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Did You Expect Your Marriage to Be Easy?
When we get married, most of us believe deep down that while lots of marriages are really hard, our marriage will be different. We all start out so eager to encourage, support, and please each other....
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How to Please a Holy God
Do you live a life that is pleasing to God at all times? What are your aims and goals for this year with regards to your walk with the Lord? If you are like me, you likely desire to please God in all...
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Headscarves and Hashtags
Many voices have weighed in on the debate as to whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Wheaton’s Professor Hawkins was only reflecting the sentiment of half the country — and perhaps a...
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Seven Things to Do After You Look at Pornography
A lot of Christian advice about porn addicts is unhelpful — meaning, it doesn’t contribute to real progress in repentance, healing, restoration, and recovery. Most of all, it fails to address the...
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Better Than a Birth Plan
You had a C-section? I am so sorry. Maybe you can try for a natural birth next time. I have this amazing doula and birth center. I had an all-natural water birth there last year.I was at a baby shower...
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Hope for the Unhappy Christian
On the outside, Chloe appears to have it all together. She is single, has a career, and is fairly active in her local church. But she’s lonely, disenchanted by her career, and feels detached from his...
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Why Did Jesus Let Lazarus Die?
Jesus loved Lazarus, and Jesus let Lazarus die. Is that possible? Love does not always look like what we expect.Watch Now
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Three Gifts We Need, But Hate to Receive
Before any birthday party or the annual mayhem of Christmas morning, I always prepare my children for what to say when they open a present. I tell them that no matter what they open — whether it is...
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How to Recognize a Foolish Leader
No matter who is elected President of the United States in November, he or she will be a sinner. He or she will be fallible and will, like all presidents, make some serious mistakes. We will not elect...
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God’s Good News in Bad News
I’m concerned that so many Christians, when we get news — say of an earthquake or of a tsunami, and 100,000 people are wiped away, not to mention our own personal news — almost instinctively today, it...
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Tough and Tinder
Tinder is a popular dating app driven by the premise that relationships should be easy to fire up. Smartphone users are served a stream of images of available singles. Swipe-left to disregard....
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The Whole Bible in One Meal
I saw the new Star Wars film recently. The last scene (slight spoiler warning) is a wordless image that summarizes the goal of all the action of the film and points ahead to the plots of the sequels....
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The Insanity of ‘Self-Care’
The self-care movement strives to address the stresses of everyday life with simple, practical habits.Clinically, “self-care” has to do with anything someone might do for the sake of their own physical...
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Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy
A team of eleven pastors and scholars walk us through Holy Week with short meditations for each morning and evening from Palm Sunday to the triumph of Easter.Read Now
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It’s Not a Talent Show
God does not apportion talents equally to his servants. He gives more to some and less to others. Each apportionment has its unique temptations. But at one point, Jesus delivered a warning to less...
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The Root of Mental Health
After medication, perhaps the most common remedy for most behavioral and mental disorders is — and has been for almost half a century — some form of self-worth enhancement. It pervades our educational...
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God’s Love Allows Pain and Loss
If Jesus loved Lazarus enough to let him die, what can we learn from this about love? Here are three important principles for how we should love one another.Watch Now
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Why I Was Not Pro-Life
True confession: I was not truly pro-life until recently.Although I was disturbed by the reports I heard regarding abortion — its methods, its victims, its very nature, its utter disregard for the...
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Does Same-Sex Attraction Disqualify Someone from Ministry?
We’ve all seen the ever-increasing barrage of Christian posts, comments, and opinions about the LGBT movement in America. Many have responded with angry rebuttals and a fearful cowering to a culture...
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Three Lessons from the Farmer About Faith
My brother-in-law Travis, a farmer, daily dips his hands in the fertile south Texas soil that is his family’s very provision. In the current season, the realized hope of summer harvest has past, and...
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