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article | May 21, 2018

The room was completely full, and I was feeling stressed. We had traveled from Texas to Alabama a couple of days before and now were locked in a smallish room with 125 guys in an Alabama State Prison. My brothers and I …

article | January 22, 2020

Mandy had always been a planner. She was organized, disciplined, and never missed an opportunity to help someone else. She’d always had a plan for her life from the get-go: raised in a Christian family, homeschooled from kindergarten to high school, surrounded …

article | September 6, 2011

I recently attended a girls' ministry forum where we spent the weekend talking about how to teach young women just like you to love and live like Jesus. One of the highlights for me was a team of child psychologists who have …

article | July 7, 2014

The better you know and understand the members in your class enables you connect more quickly and deeply with them. Here are some principles to develop that connection. Understand preconceived assumptions about your class. Know if your class is marketed with low …

article | September 16, 2008

I just got back from the funeral of a very good friend of mine. He was a youth pastor, a teacher, a father, a husband, and a trustworthy friend. He leaves behind a wife and five kids. He was thirty-three. Tragedies like …

article | December 16, 2010

I'm not much of a sports fan, so when I sit down to catch a game with my husband or head to the ballpark with my two boys I tend to pay attention to anything but the plays. Maybe that's why I …

article | February 18, 2016

When I think about “standing for truth,” this uneasy feeling awakes inside me, and socially-awkward visions of feeling like an outsider start to play in my mind’s eye. I think of those times in high school when I wracked my brain for …

article | January 1, 2008

Money Matters Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it. (13:11) An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end. (20:21) Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, …

article | July 17, 2019

Laura was one of my closest friends in high school. She invited me to church long before I became a Christian. Once I turned my life over to Christ, she was a friend I ran to often with my questions about God …

article | June 9, 2020

Your Challenge Fix your eyes on Jesus and the finish line by reading Hebrews 12:1–3 every day for ten days. Today’s Verse Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured …