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2016 Has Been A Difficult Year – Here\'s How Advent Tells Us That All Will Be Well
2016 Has Been A Difficult Year – Here's How Advent Tells Us That All Will Be Well

Advent offers us the opportunity to look at the world afresh and gives us ultimate hope – not just the hope of turning over a new leaf, but the hope that in the midst of the suffering, despair and disaster, God is coming...

Is It Time To Let Jesus Surprise You?
Is It Time To Let Jesus Surprise You?

The Jesus we read about in the Bible is a deeply unsettling figure – constantly upending expectations, disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed.

3 People in the Bible Who Are Great Examples of Keeping an Attitude of Gratitude
3 People in the Bible Who Are Great Examples of Keeping an Attitude of Gratitude

Here are some people in the Bible who are great examples of keeping an attitude of gratitude.

3 Things You Need to Preach the Gospel Effectively
3 Things You Need to Preach the Gospel Effectively

Are you one of those who've tried to share it but failed in your attempt? Or are you one of those who don't know how to share the gospel? Let me encourage you. If you rely on Christ's love and the Holy Spirit's power, you can do it.

3 Ways to Care for the Temple of The Holy Spirit, Your Body
3 Ways to Care for the Temple of The Holy Spirit, Your Body

Take care of your body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You use it to serve God.

Why Does the Bible Make Such a Big Thing About Humility?
Why Does the Bible Make Such a Big Thing About Humility?

If we want to experience God's fullness, we need to be attached to Him like our life depends on it, and that requires a whole lot of humility.

Why God Doesn\'t Remove All Pain and Sickness
Why God Doesn't Remove All Pain and Sickness

Why doesn't God heal all diseases or at least not in the abruptness and methodology that we would want Him to?

How to Be Angry Without Sinning
How to Be Angry Without Sinning

So how can we respond to anger in a way that is not sinful? Here are three tips to digest and keep in mind in times we get angry.

4 Ways to Respond When Someone Is Giving the Uncomfortable Truth About Yourself
4 Ways to Respond When Someone Is Giving the Uncomfortable Truth About Yourself

Here are four ways that we can respond to make the most of uncomfortable truths others speak to us.

Christmas Is Coming — Here Are 3 Neat Ideas for You to Celebrate It
Christmas Is Coming — Here Are 3 Neat Ideas for You to Celebrate It

Here are a few neat ideas on how you can celebrate Christmas — while exalting Christ as you do.

3 Ways to Be Grateful to God Every Day
3 Ways to Be Grateful to God Every Day

God's love is so great, and His grace so amazing, that anyone who experiences Him cannot stop but desire to respond in kind. Are you thinking of ways to show your gratefulness to God for His goodness? Here are but some ways.

Gratitude: An Attitude that Should Stay After Thanksgiving
Gratitude: An Attitude that Should Stay After Thanksgiving

Let Christ be your reason to be grateful always.

What I Learned When A Third Of My Church Congregation Left
What I Learned When A Third Of My Church Congregation Left

This past summer almost a third of the congregation at my church left. For a church with an average weekly attendance of 30-40 you really notice when 10 of them have gone.

What You Didn\'t Know About Malachi 3:10
What You Didn't Know About Malachi 3:10

Here are a few things we must understand about the tithe and about Malachi 3:10 that will help us understand giving more.

Why Dating Is as Much About Being \'the One\' as Finding \'the One\'
Why Dating Is as Much About Being 'the One' as Finding 'the One'

Andy Stanley once said, "We should become the person that the person we're looking for is looking for."

5 Ways to Engage in Healthy Conflict With Christian Brothers and Sisters
5 Ways to Engage in Healthy Conflict With Christian Brothers and Sisters

There is a fine line between quarreling and conflict. Here are five ways we can engage in healthy conflict without it leading to harmful quarreling.