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- How to Pray When Anger Has Taken Your Words AwayAnger can make prayer feel impossible. The mind races, the body tightens, and every sentence seems either too sharp to offer God or too tangled to say aloud.…
- Navigating church conflict with grace and truthConflict in a church can feel especially painful because the congregation is meant to be a spiritual family. A disagreement over leadership, worship, finances,…
- The Gospel in the South Without Polishing the PastThe American South has given the wider church a remarkable treasury of hymns, testimonies, preaching traditions and community ministries. From small country…
- How to play online pokies with care and confidenceOnline pokies are digital versions of the slot machines familiar to many Australian players. They combine reels, symbols, bonus rounds, and themed graphics in…
- What My Grandmother’s Garden Taught Me About ResurrectionMy grandmother’s garden was never large enough to impress a landscaper. It sat behind a weathered Queenslander, bordered by wire fencing and a row of stones…
- Writing a letter to God when your heart feels anxiousAn anxious heart often moves faster than the body. It rehearses tomorrow’s conversation, calculates every possible loss and returns to the same troubling…
- When A Failed Business Deepened My FaithI used to believe that a successful business would settle the restless places in my heart. If the sales grew, the bills were paid and customers returned, I…
- The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline Of HospitalityHospitality is easy to mistake for entertaining. We picture a clean home, a generous meal and guests who fit comfortably into our routines. Yet Christian…
- Why I Stopped Praying for a Miracle and Started Trusting the ProcessThere was a season when my prayers became a daily emergency broadcast. I prayed for the diagnosis to change, the bank balance to recover, the marriage tension…
- Raising Teenagers Who Love the Church: A Parent’s GuideTeenagers do not usually reject faith because they have run out of information. Often, they are asking whether Christianity is honest, whether the church sees…