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FIRST Day Blog Tour – SQUAT

“We live in a squat. We don’t know squat. We don’t have squat. We don’t do squat. We don’t give a squat. People say we’re not worth squat.” Taylor Field has worked since 1986 in the inner city of New York where he is pastor of East Seventh Baptist Church/Graffiti Community Ministries. He holds a [...]

SNEAK PEEK | Seeing in the Dark

What people commonly think about depression is a witch’s brew of everything from wrong ideas about God and the Bible to what Tom Cruise had to say about Brooke Shields’ severe postpartum depression: “There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance, and depression can be cured with vitamins and exercise.” People have crazy ideas [...]

SNEAK PEEK | Married … But Not Engaged

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way A complaint is an intimate moment in disguise. —Dr. Paul Coleman Sometimes they shake Paul’s hand and have a hard time letting go. Some give him the preacher’s handshake and grab his elbow too. Though their grip may change, their eye contact is surprisingly similar and noticeably intense, [...]

SNEAK PEEK | When God Knelt Down

When God Knelt Down Excerpt taken from Furious Pursuit by Tim King and Frank Martin (WaterBrook 2006) God on his knees! Can you imagine the sight? The disciples certainly couldn’t. Jesus was in the Upper Room with his disciples the night before the Passover. For his disciples it was another chance to be with him, [...]

SNEAK PEEK | Living a Life on Loan

Your Life Is a Piece of the Puzzle My (Ricks) mother loves to do puzzles. I know I didnt inherit that gene; sitting for hours and agonizing over a small piece of cardboard is not my idea of a good time. Our dining room was home to a puzzle in progress nearly the whole time [...]

SNEAK PEEK | God Allows U-Turns for Teens

God Forgives by Helen Grace Lescheid as told by Susan Houle ABBOTSFORD, B.C., CANADA Throughout my high school years, my one true goal was to do extended mission service overseas, so when I received a letter from Youth With A Mission (YWAM), I was psyched. I worked for a year after high school graduation to [...]

SNEAK PEEK | God Allows U-Turns for Teens

A Night With the Band by Jennifer Devlin MADISON, ALABAMA Riinnnngggg…. the school bell buzzed through the hall, and immediately all the chairs screeched across the floor, backpacks flew through the air and onto backs, and the school day was finished with a mass of emotions charging down the hallway. I hated my after-school job, [...]

SNEAK PEEK | Being a Girl Who Serves (pt 3)

WE DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT–SOMETIMES WE GET MORE If you obey when God says go, your life will become more than you could have ever dreamed it would be. Sure, in the end it may not always reflect the life you would have chosen for yourself, but it will be one that counted [...]

SNEAK PEEK | Being a Girl Who Serves (pt 1)

YOU’VE GOTTA KNOW WHERE TO GO BEFORE YOU CAN GET THERE We need to learn to faithfully listen to God if we want to become faithful servants of Him. In each of our lives there will come a time–and most likely many times–when the Lord will come to us and simply say, “Go.” There are [...]

SNEAK PEAK | Your Transition to College

University of Destruction: Your Game Plan For Spiritual Victory on Campus by David Wheaton But what about your upcoming or recent transition to college? To varying degrees, you have just spent the first eighteen years of your life in familiar and secure surroundings. You went to school and spent time with friends, were involved in [...]

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