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Wicca: What You Should Know

Witchcraft has been around a long time. But its promises are empty. Here is what you should know about Wicca.

How Do I Respond to Bible Critics?

Contemporary critics sometimes claim that since the Bible contains so many miracles, it just can’t be true. Either these are just made up stories, they argue, or simple people were just tricked.

Setting Goals to Fulfill Your God-Given Purpose

Setting Goals to Fulfill Your God-Given Purpose

Because goals are the map that will guide you toward your God-given purpose, without setting them you will also wander in circles without getting where you need to go.

How to Pray Every Day

Here’s a creative, helpful way to have a place for each prayer request so you can be sure to pray every day.

Making Time to Pray

Prayer honors God, builds your faith and helps you see things from the Lord’s perspective. Will you take the time to pray?

Trusting: Let God Do the Driving

I don’t know about you, but I have never had any success trying to boss someone around while attempting to trust them simultaneously. Trying to be in control and relinquishing control at the same time just doesn’t work.

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Honest to God: Getting Real With Christ During Adversity

Adversity has the potential to move us closer to God if we are willing to be honest with Him during trials.

Quenching Your Spiritual Drought

Help for the spiritually parched

Train Them Up

Helpful tips for raising godly children.

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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.

The Power of God-given Imagination

When imagination and excitement are mixed together, you will either not notice obstacles or they will be largely diminished—and, therefore, your courage will increase! This is important to remember as you pursue your God-given purpose.

How Do I Handle Bible Difficulties?

Theologically liberal approaches to the Bible often simply accept contradictions as part of a flawed record. But if the Bible is God’s Word, and if God is all knowing and all powerful, it stands to reason we should be able to trust the Bible.

How Did We Get the Bible?

Some people think the Bible was all written down about the same time, copied and distributed. But the Bible is not “instant” Scripture and it wasn’t all written down around the same time.

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Living a High Definition, Transparent Marriage

Oftentimes couples try to keep their spouses in the dark when it comes to their mistakes, justifying that it’s not that big of a deal.

Faith and Children

Many Christian parents face a paradox: How can some children hear the good news of the Bible and believe, while others hear the same message and remain unaffected? While the process of faith may be miraculous, it is not entirely mysterious. Jesus explained it in His parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-23). Teaching received without …

Maintaining a Well-Balanced Prayer Life

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

What Drains Us of Courageous Faith?

Materialism conditions our soul to play life very safe and to be very selfish. By contrast, courage requires an ability to be dangerously unselfish.

Two Truths About Your God-Given Purpose

Are you frustrated or discouraged because God has revealed His purpose for your life, but you feel it’s taking too long for His plans to unfold? Here are three important things to remember as you experience the journey of moving toward your God-given purpose.

How Do I Interpret the Bible?

Unlike some postmodern approaches to written texts that claim there really is no objective meaning to writing throughout the centuries, Christians have interpreted the Bible and continuously drawn out Christianity’s essential foundations.

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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.