Prepare Your Heart for Worship with God’s Word
Lately, my Sunday mornings have looked a lot like a season finale of The Amazing Race. I run out of my house five minutes behind schedule, spill coffee on my shirt, and spend 30 seconds trying to make the stain disappear before running back inside to start from square one. On the drive to church, I hit every red light.…
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One “To-Do” You Might Have Forgotten this Christmas
As I write this blog on December 22, I have checked a lot of things off my Christmas “to-do” list. I have: Made my family’s famous Christmas cookies—the kind my grandma, mom and aunts have made every year since 1953, when my grandma clipped the recipe from a magazine to celebrate her first child’s Christmas. Traveled across multiple states to…
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Is Memorizing the Bible Worth It?
Some words stay with you. Several years ago, I was struggling to get into the habit of reading the Bible. Not only did I not know where to begin, but I also lacked the discipline to stick to a regular routine. I asked a leader in my church for some guidance, and he quoted Galatians 6:7 to me: “whatever one…
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5 Ways to Pray for Cuba
This week President Obama announced that the United States would begin to normalize relations with Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years. We still don’t know the full consequences of this decision, but they have the potential to open Cuba to fresh influences and could be a significant opportunity for the Christian Church here—which has been growing…
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Finding Hope When Christmas is Painful
It was a cold Sunday morning, Christmas Day of 1988, when Celia was faced with every parent’s nightmare. She originally had plans to go to her church’s Christmas morning service, but instead, she found herself face to face with police who knocked on her door to tell her that her 19-year-old son, David, had been shot and was in the…
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6 Scripture Verses for When the Holidays Hurt
Christmas is often called the most wonderful time of the year, marked by smiling faces, excitement in the air, and friends and family gathered to celebrate Christ’s birth. Yet for those dealing with feelings of loneliness, the Christmas season can be brutal. Maybe you feel like you are on the outside looking in. Everyone else seems joyous and peaceful and…
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Can the Bible Tell Me What to Do?
“Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice” (James 1:22 GNT). Thorough Bible study does not end in your head. It filters out through your synapses and sinews. You become a doer of what God says, putting into practice what you’ve learned. But how? The details can get confusing. Old Testament laws nixed…
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