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Approximate Reading Time: 9 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) History is filled with stories of those who came to Christ after first being convinced of God’s necessary existence. Likewise, there are many who have fallen away because it made more sense […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have a unique power over sickness. We can keep a house with three children from getting the flu. A single parent can be kept healthy so they don’t have to miss a week of work. We have an incredible ability to demonstrate our love for others by keeping them safe, and all we have
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Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) We want it. We pray for it. In our constant pursuit of Christ, we desire nothing more than a deeper relationship with Him, founded upon an unshakeable faith in our perfect Savior.
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Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can choose a future topic! Patreon supporters help choose the content that challenges and encourages readers every day. If you’d like to submit your own article ideas, or simply support this blog, click the button below to become a Patron! Here’s what you can look forward to reading this week Love People By Staying
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Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutesIn our culture, there’s a dangerous pattern many young Christians fall in to. After that incredible moment of asking Christ to save them from their sins, many Christians go sit in a pew for decades and see no real growth. In time, God brings them under deep conviction to do more than simply coast along.
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesIn an age of scientific discovery, the origins of the universe seem all but certain. Though we can’t go back and see what happened, the majority of the educated world believes in some form of “big bang” start to the universe. Then there are those weird Christians who seem to stand in stark defiance to
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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesThe topic of disciplining children is a sensitive one. Some believe in physical discipline, time outs, or something else entirely. Quite often, these beliefs are formed by our childhoods. Yet regardless of the example set by our earthly parents, whether good or bad, we have a perfect Heavenly Father whose purposes are worth emulating. So
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Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Android podcast app.) There may be no greater pain than a parent losing their child. We find ourselves in a unique time in history where not only are parents losing their children through no fault
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Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m excited to tackle another topic from one of my Patreon donors, write a follow-up to a donor’s previous article, make progress on those 65 questions, and look at an important topic for parents. Are You a Casual Christian? Do Babies Go to Heaven? The Purpose of Disciplining Children What is Young Earth Creationism?
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Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesIt can be hard to discover that someone doesn’t like us. Some can quickly brush it off, while others may lie awake for hours as it eats away at them. Still, all of us are at least a little bothered by it in some way. After all, they’d surely feel different if they knew the
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