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When Your Mess Becomes Your Message
Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for You are the one I praise. — Jeremiah 17:14For twenty years, my brother was ...
Teaching Older Siblings to Care for Younger Children
Teaching older siblings to care for younger children is especially important to my family. My four children’s ages span a range of about eight years. My oldest is closing in ...
Questions to Help the Control Freak (Me)
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. — Proverbs 31:26The other day my son, a smart preteen, was up to the challenge ...
Let God Define Good
God at times permits tragedies. He permits the ground to grow dry and stalks to grow bare. He allows Satan to unleash mayhem. But he doesn’t allow Satan to triumph. ...
Words Lead to Actions
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. — 1 John 3:18 I used to teach elementary school, and each year for ...
3 Studies on Prayer
There are many mysteries in the Christian faith, and prayer is one that I know many people have a hard time grasping. There are many questions on the hows, whys, ...
Fear Factor
No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave ...
Mom Time: Why It's Important to Find Time for Yourself
For me becoming a mom was the fruition of a lifelong dream. I used to wonder why women would talk about needing a break, needing some mom time. I thought ...
Family Night Tips: Make It Fun Not Forced
There’s nothing worse than forced, family nights! I can hear that parent now, “You will have fun whether you like it or not!”I don’t want to have to twist my ...
God Promises Good Plans For Your Life
“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. Then ...
Speak Love: Making Your Words Matter
We have two options when we use our words: we can build or we can destroy. The Bible puts it even more seriously than that: Proverbs 18:21: The tongue has ...
Thank You, Lord
When you pray, how much of your prayer is spent praising and thanking God, and how much is spent making requests? What’s wrong with having too little gratitude in your ...
Introducing the FaithGateway Store!
Have you seen the FaithGateway Store? We celebrated our Grand Opening last week and FaithGateway now has its own online store! With more than 5,000 different books, DVDs, and CDs ...
3 Studies on Social Justice
In Genesis 12, God told Abraham that he would be blessed to be a blessing, and that all the peoples of the earth would be blessed through him. That is ...
The Measure of a Leader's Success
If we judged success by worldly standards, some might be inclined to assess Paul’s leadership career as an abject failure and a bitter disappointment. In the closing days of his ...
Wealth Is Not Evil, the Worship of Money Is
Editor’s Note: Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover has just been released in a new classic anniversary edition and is out in bookstores nationwide this month. In this New York ...
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