Seeing a friend suffer is hard, but sometimes that suffering gives us a new perspective. I remember when one of my closest friends lost his son and asked me to do his memorial service. After years of being clean after rehab…
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Imagine a man who wants to bail out of his marriage, who is tempted to hit his teenage son in his anger, who struggles with lust daily. That man is a pastor. His name is Chip Ingram. Think you’re alone…
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“Don’t worry! Think positive! If you just believe everything is going to be okay, it will be.” That’s the message we sometimes hear from today’s self-help experts. But it’s hard to ignore that the world around us is struggling. Terrorism…
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Close your eyes and think about something or someone that makes you feel safe … that makes you feel like you’re okay and you always will be. Now imagine that whatever or whoever it is fails you. Your perfect boyfriend…
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Grace. It’s the single most important word in all of the New Testament – actually, in all of the Bible. The Apostle Paul would say of his entire life: “But by the grace of God I am what I am,…
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We have all been called worthless. Whether it was a friend, a parent, a significant other, or a voice inside us said it, we all have gotten the message at some point that we have no value. Some of us…
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It was 3:29 a.m. and I was wide-awake. The interruption from my deep and wonderful sleep began at about 2:58 a.m. Normally when this happens, I am bombarded by a long list of to-dos, a concern about a relationship, a…
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How can we possibly explain Christians who… Forgive ISIS as they’re about to be beheaded Exude joy in the midst of life confined in a wheelchair Trust again after their mate has been sexually unfaithful March into the Coliseum in…
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Ever have one of “those days” when everything just seems to be going wrong? You get up in the morning still tired from a less-than-perfect-night’s sleep and you turn on the news only to hear one catastrophe after another. You’re…
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