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God Stands With the Marginalized and the Oppressed

This guest post is by Cara Meredith, author of the book, The Color of Life: A Journey Toward Love and Racial Justice (Zondervan, 2019). Guest Post by Cara Meredith When I was in full-time ministry, I always returned to the story of the woman caught in adultery. At first, I was drawn to it for […]

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Thinking About Your Thinking

By Taylor Kiser “You’re the devil!” I screamed at my doctor with fat, hot tears streaming down my face as my dad carried me over his shoulder out the door. She had just told me I was medically unstable and would need to be admitted to the hospital that evening. Thoughts started racing through my […]

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George Floyd and the Way Forward

This guest post is by Bryan Loritts, author of the book, Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All (Zondervan, 2018). Guest Post by Bryan Loritts “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the […]

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The Apostles’ Code: The Holy Spirit in You

By O.S. Hawkins One of the saddest verses in the Bible is found in the aftermath of Jesus’ arrest in Gethsemane’s garden. Of the apostles, the Bible simply records, “Then they all forsook him and fled” (Mark 14:50). They had been so bold and boastful of their commitment to him just hours before. But when […]

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How to Handle Seasons of Delay in a God-Honoring Way

By Banning Liebscher I hate delays. I do everything I can to avoid them. I stay away from certain streets, airports, and the freeway during high-traffic hours because I hate delays. I don’t think I’m alone in this; so much of the technology of our modern world is built around eliminating delays wherever we find […]

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What Really Matters to Me at the End of My Life?

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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Making the Words Our Own

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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Are Millennials Afraid of Marriage?

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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Three Strategies to Help You Harness Interruptions

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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One of the Most Empowering Gifts We Can Give Kids

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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