God Still Hears When You Pray Like a Child
We all gathered around the kitchen before breakfast. “Time to say the prayer,” I told the little people around me. With shouts of “I will!”…
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Dear Lord When I Wander, Recenter My Focus
At a local coffee shop on a recent Saturday morning, I sat at a round table cradling a coffee mug and gabbing with friends. The café buzzed with…
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God Designed Marriage to be Sacrificial
It’s been exactly 10 years and four kids since my husband and I entered the bond of holy matrimony overlooking a beautiful valley in East…
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Turning Worry into Worship Changes Everything
It’s strange how fast things enter our lives. One day I was adjusting to our youngest son going off to college and grieving the loss of my dad when…
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“God Has You in Heaven But I Have You in My Heart” TobyMac Grieves His Son in Raw New Release
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: the death of a child and the impenetrable grief accompanying such a horrific loss. Grammy…
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I Want to Raise Children Whose Hearts Belong to Jesus
I pray that I won’t spend my whole life teaching my children how to look like a Christian. I don’t want to teach them how to talk like a…
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God Chooses Us Even When We Don’t Deserve it
If you’re anything like me, the first thing you see when you take a look at yourself is how unworthy you are. Actually, maybe the first thing…
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Dear Daughter, God is Growing You
Dear daughter, You did something hard today, sweetie. Really hard. Your heart was tightly wound around all those fleshy feelings that often keep us…
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I Am a Fixer-Upper
There is no denying it. There is something about a fixer-upper story that pulls us in. If we scan the home improvement channels, we find television…
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When You Don’t Know What to Pray, God Still Hears
Do you ever find yourself having difficulty praying? Sometimes, I find myself saying my rote prayer to cover all my bases, but if I really sit down…
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