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Life has devastating challenges. We can choose to be overcome by them, or see them through the lens of faith and overcome them!

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The Spark of Prayer

By Diana Aydin2 min read

God can use all of us to help those in need, regardless of our weaknesses and limitations. And prayer is the first step. The necessary spark that can make things happen.

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How to Save a Life

By Terry Squires2 min read

The stakes are high. And parents and grandparents must guide teens through the many temptations that will be thrown their way.

Vigil held In Queens, New York for victims Of earthquake In Nepal

6 Ways to Pray When There Are No Words

By Bob Hostetler4 min read

What can a person say at such times, when words seem so inadequate? What should we pray when we don’t know what to pray? How can we possibly intercede for so many people, for such great need?

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7 Reasons to Give Thanks for America

By Rick Hamlin1 min read

For the National Day of Prayer on May 7, here are words of praise for our country.

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When in Rome

By Rick Hamlin3 min read

Rome is where Paul is often thought to have found his violent end. There, in dark prison, he wrote positive, light-suffused, love-filled words.

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I don’t want to think of my fear in terms that it may really occur. And I have every hope that it won’t. But I also know that we are not promised a life free of struggles. In fact, Jesus said that we’d have them.

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School Violence

By Terry Squires2 min read

Cling to the power of knowledge, prayer, preparation and God’s protection as we keep our teens safe.

Lilies of the Field

By Diana Aydin3 min read

I’ve never been especially good at memorizing Scripture. But part of a verse came over me in my moment of spazzing. Only it didn’t feel like it was coming from me. It was like God himself was talking to me.

‘The Messengers’

By jtoomer1 min read

Faith meets the supernatural on The CW’s new show.

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4 Ways to Pray in a Labyrinth

By Bob Hostetler3 min read

Some Christians, preachers and churches think labyrinths are weird, even pagan. But the form itself is no more pagan or Christian than a book or a musical note.

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What to Believe?

By Michelle Medlock Adams3 min read

I am so thankful that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I am so grateful that I won’t wake up tomorrow and discover that grace is no longer available to me or that prayer only works on Tuesdays.