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The One Thing You’ll Never Be Able to Buy Online

Almost everything and anything is available to us through the internet. Entertainment. Education. Knowledge awaits at our fingertips. One click and a product from across the world arrives at your doorstep. But one thing still remains that you can’t go bid on eBay or...

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What to Do When Your Future Feels Flimsy

Two white, wooden rocking chairs move in rhythm on a crisp spring morning. The pinkish hues of dawn disappear as the sun climbs into the sky. My fingers clutch my husband, Leif’s knee. The back of my hand is marred by the wrinkles and sunspots I’ve long since given up...

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Need a Boost of Joy? Here’s 1 Surefire Trick

Need a Boost of Joy? Here’s 1 Surefire Trick

The calendar flipped to November in a blink. Seven Saturday’s until Christmas. A handful until Thanksgiving. The to-do lists jog onto two, even three pages. Life’s abuzz with the excitement of the holiday season—a season of joy and gratitude and God’s goodness. But in...

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Announcing Margaret’s Newest Release: Fight Back With Joy

Announcing Margaret’s Newest Release: Fight Back With Joy

Dear Friend, If we’re connected on social media, you may have heard that I was diagnosed with cancer and have been on a challenging journey. To be completely honest, I was really unsure where the path would lead. I felt like my world hadn’t only turned upside-down,...

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5 Creative Ways to Celebrate Halloween

To celebrate Halloween or to ignore it? That is the question Christian families have been asking themselves for decades. Halloween has become almost impossible to completely ignore due to the media and consumer hype behind the princesses, ghosts, and snack-sized...

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How To Find Your Phone Before You Lose It

How To Find Your Phone Before You Lose It

I’m notorious for losing my iPhone. I’ve left it in restaurants, jacket pockets, friend’s cars, parking lots, and more. Sometime ago I nicknamed by iPhone “Lassie,” because I always need him to come home. On a recent trip to L.A., Lassie went on his own adventure. I’m...

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What Happens When You Live a Posture of Praise

Let me introduce you to Sarah. Sarah Francis Martin is a wife, mother, mentor, and author of Just RISE UP!: A Call To Make Jesus Famous. She has a passion to ignite this generation to get up off the couch of complacency and do life differently for God’s kingdom. When...

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4 Signs You May Be Suffering From Spiritual Decay

Athens in ruins. Such words evoke centuries old images of one of the great cities reduced to rubble. The images of Athens in ruins you’ll see below are startling. Not because their thousands of years old, but demonstrate what can happen in ten short years since the...

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This Challenge Will Reset Your Whole Week

Over the years, I’ve discovered that even a brief moment in the presence of God can change everything—my perspective, attitude, and reaction. Being aware of and experiencing God’s presence reminds me of my dependence on God. He is the source of everything—joy,...

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