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Happy New Year! A Fresh Beginning

Editors Note: This is an excerpt from Being Still with God Every Day. In this 366-day devotional, each day features a scripture and a short, meaningful devotion to set minds ...

Parenting for True Success not Worldly Success

Shift your goal setting from “head goals” that focus on worldly success to “heart goals” that help your kid’s heart move toward God.Are you willing to do whatever it takes ...

Change Your Life with Just One Word

So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom. — Psalm 90:12 NASB Are you ready to change your life with just one ...

Knowing As He Knows Me

You have searched me, LORD, and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. — Psalm 139:1-2Lord, You know me. ...

Handling Our Worries and Tensions as We Face the New Year

Editors Note: This is an excerpt from The Zondervan 2015 Pastor’s Annual, an annual bestselling resource for preachers by T. T. Crabtree. The Annual provides a planned preaching program for ...

Not Quite Christmas Day

The excitement is high as we near Christmas. Nobody tries to pretend that it’s just another day. On December 25 each person gets ten minutes on the satellite phone with ...

Joy to the World!

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.” – Luke 2:10I love Christmas. I ...

Away in a Manger

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus lay down His sweet head. The stars in the bright sky looked down where He lay, The ...

The Best Belated Christmas Gift Ever

When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived.Then when the days stipulated by Moses ...

5 Ideas for Celebrating Jesus' Birthday

Last year when I was traveling back home after being on an overseas mission trip, a colleague announced, “Can you believe Christmas is just a week away?”Without thinking, I quickly ...

Jesus, True Jubilee

I remember when I first started following Jesus, I did what most people do. I opened the Bible. I didn’t really have much of a context of where to start ...

The Star: A Sign from God

Matthew 2:2 reads, Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw His star as it rose, and we have come to worship Him.Not too many children are so ...

Courageous Waiting: No Word From God Will Ever Fail

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, ...

Revival: The Need for Gospel Renewal

Definitions of RevivalThis understanding of gospel renewal differs from two widespread views of what revival is. The first view sees revival primarily as the adding of the extraordinary operations of ...

Advent: Christ in the Mess

The Logos Became SarxAdvent is a strange time of year.We look forward to the Christmas, the coming of Christ, and then when we get to Christmas, we remember what happened ...

Kids and Journaling: A New Habit for the New Year!

I used to be a journaling dropout.I would get on a kick to write something every day or would take a challenge to journal during my quiet time every day.Then ...

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