5 Bible Verses to Help Your Love Shine
What does love have to do with the Bible? Well, that’s pretty obvious, you might think. After all, Scripture tells us about the amazing love God showed to us by sending his Son to die for our sins. But the Bible also guides us in expressing a practical, everyday love inspired by our faith. And when we take a closer…
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5 Verses to Help Trade Stress for Peace
I just can’t catch a break. I remember hearing my mom utter these words at her most stressful times when I was a kid. I also remember thinking, “Could it really be that bad?” Now that I’m adult, I better understand how my mom sometimes feels. There are days—and even weeks—when I just can’t seem to catch a break. Do…
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Answered Prayer! Healing Breaks Out in Ghana Witch Camp
Yayra was accused of being a witch. It was an indictment that came with beatings and humiliation. Then Yayra was exiled from her home and sent to live in a witch camp. For decades, Ghanaian women falsely accused of practicing witchcraft have been banished to remote camps in Northern Ghana. They live in flimsy mud houses with thatched roofs. Abandoned…
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Journey with Jesus in the Desert
The season of Lent is upon us, beginning last week with Ash Wednesday. In many churches, clergy traced ashes across recipients’ foreheads, reciting the words, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.” This somber reminder led us into a 40-day journey, mirroring Jesus’s time of being tested in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). We enter into the…
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Liberia a Nation in Desperate Need of Hope
Liberia is paralyzed by a chronic fuel shortage. For over a month, this small nation on the west coast of Africa has been living with close to no gasoline. Vehicles are lined up at gas stations. People sleep in their cars as they wait for hours. Scarcity has forced taxis and buses to hike fares so high that Liberians are…
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Marked for all to see I’ll never forget the first time I received ashes on my forehead on Ash Wednesday. I was part of a non-denominational church in New York City, a church that, although it was a relatively new church plant, was committed to be grounded in the historic practices of Christianity. The words spoken over me at the…
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4 Prayers of Joy to Fight Winter Doldrums
I haven’t seen the sun in four days. OK, I’m being a bit dramatic. But I’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to wake up to sun shining and birds singing. I wake up instead to wintery rain tapping my window. And it makes me want to do what bears do best and hibernate. Should we all just call it quits for…
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