For teenagers, growing closer to God depends on their personality, interests, and relationship with God.
Trust in God
I struggled to find my identity in Christ, trying to find my identity in materialistic things of the world. I was so consumed with gaining the “perfect” group of friends that I used alcohol to cope and did things that I’m far from proud of. This ultimately led to comparing my looks and personality to …
His words remind us (again) that, by His death, He rescued us from the fear of our death. Therefore we are released from having to “cower through life, scared to death of death.”
When we focus so much on the world’s idea of wisdom, we kill off our connection to God’s truth.
I don’t know about you, but I have never had any success trying to boss someone around while attempting to trust them simultaneously. Trying to be in control and relinquishing control at the same time just doesn’t work.
Adversity has the potential to move us closer to God if we are willing to be honest with Him during trials.
Desperate longings can tempt us do desperate, disobedient things. Desire not submitted to Christ can make us to lose our sensibility, justify our behavior, and make excuses.
We are all tempted to believe that deadly tsunamis, bone-chilling temperatures or collapsing stock markets mean things are out of control. That is simply not true.
When we were young boys living in Australia, our dad was a concert promoter. On one particular tour he lost everything – our house, our car, our family’s life savings.
There is a right way to look at foster to adopt and a wrong way.
Childhood cancer brought the presence of God in ways they never knew existed.
How Luke Smallbone maintaining his faith and trusting in God amid struggles has inspired For King & Country’s musical journey
May is National Foster Care Month. This is Shreya Ramachandran’s story of finding hope and healing in Christ.
A Naval Corpsman’s injury in Afghanistan changed his career and his marriage. But God used the trauma for good.
Six years passed between Kristen receiving a cancer diagnosis and becoming an adoptive mom. She knows that God planned every moment in between.
The moment I realized that God would use me, in spite of my weaknesses
Dr. Tyler Sexton can’t do everything, but his positive attitude and his unwavering belief that God loves him have helped him overcome many of the limitations of his cerebral palsy.
Aaron and Melissa Klein endured long court battles and ultimately suffered the loss of their bakery after refusing to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. But their faith and marriage relationship proved strong.
How one family came to recognize God’s faithfulness as He provided for them at each step of their adoption journey.
When I trust God wholeheartedly — even amid trials in my life or in my marriage — I can see that the Lord is using everything so that I reflect His image in my life. But this isn’t always easy.
