Can You Tell the Difference between a Test and a Temptation?

Sometimes it’s tough to tell whether we’re facing a test or a temptation. Situations of struggle don’t always come with

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Can You Tell the Difference between a Test and a Temptation?

How to Put Your Faith in Front of Your Feelings

How do you deal with bad days? In the midst of those moments, it’s easy to feel like things will

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How to Put Your Faith in Front of Your Feelings

How the Jordan River Reflects Your Spiritual Life

Have you noticed how often hymn writers use the Jordan River as a metaphor for transitions in the spiritual life?

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How the Jordan River Reflects Your Spiritual Life

Why We Should Default to Grace Rather than to Criticism

I heard them board the airplane before I saw them. A mother was pushing one toddler in front of her

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Why We Should Default to Grace Rather than to Criticism

Living Life in the Balance with God

To hear Moses describe the Promised Land, it sounded as if it offered vast natural resources—a land where food was

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Living Life in the Balance with God

Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre Shows Our Need for a Savior

One of the biggest surprises to Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem occurs when they step inside the Church of the Holy

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Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre Shows Our Need for a Savior

You Have a Spiritual Freedom You May Not Realize

Freedom from anything begins by knowing you are free. Juneteenth is short for June 19th—a state holiday in Texas. It

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You Have a Spiritual Freedom You May Not Realize

Why Your Spiritual Consistency is Worth the Cost

Mondays are not the best days for car trouble. One morning I hopped in my car and inserted the key

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Why Your Spiritual Consistency is Worth the Cost

How God Broadens Your Limited Perspective

Have you noticed how often we tend to interpret our faith as we want it to be, rather than as

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How God Broadens Your Limited Perspective

God Lays Siege to Your Life to Restore You, Not Destroy You

In ancient Israel, a city wasn’t a city without a wall. The wall served as the primary means of protection

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God Lays Siege to Your Life to Restore You, Not Destroy You

How to Cope When God Conceals His Progress Bar of Time

I recently upgraded my iPhone and had a problem transferring the data from my old backup to the new iPhone.

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How to Cope When God Conceals His Progress Bar of Time

Do You Understand the 2 Kinds of Forgiveness?

The Bible’s teaching on forgiveness can seem confusing. Even contradictory. In fact, over the years I’ve heard one question more

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Do You Understand the 2 Kinds of Forgiveness?