Faith

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12 Positive Habits and How to Keep Them

By Kaylin Kaupish12 min read

What are positive habits and how can you make them a permanent part of your life?

Vintage colour lithograph from 1898 showing Father Christmas and his reindeer flying through the sky in the history of Santa Claus

The Surprising History of Santa Claus

By Kaylin Kaupish5 min read

The origins of this Christmas icon are steeped in miracles, faith, and… Coca-Cola?

Nativity set showing the history of Christmas

What is Christmas? A Brief Guide to its History and Meaning

By The Editors7 min read

What is the origin and importance of this happy and holy time of year?

Live Passionately

But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”—Luke 4:43 (NIV)

How to Embrace Jesus Every Day

By Dianne Neal Matthews2 min read

The new year brings 365 opportunities to strengthen your faith.

Start Your Day with This Traditional Prayer

By Cynthia Ruchti2 min read

We cannot know what awaits us as the old gives way to the new, but we can make a prayer, a promise, to follow Him.

How Jesus Shows Up in Your Day-to-Day Life

By Erin Keeley Marshall2 min read

Facing new challenges or new circumstances can be daunting but if you turn to Jesus for guidance, your trepidation will ease.

Decorating the Christmas tree, an older brother lifts his younger brother.

Trim Your Tree with Love

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.—Psalm 1:3 (NIV)

A woman gazes contentedly out at the ocean

See God’s Hand

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.—Genesis 50:20 (NIV)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.—Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)

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Experience the Lord’s Wonder

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!—Psalm 72:18–19 (ESV)

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Earnestly Contend for Faith

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.—Jude 1:3 (KJV)