I once had to drive on a winding mountain road in severe winter conditions. Since I am from Florida, this took great concentration and patience. I drove my car with a laser-like focus on the road ahead, so I never even noticed...

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The busyness of cooking, traveling, making arrangements for others, watching football, and even shopping for Christmas tends to crowd out the actual idea of giving thanks. Add to that the increasing secularization...

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I've always wanted to see wild horses in person, the ones that seem to run with unrelenting courage and strength. Leaving behind whatever was, and only seeing what is ahead. I don’t remember the exact movie ...

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For centuries, theologians and scholars have struggled to explain how man is made in the image of God. Some argue that we bear the image of God because we are ...

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It was an unexpected gift at the end of a very long day and a twenty-one-hour flight. I and my team from Life Outreach Ministries had landed the previous evening in Luanda, the capital of Angola in Central Africa. We were there on a mission ...

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Grace is God’s greatest idea. That he would treat us according to his heart and not ours. That he would see us and see his Son. That he would relentlessly attach himself to ...

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The weather finally cooled after a record-setting summer. It had been so hot and dry that we struggled just to keep our yard from dying. Then the temperature dropped and it rained. I’ve never see...

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For your own spiritual health, you need to be moving everyone, every day, closer to Jesus and spending your quality time with friends who are doing it as well. The dedicated body of Christ is going to be of paramount importance...

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Many Christians View the Old Testament law negatively. But the apostle Paul also wrote, “the Law is holy” (Rom. 7:12) and “the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully” (1 Tim. 1:8). There’s nothing wrong ...

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In his letter to the Philippians, Paul told his friends to practice what they’d seen him do. This is a common encouragement from Paul, who wrote to the Corinthians and told them the same thing, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). If Paul was living his life as a sacrifice...

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