Dealing with Doubt: 3 Bible Verses to Encourage Your Faith
Imagine being remembered for only one event in your life. “Doubting Thomas” could probably tell us how this feels. One of the only disciples who was not present the first time Jesus appeared to his followers, Thomas declared that he would not believe that Jesus was alive until he could touch Jesus’s wounds. One week later, Jesus appeared to the…
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Please Pray: Indigenous People in Kenya Need God’s Word
Kenya is a country of great cultural and linguistic diversity. Today, there are more than 70 different ethnic groups across the nation. And each group has its own distinct way of life—including food, dress, family traditions, and language. Although there are varying ways of life amongst Kenya’s native people, many of these ethnic groups have one thing in common: they…
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God Most Nigh
As the calendar ticks closer to Christmas, one of the first carols we sing at church is “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” It always gives me goosebumps, not only because the tune is so beautiful, but because I’m reminded that this name (also spelled Immanuel), assigned to Jesus about 700 years before his birth (Isaiah 7:14), means “God with us.”…
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Feeling Down This Season? Find Hope in God’s Word
You wonder how you used to do it all: the presents, the Christmas parties, the holiday lights. What once was a delight now feels like a chore. You find yourself looking at your calendar and dreading the jam-packed weekends, the get-togethers you can’t get out of. It’s like all this forced happiness is having the opposite effect on me, you…
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Pray for the Vulnerable Children of Guyana
The children in Guyana are hurting. Many suffer from physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Tragically, too often the ones who should be protecting these children are the ones inflicting the pain—a parent, a relative, or a caretaker. As the number of child abuse cases reported each year in Guyana continues to rise, there simply isn’t enough help. Access to mental…
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Good Food and God’s Goodness
Growing up in New England, my family would drive out to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, each year for our two weeks of summer vacation. I have many memories from decades of these vacations, and most of them are “sense memories”—the smell of the salty breeze, the feel of the sand under my feet, and the foods my family ate only while on…
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Praise God: The Javanese People of Suriname have a Full Bible!
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Javanese immigrants left Java, Indonesia, to work the sugar plantations and factories of Dutch colonial Suriname. While some Javanese eventually returned to Indonesia, many chose to stay in Suriname. Today, there are more than 75,000 Javanese speakers in Suriname. Although the community elders could read the Indonesian Javanese Bible, the Javanese language…
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