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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Spiritual Intimacy with God

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Bible Verses About Healing

Life in a fallen world comes with many pains, but we have the promise that God takes all things and works them out for good.

The Power of Praying Together in Marriage

Praying for your marriage is important. Every time you and your spouse pray for one another, great things happen in your relationship.

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Why Does God Allow Suffering?

To answer the question: Why does God allow suffering?, you and your children will need some logic, communication, and patience, as well as an understanding of God’s wisdom and the Bible.

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Identity in Christ: A Gen Z Viewpoint

I struggled to find my identity in Christ, trying to find my identity in materialistic things of the world. I was so consumed with gaining the “perfect” group of friends that I used alcohol to cope and did things that I’m far from proud of. This ultimately led to comparing my looks and personality to …

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Do Your Children Know How to Draw Close to God Through Prayer?

Unanswered questions about prayer may cause kids to have misconceptions. We can help correct those misunderstandings as we teach our kids how to draw closer to God through prayer.

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Spiritual Leadership Creates Intimacy in Marriage

Spiritual intimacy can be a confusing issue for many couples. Dr. Greg Smalley offers personal insights on how husbands can be spiritual leaders and wives can see beyond basic spiritual disciplines for intimacy at home.

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Pro-Life Prayer: A Response to Surprising Injustice

The most significant action we can take to further the pro-life movement is to cover our nation, and one another, in pro-life prayer.

Restoring Our Relationship With God

Before we can begin to restore our relationship with God, we need to understand that this relationship is broken to begin with and why that is the case.

Quenching Your Spiritual Drought

Help for the spiritually parched

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The Power of His Resurrection

The power of His resurrection: A powerful force that can transform us into something larger than ourselves, our family, and our grief.

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Walking With God in the Afternoon

The messages flowing from many churches tend to suggest that after 40 our gifts and capacities shrivel up and blow away.

Spring Cleaning Our Messy Hearts

Spring cleaning our hearts, by confessing our sins to God and to others, can bless us in ways we’ve never imagined.

Maintaining a Well-Balanced Prayer Life

Want a simple illustration for a life of daily prayer? Just look at your hand.

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Overcoming a Bad Church Experience

If you or your spouse have had a bad church experience in the past, you’re not alone.

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How Do I Find the Right Church?

What next? The Bible uses two terms to describe what happens when people say Yes to God and join His family. This experience, which was explained earlier, is being born again. New Christians are part of God’s family just as certainly as they are part of their earthly parents’ family. He is their Father, and …

Imagine Yourself on the Cross

It is difficult to reflect on Christ’s suffering. It is a reminder of why He had to die, of his horrific suffering and of the sadness surrounding it. But it benefits us to consider, in depth, his death.

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See The Kingdom of God

In the book, “Same Kind of Different as Me,” a wealthy and beautiful Texan named Deborah Hall is drawn into a magnificent obsession of helping Union Gospel Mission in Fort Worth. Her husband recalls that the first time they visited the rundown facility in a bad part of town, Deborah stopped him in the parking …

Developing a Life of Prayer

You will grow in intimacy with God as you take the time to talk with Him each day.

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Intimacy With God: The Way to True Fulfillment

Having intimacy with God means realizing that abundant life will never be found in another person.

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3 Ways to Keep the Best New Year’s Resolution for your Kids

Need a New Year’s resolution your kids can keep? This year, resolve to intentionally listen for God’s voice in Scripture and respond to Him.