Christmas is the season of choice. If you want to buy a food processor, Amazon offers you 2,000 types. Or how about a drill—there are more than 40,000 options. No, I’m not making those numbers up. Choices can be glorious, and confusing, and empowering, and overwhelming, all at the same time. And in the West […]

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Deep in the Congo, at a Christian mission, a young woman died in childbirth as she gave birth to a premature baby. The missionaries tried to improvise an incubator, but the only hot water bottle they had was beyond repair. So, they prayed for the baby and for her little sister who was now an […]

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A few years ago, The Edge, U2’s guitarist, took his son out trick-or-treating in L.A. Both The Edge and his son dressed in The Edge’s trademark black beanie, black leather jacket with a guitar slung around his neck. As they walked away from one door, they heard the couple in the house say, “That’s a […]

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When Christ’s image is reflected in us His work of purifying is accomplished.

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When trials make us feel lost and it seems there are no good directions, we look to God for the only true path.

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Until its composition is determined, its value is unknown.

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Mary Daniel hadn’t seen her husband for 114 days due to coronavirus restrictions at the senior care facility where he lives. Her husband, Steve, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s seven years ago and moved into a care facility in Jacksonville, Florida. She said she had been visiting her husband every night and would get him ready […]

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