Practical Applications

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  What Does Jesus Expect When He Says, "Follow Me"? The first time I heard about becoming a Christian, I was at my grandmother’s side. “Just ask Jesus into your heart, sweetie,” she said, “and you won’t go to hell.” What girl in her right mind would reject... Dawn Wilson Oct 23, 2018
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  Sit Down and Be Seen by Jesus: Beautifying the Beatitudes I don’t really appreciate the way I learned the Beatitudes. I’m in my late forties now and I think I’m only starting to understand what’s happening in this passage at the beginning of The Sermon on the... Shawn McEvoy Oct 22, 2018
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  How to Bring Reading Into Your Home Cracking open a book is always exciting, and discovering new books to read is one of the best things about libraries. Teisha Priest Oct 19, 2018
• How to Look Beyond Romance to Love as Jesus Does Focusing too much on marriage can distract you from Jesus’ greater call on your life: to learn how to wholeheartedly love God and other people. Whitney Hopler Oct 18, 2018
• Is Your Marriage Financially Strong? Take Our Money Management Assessment All of us will face financial concerns at one time or another. Earlier in our marriage, when Steve was a carpenter, sometimes he couldn’t find work for months on end due to the rainy season. I can... Steve and Rhonda Stoppe Oct 17, 2018
• 10 Ways to Have a More Meaningful Quiet Time Are you regularly enjoying a thriving time with God in His Word? Or are you like most people who struggle with staying focused and making that time meaningful? Sometimes the hardest part is just getting to... Cindi McMenamin Oct 16, 2018
• How to Obey God, Even When You Don't Feel Like It Chubby-cheeked and charming in a yellow sundress, the little girl standing by her mother at the Macy’s checkout suddenly bolted from her side. “I don’t want to. I don’t feel like it,” she yelled at her... Dawn Wilson Oct 15, 2018
• 3 Ways to Pursue Purity in Your Dating Relationship Have you ever started a dating relationship with good intentions to pursue sexual purity, yet within a few weeks you cross a line you promised you never would? Eric Giesow Oct 12, 2018
• Why It’s Okay to Get Mad at God Sometimes When followers of Jesus find ourselves at odds with the Almighty, we face a common dilemma: Do we give voice to our anger, or do we squelch it? Oftentimes, when we face hardship—sickness or death,... Jason Hague Oct 11, 2018
• How to Know Truth and Evaluate Competing Worldviews Chris Daniel Oct 10, 2018
• 5 Steps to Take for Reviving a Dead Marriage Nothing hurts quite like a failing marriage, and there is no loneliness as intense as living with a stranger, especially one that used to be your best friend. Jennifer Slattery Oct 09, 2018
• Is Football Your Idol? 3 Ways to Know "Is ministry and worship on the Lord’s Day compromised by my allegiance to football on Saturday and Sunday?" And that's just question one, guys. Shawn McEvoy Oct 05, 2018