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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 Life

Faith Conversation: Study Your Spouse to Develop Stronger Empathy

Is your spouse the same person you married? Your spouse keeps changing in preferences and interests. To stay current, study your spouse to understand, serve and love him or her better each day.

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Does Your Faith Reduce Your Risk of Divorce?

Authoritative research conducted at leading universities presents the case that religious service attendance makes a strong positive contribution to marriages, including a resistance to divorce.

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Faith Conversation: Forgiveness

God forgives our mistakes. When it comes to marriage, we need to have that same kind of love. Although we’ll inevitably fail each other, we can offer forgiveness and display God’s love for us. 

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Faith Conversation: Learning to Wait

We can learn to be patient with our husband or wife because we know it fosters harmony and growth in marriage. This devotion offers questions to start a conversation about patience.

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Five Steps for Making Wise Choices

When facing tough choices, it can be difficult to know the right way forward. Longtime investment banker and mentor Ken Costa offers five steps to assist in the decision-making process.

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At Home in the Storm: Raising confident and courageous kids

It’s easy to forget what our ultimate job is — to work toward preparing and releasing our kids into the world, to help them trust God and to go on to serve Him.

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Crowding the Manger

What does your Nativity say about you?

Why Easter Matters

Why the Easter Story Still Matters: A Perspective from the Holy Land

Children’s hearts are easily touched by the Easter story. Being intentional about refocusing on Christ’s resurrection power can show your children that they can invite the Lord’s peace into their circumstances.

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Nine Spiritual Temperaments

There are at least nine distinct spiritual temperaments that determine how a person worships and relates to God. See if you can recognize yourself (and your spouse) in these descriptions.

Running With Perseverance

Use these age appropriate activities to teach your children about persevering in their faith.

Holding on to Faith When Life Doesn’t Go Your Way

Whether you’re dealing with an unfaithful spouse or a child who is wreaking havoc in your home, rest assured that you, too, can have faith in the dark.

Can Virtue Be Taught?

Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.

Why Easter Matters

Why Does Easter Matter? – A Tony Evans Easter Sermon

Your child can have a more complete understanding of what Christ’s death and resurrection have already accomplished through your teaching them these four truths about Christ’s sacrifice.

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God’s Will for My Life Part 2 of 3

In part two of this three part series, John Thomas answers a question regarding knowing God’s will.

What’s Your Worldview?

What’s a worldview? Tracy Munsil explores this question.

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God’s Will for My Life Part 3 of 3

John Thomas answers a question regarding knowing God’s will.

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Writing a Family Mission Statement

Creating a mission statement can help your family concentrate on its purpose and help you as you minister to others.

Breaking Free of Midlife Boundaries

Too often, we see the church or other Christian environments as the only place we can serve. We forget how much God loves the world.

Fearlessly Facing the Unknown

Fearlessly Facing the Final Unknown

I can think of no greater pattern or encouragement for those in midlife. The abounding life continues. It started in heaven, came here for a while and ascends right on into a glorious future.

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Not Ready for the Rocking Chair: A Story

At age 54, Judy Pitt made her first trip to Africa to fulfill a dream to see the continent. Now she’s traveling there twice a year to help the people of Kenya.