Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
Part of our healing comes with forgiveness (of ourselves and others), and part of it comes with repentance....
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Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
Part of our healing comes with forgiveness (of ourselves and others), and part of it comes with repentance....
READ MOREWe have dissected God, and man, and the gospel, and we have thousands, if not millions, of facts — all of it quite dead. It’s not that these insights aren’t true; it’s that they no longer speak. I could tell you a few facts about God, for example...
READ MOREStasi Eldredge's book, "Free to Be Me", helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
Hi. I’m Stasi and, okay, yes, it’s been a while since I was in middle school or high school, or even was...
READ MOREAs we love him, experience him, allow his life to fill ours, the personality of Jesus transforms our personalities. The timid become bold and the bold become patient and the patient become fierce and the uptight become free and the religious...
READ MORETime has come for us to forgive our fathers. Paul warns us that unforgiveness and bitterness can wreck our lives and the lives of others (Eph. 4:31; Heb. 12:15). I am sorry to think of all the years my wife endured the anger and bitterness that I...
READ MOREGod speaks to us. In many, many ways. But most often, he wants to speak to us intimately, personally; he wants us to hear his voice and feel confident that we are hearing from him. The beauty of prayer for guidance is that it requires two-way...
READ MOREWe usually think of the middle years of the Christian life as a time of acquiring better habits and their accompanying virtues. But inviting Jesus into the "aching abyss" of our heart perhaps has more to do with holding our heart hopefully in...
READ MORECertainly, you will admit that God is glorious. Is there anyone more kind? Is there anyone more creative? Is there anyone more valiant? Is there anyone more true? Is there anyone more daring? Is there anyone more beautiful? Is there anyone more...
READ MOREThere is a famous passage of Scripture that many people have heard in the context of an invitation to know Christ as Savior. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in (Rev. 3:20...
READ MOREThe stories from our past that shaped us and the words that were spoken over our lives that have crippled us do not stand a chance in the light of the powerful grace and mercy that come to us now in the Person of Jesus. We do not have to remain...
READ MORESo long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us.
—Simon Tugwell
Can it possibly get any more uncertain than this? We so long for...
The shriveled figure lay in the sun like a pile of rags dumped there by accident. It hardly appeared to be human. But those who used the gate to go in and out of Jerusalem recognized him. He was disabled, dropped off there every morning by...
READ MOREThough we don’t have all the control and assurance we may want, we as God’s beloved can be certain of many things…
We know that we are more than conquerors through him who loves us. We know that nothing, nothing, nothing will be able to...
READ MOREIt's undeniable: the new covenant, accomplished through the work of Christ, means that we have new hearts. Our hearts are good. Or God's a liar. Until we embrace that stunning truth, we will find it really hard to make decisions, because we can't...
READ MOREWe cannot know the plans of God for us beyond His promises that He is working for our good at all times. And often we are far from comfortable as we wait. But, just as David wrote in the psalm, we, too, can remember God’s great love and...
READ MOREHow do you understand your life? Why has it turned out so differently from what you imagined? What do you make of its randomness? The phone rings, and you have no idea what is coming. It could be great news! It could be an old friend getting back...
READ MOREStasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
There’s a reason they made a movie with the title Mean Girls. It’s because girls can be vicious. They...
READ MOREGod wants an intimate relationship with us. He is not a God who is far away; he is the God who has made us his dwelling place. We are the temple of the Lord. When by faith, we confess that Jesus is LORD, he comes and makes his home ...
READ MOREAt one point in the long, arduous campaign of delivering to Judah the bad news of coming judgment and futile calls for repentance, Jeremiah explodes with thoughts that have apparently been building in him for a while with regard to God's use of...
READ MOREThe crisis of hope that afflicts the church today is a crisis of imagination. Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft writes: Medieval imagery (which is almost totally biblical imagery) of light, jewels, stars, candles, trumpets, and angels no...
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