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Living Like You Mean It
New Year’s Resolutions It’s the time of year for resolutions, maybe a little past. If you’re late in making your resolutions that just gives you an easy place to start your list. List item number one:...
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Desires, Delight, & the Single Life
When the Desires of Your Heart Get Stuck Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. It sounds easy, at least in theory. We should be able to complete the operation,...
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Prayer is a Bloody Business
Present Day Persecution I saw it the other day for the first time. I didn’t go looking for it. I don’t revel in bloody gore. A notification babinked on my screen and I clicked. It was a message from a...
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What if I don’t fit in at church?
The following article is from a recent issue of Every Thought Captive magazine. Subscribe Today! I am single, I attend worship regularly and want to be involved in my church, but I don’t fit in....
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5 Habits to Avoid on Social Media & in the Real World
Living in the Age of Social Media What was your last status update on Facebook? Are your last 140 characters on Twitter making the world a better place right now? The internet is an amplifier. It...
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The 5 Most Dangerous Words You Can Say
“Here am I, send me.” These are quite possibly the five most dangerous words you can say. When God is looking to and fro about the earth asking, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” (Isaiah...
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Singleness is a Gift, Don’t Waste It!
The Gift of Singleness Receiving singleness as a gift is counterintuitive for most of us. Feelings of self-pity, unfairness, and ingratitude crop up, and we want to justify them which is hard to do...
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4 Things to Remember When You are Worried About a Friend
What do you do when someone you love heads in a worrisome direction? You thought your compasses were aligned and you were both heading toward the same destination, but something happened. Though the...
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Counting it All Joy When You’re Walking in the Valley
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance, and let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and...
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Standing Firm When You Feel Shaken
Most of the time living a fearless life seems impossible. Things go wrong, plans fail, we start second-guessing. We sink into confusion and worry and shamefaced retreat when the troubles of life come...
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Life Isn’t Fair
Childish Complaints Life isn’t fair. This is something my parents had no qualms about communicating to me from my very earliest years. They were not ones to give much ear to complaint. If I said,...
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How Not to Be a Doe-Eyed Pro-Lifer
We have arrived at a defining moment in the pro-life battle. The gruesome reality of abortion is stripped bare and standing before the watching eyes of a horrified America. It has been a long time...
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Is Pro-Life Ministry a Christian Duty?
“I’m pro-life, but I’m not called to pro-life ministry.” Have you heard this before? Maybe you have said it yourself. I understand how you feel. I never envisioned myself as a political activist or a...
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How to Be a Judgmental Christian
Must We “Judge Not”? If there were one declaration that the world thinks ends any moral argument with a Christian, it would have to be judge not. They think they’ve really got us with that one since...
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How to Raise Girls Who Are Neither Feminists nor Doormats
A Girl’s Life Your daughter is being poisoned by toxic messages concerning her womanhood, her value, and her place in the world. She didn’t ask to be born into a battleground, but she most certainly...
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When You’re Living in the Wasteland
Life Isn’t Always Picturesque In this wasteland where I’m livin’ There is a crack in the door filled with light… (Wasteland by NEEDTOBREATHE) It is a tricky business to successfully navigate the...
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The Cure for Worry
Overgrown Worry You may know the feeling, tension deeply rooted in the pit of your stomach burgeons outward and upward until your muscles are taut with resistance to the grasping weedy tendrils of...
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Giving Thanks for More Than Just STUFF
Giving Thanks for What We’ve Got We often think of giving thanks as being happy about the stuff we have: the warm house, hot lattes, and our new iPhone. While that is a part of thanksgiving, it may be...
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Keeping Hope Alive While You’re Waiting
Our earthly days are often strung together by threads of waiting. we catch it in mentions as our friends tell their stories: “I had given up on getting pregnant, and then along came little Jackson.”...
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When You Don’t Want a Fresh Start, You Just Want to Succeed
Frozen Possibilities A new year might open up like a fresh can of paint full to the brim with vibrant possibility. On the other hand, it might dawn with piercing frigidity leaving you stone cold...
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