3 Blessings to Ask for This Father’s Day
This Father’s Day, you might be expecting gifts like the usual neckties, power tools, and hand-drawn cards from your children and grandchildren. The Bible also invites you to ask your heavenly Father for spiritual blessings that can help you grow in faith and fatherhood. As a dad, you know that fatherhood is full of ups and downs. In the past…
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Parenting with Confidence
I didn’t know my heart could be so full. One look at my newborn’s tiny face, and I knew all my future choices would revolve around how best to care and provide for that little one. As I studied those little hands and feet, I was struck by the great privilege and responsibility of guiding a human through life. I…
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Answered Prayer: Inmates Find Freedom in Christ
Jack* sat in a group of men. He tried to draw a picture of the horrific things he’d seen and experienced—the things he’d done. The things that landed him in prison. He scratched at his paper with a pencil, leaving a crude sketch of the pain he held inside him. As he’d done many nights, he returned to his bunk,…
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How Labyrinths Can Help Us Walk in the Peace Jesus Promises
The light slants on smooth marble. The room is still. Everything has been cleared, even the hard pews and baptismal font, those familiar markers of corporate worship. An elaborate pattern is laid out in front of me, taking up the majority of the floor. In twists and turns, it traces a path in concentric circles to its center. I stand…
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After the Hurricane: Rebuilding Hope in Texas
Bible engagement isn’t just about reading a passage each day or even reflecting on a Scripture text. It’s also about letting God’s Word change and motivate us. When we see others in tragic circumstances, the Bible expects us to help them. We asked a new friend from Houston to report on the situation there, and to help us know how…
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How to Develop Disciples: Offer Biblical Hope in Practical Ways
My wife makes the best peanut butter and jelly.I don’t know this firsthand. I don’t eat PB&J regularly, nor are my children raving about the sandwiches they eat. But every Saturday morning, starting at 5 AM, friends of ours who are homeless and heroin-addicted remind me.A few years ago, some church friends and I began bringing a couple dozen sandwiches…
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Wish You Were Someone Else? See Yourself Through God’s Eyes
I floated in my pool, thinking of all the ways I’d be a whole new person. It was the summer before 9th grade, and I had the highest of hopes for the new, improved high school version of me. High school Hannah would be hilarious. She would be stylish but not too stylish—she wouldn’t seem overly eager. She’d be smart,…
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