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Flowers and Plants of the Bible

Editor’s note: Spring is here and the flowers are celebrating! Enjoy this special excerpt from The Woman’s Study Bible about flowers, gardens, and vegetation in honor of the beauty of ...

Scar

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. — Psalm 147:3 We were well into a three-year process of building a new home for our family in the early ...

Food, Grief, and Other Distractions

Sweet company refreshes the soul and awakens our hearts with joy. ~ James Herriot I suspect that a decade from now, maybe sooner, there will be scores of college classes ...

Let Go of Regrets

Editor's note: Pastor Kim (also known as Real Talk Kim) says it how it is. She's full of spunk and Jesus and she loves to share the joy and hope ...

God's Timing

The Lord is good to those who hope in Him, to those who seek Him. It is good to wait quietly for the Lord to save. — Lamentations 3:25–26 NCV ...

Do You Have a Guardian Angel?

Scripture reference Genesis 3:24, Matthew 18:10, Acts 12:1-16  All theologians agree that one role of angels is to serve as guards. In fact, we see that in the very first book ...

The Encouraging Truth About Angels

My visitor had no wings, no flowing white robe, but he did seem to have a warm glow. He was affable and empathetic. Intuitively, I knew right away that he ...

The Breastplate of Patrick

I bind to myself todaythe strong power of the invocation of the Trinity:The faith of the Trinity in the UnityThe Creator of the elements.I bind to myself today,the power of ...

How Would Jesus Handle Life Drainers?

One of my friends likes to use the term life drainers for people who aren’t concerned about conflict resolution or relationship reconciliation, but whose primary intention is to prove they ...

Compelled to Pray

Compelled by Problems in Our World Daniel’s prayer pulsates with this type of emotional conviction. His life for sixty-seven years had been difficult at best. As an old man, he ...

The Only Love That Never Fails

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will ...

God Will Help You Get Through Grief

We don’t discuss graveyards to brighten our day. Cemeteries aren’t typically known for their inspiration. But an exception was found in a graveyard near Bethany. And that one exception is ...

Whose Agenda is Our Concern Anyway?

The first petition in the Lord’s Prayer is that God’s name be hallowed. The second petition, “Your Kingdom come,” builds on the first by showing us how God’s name is ...

Jehoshaphat, Isaiah, and Job: Prayers for a Time Such As This

For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You. — 2 Chronicles ...

Surrounded, Alone

Then the woman... came trembling and fell at His feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched Him and how she had been instantly ...

No Matter What, God Is Faithful

 LAMENTATIONS Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. — Lamentations 3:22-23 Jerusalem had been under ...

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