A study done over 20 years determined that 70% of all families fight over their portion of an inheritance. It was done over an extended...
In today’s culture, rest is, at best, optional. Busyness is the new social status. Resting makes you lazy or unproductive. The busier...
Matthew 11:28-30 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from...
George Müller was a missionary in the 1800s who also started and coordinated orphanages in England. He never asked for money, never...
Jesus calls each of us by name. But when it comes to Martha, the calling has a different purpose. Martha, Mary, and their brother...
The term more defines so much of our lives – in little ways when we were kids and always wanted more cookies to much more serious ways...
When our circumstances change, it tremendously impacts our confidence in God. It impacts our faith. Have you ever been on a flight...
Every Black Friday, we hear about the sales seekers and the lengths they’ll go to to get a coveted item or items at a discounted price....
When it comes to our lives, there are places where we are faced with the long way home, places where there is no shortcut. Whether...
Very often in our lives, we have small things that take on oversized significance. Think about the act of proposing. Someone gets down...
Sometimes in life, we don’t get what we asked for. We don’t get what we want but don’t want to be empty-handed, so we accept what’s...
When was the last time you went on a trip? No matter how relaxing, crazy, or life-changing it was, it’s safe to assume that we all long...
We love stories. Telling them, hearing them, and thinking about them. It’s why we have a favorite movie, book, or television series....
At one point or another, we all might want to be something we’re not. A nerd might want to be a jock, a jock might want to be a...
Many of us secretly love endings because we get to see how it all works out. Some of us might even fast-forward through a tv show or...
We often think about what will happen in the end. What do we have to be on the lookout for? Knowing what happens, in the end, is the...
We have the heart to want to pray, but often it’s ourselves who get in the way or fear that stops us from going to God. When we pray...
Whether we realize it or not, there’s a price tag to every decision we make (or don’t make) with our lives. We trade something – our...
We’ve all experienced a situation where something very little took on a life of its own, becoming so much bigger than it actually was....
Maybe you share a vacation with your extended family once a year, maybe you always spend this holiday there or another one somewhere...
There are moments when we all can’t handle it anymore and want to break down. Think of when you’re taking a longer trip and will be...
Numbers 20 1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There...
Meltdown is when you lose control in some other way than surrendering to God, and in every meltdown situation, there’s an underlying...
In our faith, there are two concepts of God: God beyond us or God with us. We use His nearness to avoid His power or holiness, and we...
Reality and perspective are generally two different concepts. When our reality becomes bigger than our perspective, we see change. In...
We can all look back on our lives and point to examples of challenging situations, knowing that what we’re about to face may be a new...
From God’s perspective, so many people are lost and without help. They can’t find their way, and they’re headed to the edge of a...
One of the healthiest things we can do is check our assumptions. What are we assuming that we might not have even thought we were? Why...
What if the experience you had going to church or attending a small group is not a recharge but an actual power source, meaning when...
There are things in life that we struggle to do. And for some of us, that’s prayer. When the topic of prayer comes up, we feel guilty....
One part of prayer that has incredibly complicated feelings and experiences around it is the prayer for healing. Our beliefs and our...
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