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- i.Prayer & Worship
Is It Wrong to Pray Against Your Enemies? What the Imprecatory Psalms Teach
The Psalms do ask God to judge enemies. What those cursing prayers mean, how Jesus changes them, and how to pray honestly when someone has hurt you.
- ii.Faith Questions
Are Ouija Boards Harmless? What Christians Should Know
Most of what happens on a Ouija board has a simple psychological explanation. Scripture's warning is about what the board is for. A calm, biblical answer.
- iii.Faith Questions
Should Christians Watch Horror Movies? A Practical Way to Decide
Scripture never mentions horror films, but it says plenty about fear, the occult and what we feed our minds. Five honest questions to help you decide.
- iv.Faith Questions
Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? Start With All Saints' Day
Scripture never mentions Halloween. Here is the history of All Hallows' Eve, Reformation Day and All Saints, and how Christian families can decide well.
- v.Lifestyle
How a Simple Morning Routine Transformed My Faith
I used to scroll my phone for twenty minutes before getting out of bed. Then one Monday I accidentally opened my Bible app first. That small accident changed my entire year.
- vi.Faith & Rest
Rest Is Not Laziness: What the Sabbath Taught Me About Productivity
My therapist told me to rest more. My pastor told me to rest more. I ignored both of them for two years. Then I burned out so completely that I had no choice but to stop — and what I found in the stillness shocked me.
- vii.Community
When Church People Disappoint You
The elder who I most respected said something cruel about my family at a leadership meeting. I found out through a mutual friend. That was three years ago. Here's what happened next.
- viii.Relationships
Marriage After Kids: Keeping Love Alive When You Are Exhausted
Our first year with a newborn nearly wrecked us. We had three conversations a day: Have you eaten? Did he nap? Where is the Tylenol? Then our pastor said something at a conference that stopped us cold.
- ix.Stewardship
Generosity Changes You More Than It Changes Anyone Else
I started tithing at thirty-two, mostly out of obligation. I kept expecting to feel broke. Instead, I felt free. It took me years to understand why.
- x.Relationships
Praying for a Spouse Who Doesn't Share Your Faith
My husband came to faith seven years after I did. Those seven years were the most spiritually stretching of my life — and not in ways I expected.
- xi.Mental Health
Being a Christian With Anxiety: What I Wish the Church Would Say
For years I thought my anxiety was a faith problem. If I just prayed more, trusted more, memorized more Scripture, it would lift. It didn't. And the shame of that silence nearly cost me everything.
- xii.Bible Life
How to Read the Bible When It Feels Like a Textbook
I hit a wall around year three of daily Bible reading. The words felt familiar but flat. Like re-reading a novel you've memorized — technically present but no longer surprising. Then a seminary professor told me one thing that changed everything.
- xiii.Lifestyle
Hospitality Is Not About Your House. It's About Your Heart.
My friend hosts dinner parties in a 600-square-foot apartment with mismatched dishes and one working burner. They are the best dinner parties I've ever attended. I finally asked her secret.
- xiv.Faith & Rest
Grief and the Resurrection: What Easter Means When You Are Mourning
My mother died eleven days before Easter. That year, the resurrection wasn't a doctrine to me — it was a rope I was holding with both hands over a very long drop.
- xv.Family
Raising Kids With Faith in a World That Pushes Back
My ten-year-old came home from school and announced that his friend said Christians are dumb. I wanted to fix it immediately. Then I realized fixing it wasn't my job — equipping him was.
- xvi.Lifestyle
Your Phone and Your Soul: Finding Balance in the Digital Age
I tracked my screen time for one week before trying to change it. The number was seven hours and twenty-two minutes per day. I thought I used my phone a lot. I had no idea.
- xvii.Purpose
Finding Your Calling When God Seems Quiet
I spent three years waiting for a burning-bush moment to tell me what to do with my life. It never came. What came instead was slower and more reliable.
- xviii.Faith & Rest
The Grief That Comes Before Change: Understanding Godly Sorrow
There is a kind of guilt that beats you down and a kind of sorrow that actually changes you. I confused the two for years, which is part of why I kept repeating the same mistakes.
- xix.Community
Why Deep Christian Friendship Is So Hard to Find (And How to Build It)
I have a lot of acquaintances at church. Friends — the kind who know the real stuff and show up anyway — those have been harder to find than I expected.
- xx.Faith & Rest
The Spiritual Practice of Waiting: What Advent Teaches All Year
I am a terrible waiter. In every sense of the word. I hate waiting in lines, I hate waiting for results, and I am not skilled at the spiritual practice of waiting on God. Advent ruined me, in the best way.
- xxi.Prayer & Worship
The Hardest Prayer: 'Your Will, Not Mine'
I prayed 'your will be done' for years without meaning it. I meant 'your will, as long as it aligns with my plan.' Then I faced a situation where my plan was completely unavailable, and I had to find out what I actually believed.
- xxii.Stewardship
Enough: Learning Contentment in a Culture of More
I upgraded my car the same week I told my daughter we couldn't afford her school trip. That contradiction sat in my chest like a stone for months. It was the beginning of a reckoning.
- xxiii.Prayer & Worship
When Prayer Feels Like Talking to the Ceiling
There was a six-month stretch where prayer felt completely one-directional. I talked. Nothing came back. Not silence exactly — more like static. I kept going anyway, and I want to tell you why.
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