SPONSORSHIP – FAITH IN ACTION Our daughter Grace held a photo of a girl in her hand. Winter Jam 2013, the Holt-sponsored Christian concert tour, was revving up as the Newsboys played “We Believe.” Is this
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“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5 NIV). When I was eight years old, I read Bible verses that explained God’s love, my sin, Jesus’ sacrifice, and my need to
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I learned all I needed to know about how to lead children in the faith by watching animal documentaries. Okay, that is not entirely true. But watching Animal Planet and National Geographic will tell you
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Stop. Sniff. Stop again. Sniff again. Caught. We call our little Chihuahua-terrier mix our cordless dust buster. Wherever we happen to sit to eat, she positions herself underneath our feet so she can retrieve any
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Faith with feet – faith in action – changes lives, our own and others. On February 9, 2008, Trevor and Crystal Gosser looked forward to the birth of their first child, Kaleb, in seven weeks.
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I have often been admonished to “Finish what you start.” The thing is, I’m not a great finisher. I’m a great starter. I have great ideas, and a house full of unfinished projects. I have
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No one likes to go through pain, but Scripture tells us we can find peace–even exhorts us to find it. Therefore, peace in the pain is possible. We often hear that repetition in the Scripture
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My Wife Is… My wife is an iceberg. Massive. White. And cold. If that is the image that came to mind, then you have it all wrong. To begin with, my wife isn’t white at
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People long to be free, but, without the right guide, they will never be free indeed. From late teens to senior adults, the group arrived, and each individual found a chair. A few talked and
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The letters lay in my box—the folds showing evidence of students who had never written letters by hand, never inserted them in envelopes, and never used snail mail. The day was a typical one.
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