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How Long, Lord?

Editor’s note: This devotion is helpful for all of us in a season of waiting and hurting. But, notably, April 23-29 is National Infertility Awareness Week. Today, let’s pray for ...

Being Right Doesn't Give You the Right

Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin. — Proverbs 17:19 I just love to have the last word. Especially in my marriage. And my insistence on being the last one to ...

You Are Essential: Everyday Heroes

The word hero gets thrown around a lot. A friend who brings you coffee on a busy day might seem like a hero in that moment, but the real heroes ...

God Knows the Vindication You Seek

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for ...

Champions Find God’s Strength in Their Own Weakness

It would be so much more comfortable if God would keep us in our “strength zone,” wouldn’t it? But God keeps thrusting us into our “weakness zone” because it is ...

You Were Made for This Moment: Cozy in the Culture

Esther 1:1-2:18 WELCOME The middle school lunchroom. Do you remember the place? Plastic trays, mystery meat, mini-milk cartons, soggy potato chips… and you. You’re a twelve-year-old kid who has just ...

How Long Has It Been Like This?

Pain Changes Our Brains and Our Lives Within my first few sessions with clients who’ve experienced childhood trauma, they usually find a way to communicate that their pain isn’t valid ...

But They Seem to Get Away with Everything

“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold... Get rid of all ...

Discovering God’s Dream for You

God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around ...

Strong and Confident

I was taught that courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s the willingness to face your fear. Confidence doesn’t mean we don’t have self-doubt; it means we push forward, take ...

Angels Are for Real

Speculation about the nature of angels has been around since long before Queen Victoria’s time, and it continues down to the present time. Yet through revelation in the Bible God ...

The Battle Buddy

Editor’s note: Ladies, we need friends! We need people who have our back, hear us, know us, support us, and let us do and be the same for them. Does ...

Matters of the Heart

Arise I awoke in the desert on Easter morning. Through the window of my tent, I could see branches of a pinion pine, the sharp tines of a yucca, and ...

Jesus: God with Us

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; ...

The Glorious Truth of Easter Day: My Lord Is Living!

I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! — Revelation 1:18 Flowers! Easter lilies! Speak to me this morning the same ...

Yet Not as I will, But as You Will

Editor’s note: Today is Good Friday, the day that our Lord Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice so that we could be saved. What obedience! Enjoy this excerpt from His ...

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Face Uncertain Times with Unbreakable Courage

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