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We didn't have anything to do with our birth. We are all here because some woman somewhere gave us life. Her pain, her effort, for our life. And when...

Why is silence so hard to deal with? Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time than to just be in...

What does it mean to have a relationship with God? What does it look like? For a lot of us it's a hard thing to fully understand. If God is an...

With everything that we've got going on every day, how many of us ever think about our breathing, about the meaning of breathing? Yet, for thousands...

God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we've got...

Suffering the loss of someone we love can be the most difficult thing in life to deal with. One moment we have them and the next they're gone. What...

I love those shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What's up with the word "love"? It doesn't have much meaning when we use it so loosely....

We all compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us even wish we were someone else. We...

There's a popular bumper sticker that reads "God Bless America," but hasn't America already been blessed? It's easy for us to fall into a mindset of...

We all get consumed with ourselves; sometimes we're not even aware of it. We learn from a young age that life is about winning and impressing. We...

Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can...

Some of the central claims of the Christian faith are the source of many discussions and heated debates. But are we always debating the right things?...

A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some...

How much time and energy do we spend wishing things were how they used to be? We often think about times in our past when things were different and...

We all get angry about things from time to time—some of us more often than others. For some of us, it feels like we're constantly on the brink...