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The Best of You This Christmas

The holiday season is here. Like me, your focus is likely shifting to all of the needs and expectations around you. You can quickly fall into painful patterns of pleasing ...

The Day When Hope Was Born

The tree is trimmed and decorated and glowing with lights. The gifts are wrapped and tied with bows and arranged carefully beneath. The stockings are hung by the fire and ...

The Promise Is Fulfilled

God did fulfill His promise to Sarah. At the age of ninety, she and Abraham welcomed their first child into the world. This time, she laughed with joy. She named ...

Turning Adversity and Heartache Into Miraculous Living

The Other Joseph Joseph, the son of Jacob, was only seventeen when his world came crashing down. His own brothers threw him into a well and left him for dead. ...

What’s the Best Christmas Gift for Your Kids?

Good question. I’ve tried everything, from ridiculously expensive “must-have” toys like My Size Barbie (a gift that was abandoned as soon as our four-year-old stole all her clothes) to a ...

The Strength That Prevails

He has made His people strong. — Psalm 148:14 NLT WELCOME Welcome to session 1 of Resilient. This first session includes material from the Introduction, “No Ordinary Moment,” and chapter ...

The Most WONDERful Time of the Year

A few years back I had the amazing, awe-inspiring privilege of going to the Grand Canyon. My band and I were touring my new album, and while in Phoenix, we ...

Prepare Your Heart

We usually attend a little church in Big Sky Montana during the Christmas season. As I ponder what Advent means to me, I think about the people in our church ...

All Eyes on Jesus

Look at the Star They went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the ...

God’s Recipe for Revival

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, ...

Hurt: But How Do I Get Through the Next 86,400 Seconds?

The God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm ...

Bethlehem

Let Us Go to Bethlehem Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us. — Luke ...

Revealing God’s Love through Relationships

The salvation of your family, your workplace, and your city is not all on you. Jesus is the One who saves lives, who heals marriages, who sets people free from ...

The Universal Ache of Waiting – Our Advent

Watching NFL with my boys on Sunday afternoon tells me much about the world. The boys toss the football in the backyard during halftime commercials, and I observe the messages ...

Books to Give to Sports Fans and Athletes

Calling all sports fans! Who ever said sports lovers aren't bookworms too? Not us! We've gathered books from some favorite sports heroes just for you! Football, baseball, basketball, golf, everything ...

Cool Water on a Hot Day

Editor’s pick: Give your kids or grandkids the Bible that is the most recommended by Christian schools and churches! The bestselling Adventure Bible® comes in 5 great translations and dozens ...

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