Prayer is a Gift of the Heart This Christmas
With all of the hustle and bustle of the season, it can be challenging to maintain a practical focus on the birth of Christ. Amid the parties, shopping, wrapping, baking, and fun activities, Christ can fade into the background if we aren’t...
Traditions Build Strong Families: 50 Ways to Celebrate Christmas
How to Create a Christmas Memory Book of Faith
The Christmas Grab Bag: A Fun Family Activity
Family traditions are a memorable part of Christmas. For many, the Christmas season is not complete without trimming the tree, baking cookies, and searching for that special gift. Christmas PJ's, reading the Christmas story, helping someone in...
Pondering Gratitude
Though we celebrate Thanksgiving as a holiday, filled with feasting, family, and friends, thanksgiving is for every day. In reality, thankfulness is an orientation of the heart rather than an activity or event. Thankfulness seeps out of our very...
When Love Runs on Empty
We pour time and energy into relationships, service, and work, giving to others. When we try to give what we neglect to receive, it doesn't take long to find ourselves stranded on detours of disappointment, bitterness, or resentment.
Last Words on Love Are Not to Be Forgotten
Because love is hard and love is necessary. Like oxygen, we can't live without it.
Because love is where life is lived, salvation worked out, and victory won.
Because loving God and loving one another is the one foundation we cannot do without.
Knowing + Doing = Blessing
Knowing is not enough by itself. You can't know yourself into heaven, and you can't know yourself into caring for others. Knowing is nearly a dead thing, having no power to produce life or motivate love. It is the doing that changes everything. Discover practical help in applying God's truth to your life.
Five Powerful Truths About Discipleship to Embrace Today
Don't reduce discipleship to a dry concept stuffed tight with information that withers unused on the back shelves of our lives.
There is life to be lived well in the reality of being a disciple. God wants to teach and train us how to live and love with joy and authenticity.
