Life

God wants us to be intentional about the way we use our time.

I rarely dealt with or named my emotions—at least not the “negative” ones. They had to be killed, banished, ignored, and stuffed. I learned this from both Christian circles (like the counselor above) and my own fears. I didn’t want others to see my emotions.

Christian living straddles two realities. Christ is making all things new (Rev. 21:5). But no one has fully experienced that newness.

When the Bible describes God’s eternal kingdom, it paints a picture for us of the most glorious feast, nothing less than a heavenly party.

So how can we be the friends who help keep others from wandering off the trail? How can we comfort the bruised and battered? How can we help bear the pack of the weak?

There have been different views by Bible-believing Christians on what happens to our souls after we die. The majority view of Christians—I think for good reason—is that we’re conscious. “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” the apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians five.

What do you say to someone who is mourning the death of a loved one?

One slip-up, one off day, one unit of math that I didn’t understand, one week of missed school, one week of slacking off and—Boom!—my college dreams would explode into a million pieces of shattered glass.

As I share our plans, I’ve found two words to be incredibly helpful: “Lord willing.” Here are three reasons I think you should add them to your vocabulary, too.

Goals related to health, fitness, and weight loss top New Year’s resolutions year after year.

The average person is convinced that something newer and greater is just around the corner.

Christmas is often filled with regret, especially when we compare the Hallmark ideal with the realities of life in a broken world.