God’s ideas about God.When our lives initially got stretched through our marital pain, the picture I had of Him ...

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. – ...

I truly believe that when the Creator of the Universe made us in His image He gave us all the ability to create art.You may be tempted to argue that ...

Much as I admire activists, I am not one. Most days I sit alone in my home office staring at a computer screen while pressing plastic keys that make an ...

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I love my people.I could write an entire book on that, which probably means this is going to be too long, but I don’t care. I want to live brave. ...

This is a double-take moment. Or one of those awkward moments when someone says something that, when you first hear it, causes you to laugh, only to realize that it ...

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere ...

Some habits create forward momentum in your life. Those same habits, if you don’t diligently keep them, create negative momentum. But I believe there’s one keystone habit that, if you ...

Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, you did for Me. — Matthew 25:40Jesus was an ambassador of ...

Some Christians are blessed to have parents who raised them in Church. I happen to be one of those lucky girls.My mom took me to Church the first Sunday of ...

It came as a series of text messages, before texting was commonplace. I was buried deep in my Bible, and God was singling out my husband.First, Nate alerted me that ...

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. – Ephesians 1:16One thing I’ve been trying to teach my boys lately is that the best ...