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‘Young Man, You Look Miserable’
God changed the heart of a young “prince of preachers” all with a single, simple verse: Look to Jesus and live.Watch Now
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1 Corinthians 3:10–11: The Foundation Dictates How We Build on It
How did Paul see his role as the first preacher a church might hear? He laid the groundwork for generations of faithful preaching.Watch Now
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Five Counseling Missteps and the Holy Spirit’s Help
As we were finishing a counseling session, Jill looked at me with concern, her eyebrows furrowed. “You got distracted,” she bluntly stated. Unfortunately, Jill was right. Just outside my workspace, several pastors gathered in the church office lobby, talking and laughing. I’d got...
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Editor’s Pick: New Children’s Picture Books
Autumn is a season of changes. At our home, as the leaves yellowed and the days shortened, my youngest child started middle school. That means picture books have me feeling a little nostalgia for the past these days, right alongside a lot of excitement for new things to come. Man...
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How Memorizing the Sermon on the Mount Reorders My Heart
A couple of years ago, two college students challenged me—a woman in her 50s—to memorize the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7). Inwardly, I balked, but now I know that few things in my 35 years of following Jesus have been more transformative than committing Jesus’s most famous ser...
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Egyptian Christian Martyred in Libya
In early October, a 20-year-old Coptic Christian was kidnapped and killed at the hands of the Islamic State group. Milad Malak lived in Sebarbay, Egypt, and served as a church deacon at a local Coptic church. However, because of the country’s economic decline, he traveled to Liby...