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God Works While We Wait: Just the Right Time

Editor’s note: Friends, we hope you join us for the Waiting Here for You Online Bible Study starting December 4th. Let’s spend this wonderful and yet challenging season waiting on Jesus with ...

Burying the Hatchet: The Offending Party

Every broken relationship has an offending party. True reconciliation calls for a repentant heart on their part, a change of mind, a turn-around, a going back to someone with an ...

Christmas Traditions That Keep Christ In Christmas

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). – Matthew 1:23 Every year, as my husband and ...

Celebrate Advent with Your Family: 3 Simple Tips for Celebrating Advent with Children

Advent is coming soon for Christians around the world, but do you really know what Advent is? Advent is the season of waiting for Christmas. It begins on the fourth ...

Keeping Christ in Christmas: 5 Easy, Intentional Ideas

Christ-focused Christmas I was just telling a friend how I haven’t been in a very festive mood. It’s not that I don’t like celebrating, it’s just that my kids have ...

The Theology of Gratitude

Editor’s note: Anxiety can overwhelm every single one of us. In his book, Calm Your Anxiety, Robert Morgan (who is a fellow sufferer) shares how to deal with anxiety as ...

The Tabernacle and the Temple

EXODUS 25:1–9 / EPHESIANS 2:19–22 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full ...

Talkin’ to God

Editor’s note: We’ve heard her sing. We all know that famous smile and red hair. Now, country music’s Reba McEntire shares her secret to the best things in life — ...

The Platform of Love

Editor's note: If you've ever had an In-N-Out burger, you know their dedication to serving really delicious fast food. This year is the 75th anniversary — 75 years of Double Doubles, shakes, ...

Stop Giving CPR to Dead Situations

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 ...

The Myth: True Success Is Always Doing More

The Myth: On Saturday, I went to my cousin’s high school graduation party. One of my aunts asked me what I had been up to lately. She knows I am ...

Late-Night Prayer Sessions

Editor’s note: Emily Ley’s new book Near the Night is a perfect read especially for those of us who struggle with sleep. These meditations on God’s peace and rest will ...

Perfection: No One Is Expecting Me to Be Perfect

Editor’s note: Emily Ley’s new book Near the Night is a perfect read especially for those of us who struggle with sleep. These meditations on God’s peace and rest will ...

Rooted: The Myth — I’ll have time for my family later

The Myth: I’ll have time for my family later. My family complains when I miss a soccer game, when I’m late for dinner, or when I have to work at ...

How Great Thou Art

Editor's note: In The Faith of Elvis, Billy Stanely (Elvis' step-brother) illuminates Elvis’s journey of faith in Jesus — from the notes Elvis made in his beloved Bible to his struggles with ...

I Can’t but God Can

My first car — an old Buick Century — was the “Sport Coupe” model. It said so right under the spoiler. Or it had before the accident. The guy who’d ...

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Free Bible Study featuring Max Lucado!

Free Bible Study featuring Max Lucado!

Face Uncertain Times with Unbreakable Courage

Join the FREE Online Bible Study and get access to 6 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 10/5