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<p dir="ltr">The crisp air of fall arrives, and with it a new school year — new classrooms, new teachers, new schedules, and for many children, new influences that may challenge what they have b...
<p dir="ltr">Second Chronicles 20:12 contains one of the most honest prayers in Scripture, offered by King Jehoshaphat when three armies were advancing and there was genuinely nothing left to do in hu...
<p dir="ltr">Matthew 6:33 cuts through the noise of a full schedule with a command that is both simple and demanding: seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be ...
<p dir="ltr">Ecclesiastes 4:12 declares that a cord of three strands is not quickly broken — and the third strand is God. A union centered on Him is made strong not because the two people are pe...
<p dir="ltr">Can you imagine actually having to pull an entire plank out of your eye? The image is jarring on purpose. Jesus had a way of turning things upside down and bringing people down from their...
<p dir="ltr">School is not our life, but it is a part of our life. It is the refrain offered when children protest the more structured parts of learning, when the grumbling starts and the playing has ...
<p dir="ltr">When God does a completed work in our lives, it is like a fine pearl. Some wear their pearls for all to see. Others treasure them quietly within the chambers of the heart. Both responses ...
<p dir="ltr">Biblical scholars estimate Jesus taught in nearly 150 different outdoor settings; from mountainsides and shorelines to roads, fields, rivers, and wilderness. His parables were full of wil...
<p dir="ltr">Long summer days carry a particular quality of stillness — golden light that seems to shimmer in the distance, steady heat that slows the pace of everything, the world resting under...
<p dir="ltr">Sitting on a porch with a grandmother whose decades of faith were as steady as the chair she sat in, sharing the honest truth that sometimes it is difficult to actually like a husband eve...
<p dir="ltr">Most of us know the feeling — the words left our mouth before we thought them through, and the moment they landed we wished we could pull them back. A sharp remark in an argument, a...
<p dir="ltr">The enemy does not need us in open rebellion to keep us ineffective. Distracted and scattered is enough. If he cannot make us bad, he will make us busy — busy enough that the two th...
<p dir="ltr">A driver unwilling to wait a few minutes for a train to pass tried to race across the tracks and did not make it. Those few minutes cost him his life. It is a stark and sobering picture, ...
<p>Sanctification — being set apart, made holy, conformed to the image of Christ — is not a self-improvement project. It is the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in the life of every believe...
<p dir="ltr">Sitting on a porch in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, a woman shared through a gifted translator that she had been praying for over a year for someone to come and fix her roof. She had neve...
<p dir="ltr">Autumn is a season of beauty and anticipation — cooler temperatures, the approach of the holidays, the warm rituals of the season. And for some, it is also a season layered with gri...
<p dir="ltr">A daughter watching her mother walk through the pasture behind the house, apparently arguing with no one, asking afterward if she had been praying — because she seemed pretty annoye...
<p dir="ltr">Harold had a purple crayon that could bring anything into being — a bicycle, a friend, an entire world drawn from imagination. Children accept that kind of possibility without hesit...
<p dir="ltr">When a close friend begins to embrace theological views that feel like a personal betrayal, the temptation is not always to lash out directly. Sometimes it is subtler — social media...
<p dir="ltr">Psalm 104 opens and closes with the same three words — Praise the Lord — and in between, it builds like a rising crescendo of awe, moving through the wonders of creation until...
