By Caitlin Crosby Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world […]
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By Nik Ripkin “It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.” DEUTERONOMY 17:19 [Select from a variety of free email […]
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By Jimmy Evans The 2020 census is underway, and I suspect one of the most interesting findings will be related to millennials and marriage. If the trends bear out, we’ll soon know precisely how much the idea of marriage has declined among the generation of young adults born in the 1980s and early 1990s. These […]
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By Jennifer Fulwiler Your blue flame is your unique way to give back to others. It’s a passion that has been instilled in you that makes the world a better place when you use it. But what happens when you’re interrupted while doing the work you are meant to do? One of the reasons we […]
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By Rachel Macy Stafford Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the […]
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By Lisa Bevere Strong is not wrong. Too often Christian women are associated with weakness rather than strength. Sometimes religion has taught us to hide rather than to rise. It is true that we are called to be meek, but not weak. Meek is best defined as strength under control. Both Moses and Jesus were […]
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By Eric Metaxas The best way to answer this question is to look at what the late Billy Graham did say in the past, particularly after the September 11, 2001 attacks against the US. It was September 14, 2001—three days after the September 11 attacks robbed nearly 3,000 people of their lives. A service of […]
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By O.S. Hawkins Imagine you can smell the freshness of the cool Middle Eastern sunrise on the third day. The women arrive at the tomb early only to find that it is empty! Then they are startled by an angelic being informing them the Lord is not there but that he is risen. Then the […]
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By Max Lucado [Sign up to receive the once-a-week free email devotional, An Encouraging Word from Max Lucado] There has been much discussion recently over what to believe. Are the coronavirus numbers accurate? Are the reports from other countries dependable? Dare we be optimistic about treatments and vaccines? Like you, I’ve struggled to separate caution […]
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By O.S. Hawkins At some time or another, most of us have been caught in a “Freudian slip,” an inadvertent mistake in speech revealing an unconscious thought of some kind. This is closely akin to the “double entendre,” a particular way of saying something that has a double meaning.
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