Family & Relationships
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One of the Biggest Reasons Pastors Want to Step Away from Their Ministry
Read Time: 1 Minute 21 Seconds A new study from Barna Research Group revealed that one the biggest reasons many pastors give for quitting the ministry is the political division within their church. Amazingly, 38% of pastors pointed to “current political divisions” as a factor for them making a potential career change. Both mainline (66%)
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Leaving a Legacy: The Power of History on the Hearts of Boys
Read Time: 3 Minutes 36 Seconds Until recently, boys grew up emulating real-life heroes who seemed larger than life. Coonskin caps and six-shooters were the uniforms of boyhood. Boys were enthralled with tales about Daniel Boone, John Glenn and Davy Crockett. Flannelgraph images taught us about the courage of Noah, the faith of Moses and
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Is Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Heaven?
Read Time: 3 Minutes, 10 Seconds Is it possible that behind the pearly gates of heaven there are murderers, pedophiles and cannibals walking along the streets of gold? We are taught in the book of Romans, “That if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him
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Christian Parent: Don’t Ever Stop Fighting for Your Children
Read Time: 4 Minutes 47 Seconds There are few things in life that I wish for more than a bright future for my children. Yes, I want them to be successful in whatever career or ministry God calls them to. Of course, I want them to experience the joy that comes from raising a family
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How Discipleship Stands Against Fear
Read Time: 5 Minutes 11 Seconds My family and I moved to Chicago in 2012. My son was seven at the time and had, up to that point, not lived in the city. He had grown up in a small town in Central Illinois where the buildings are shorter, the traffic slower and the people
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What Would You Do If You Discovered You Only Had 24 Hours to Live?
Read Time: 3 Minutes 3 Seconds What if you found out that you had only 24 hours to live? How long do you actually have left on this earth? Would you tell your family and your friends how much you love them? Would you finally forgive that person who hurt you? Would you ask God
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Watch: Anne Graham Lotz Says, ‘God Puts Us in His Family’
Read Time: 1 Minute 50 Seconds “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose,” (Rom. 8:28). AGL: One of the things I love about following Jesus is that He puts us in His family. And so you too,
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Kingdom Economics: Should We Expect Global Crisis or Cling to Hope?
Read Time: 3 Minutes 57 Seconds The first estimate for third quarter GDP was higher than expected. The BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) estimated that GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.6% (2.4% expected, -0.6% previous quarter). Of the 2.6% annual rate, personal consumption expenditures (PCE) accounted for 0.97%, investment -1.59%, government expenditures 0.42%
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The Clearest Sign Yet That God Has Given America Over to Depravity
Read Time: 3 Minutes 49 Seconds Drag queens reading to toddlers in libraries and schools. Drag queens engaging in indecent acts with children in gay bars. Drag queens performing in our churches. If anything was a sign that God has given America over to depravity, it is this. Rampant porn addiction is bad enough, as
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3 Lessons From the Prophetess Anna
Read Time: 3 Minutes 34 Seconds I have been slowly—very slow—reading through the Gospel of Luke in my daily time with Jesus. Though Christmas is two months away, I find myself luxuriating in the story of Jesus’ birth. Tucked in the second chapter of Luke is the story of a rather insignificant woman named Anna
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Kingdom Economics: Increasing Your Kingdom Treasure
Read Time: 3 Minutes 36 Seconds Inflation is not only a problem, but an increasing problem, throughout much of the world. Annual consumer inflation rates which are higher than the U.S. rate (8.2%) include Turkey (83.5%), Argentina (83.0%), Netherlands (14.5%), Russia (13.7%), Britain (10.1%), Germany (10.0%), Spain and Italy (8.9%) and Mexico (8.7%). Countries which
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Are You the Pharisee or The Tax Collector?
Read Time: 3 Minutes 55 Seconds As with all virtues, humility has an opposite: pride. It should not surprise us that revival and restoration begins with humility, because all “falling away” begins with pride. Pride sent the archangel Lucifer plummeting from the heights of glorious splendor near the very throne of God to very depths
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Messianic Rabbi: This One Biblical Truth Can Save Your Troubled Marriage
Read Time: 3 Minutes 13 Seconds In Judaism, we read the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) in a cycle every year beginning in the Fall. Each year as I start over, I prayerfully read the weekly portion with hopes that I will see something that I have not seen previously. Because the
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Kingdom Economics: Are We Participating in the Kingdom of God?
Read Time: 4 Minutes, 48 Seconds The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its much-anticipated September Employment Situation Report. Stock market traders had been hoping that a weaker than expected report would cause the Fed to pivot with its plans to aggressively fight inflation by increasing interest rates and reducing liquidity (via balance sheet reductions).
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Church’s ‘Heavenly’ Special Needs Ministry Makes Incredible Spiritual Impact on Families
Read Time: 1 Minute 44 Seconds A New Jersey church’s incredible effort to serve its community is inspiring hearts and minds, helping families thrive and creating a blueprint for how houses of worship can serve people with special needs. Tim Lucas, founder and lead pastor of Liquid Church in Parsippany, New Jersey, recently told Daniel
