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Is Prayer Your Last Priority?

Corrie ten Boom once asked, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” John and Danny describe key prayers to pray for your kids. Featuring author Teri Lynne Underwood.

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Developing Your Leadership Skills as a Woman

Popular guest Deborah Pegues is back to encourage women in influential roles. With years of personal experience and expertise, Deborah examines twelve traits of strong leadership and counters that with tendencies we need to let go.

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The Burden of Depression: Beauty in the Browns

Relying on God to carry the burden of depression

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Help Your Kids Stand With God in Today’s Culture

We can help our kids grow to stand strong and trust God in the face of the world’s intolerance of their worldview.

Deborah Smith Pegues is a best-selling author of 16 books including the award-winning 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue

Confronting Others With Grace

Deborah Smith Pegues offers helpful strategies for ending disputes and restoring relational unity in a discussion based on her book Confronting Without Offending: Positive and Practical Steps to Resolving Conflict.

Devotional: Provision and Peace in Times of Distress

Even though you may feel the isolation from others during this time, listen to the voice of Jesus and practice Psalm 77:11. Remember how God has met you in the past issues of life. He will not fail to do this again for you.

What Can Christians Do for the Persecuted Church?

Prayer and the Difference It Makes

Throughout the Bible, believers are called to pray. But what is prayer? What does it mean to “pray without ceasing?” And does prayer really make a difference?

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Brittany Weistling: Painting a Brand-New Picture

While making faith and art her own, Brittany Weistling realizes she is God’s masterpiece.

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Discovering Your God-Given Purpose

Do you feel like a fish out of water? Your prolonged dissatisfaction, God-given gifts, passions and the voices of others could be telling you that you were created for another purpose.

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Desperate for Love

Kendra was searching for affirmation … in all the wrong places

Mostly Forgiven

Why do we live in this land of “mostly forgiving?” Why do we find it so hard to forgive and truly forget?

What to Expect at College

Professor J. Budziszewski offers solid advice for new college students.

The Right Tool for the Right Job

We can find one of the best pictures of spiritual gifts way back in the second book of the Bible.

Employed by God

Is there a difference between “sacred” and “secular” work?

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Faith at School and Work

“Mom, do you realize that more than 30 kids said hello to you as you walked through the halls in the last few minutes? They must like to see you here at school!” Cole, B.J. Pennick’s eighth-grade son, was proud of the attention his mom received. B.J. was there to volunteer in the office and …

Why Study God?

If the truth will set us free, then it seems quite reasonable to want to determine what truth, specifically, will set us free.

Loving: It All Begins With God

Can you imagine the freedom that would come to our hearts from having full confidence in the love of Christ? Would it help us love better?

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Navigating Life’s Storms

In fact, the Bible tells many stories of people caught in storms – political, financial, military and meteorological – who were directed into specific actions that saved their own and many other lives.

Living in High Definition

We feel trapped, desiring a confidante, yet terrified that honesty will cause those we value to permanently lock us out of their life.

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Taking Off Our ‘Happy Faces’ at Church

If you’re not interested in being honest and sharing your struggles you might as well go join a club. Why join a church at all?