How to Cope When Your Faith is Shaken
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How to Cope When Your Faith is Shaken

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when your faith in God was challenged? In today’s culture, this is happening far too often. We have many prominent Christian leaders and influencers renouncing their faith or denying truths found in God’s Word. So how does this happen? Can you prevent it from happening? How…

When Patience is Hard: How to Find Peace in the Waiting
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When Patience is Hard: How to Find Peace in the Waiting

Let’s face it. As a culture, we love the idea of instant gratification. And when we don’t see results right away, we tend to struggle wondering if and when our results will come. If there’s one things I’ve learned, however, it’s that the most rewarding things take time. It’s through waiting that we begin to…

Are You Working Too Hard? How to Know If Your Work Is in Vain
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Are You Working Too Hard? How to Know If Your Work Is in Vain

Do you ever feel like you’re working too hard? Don’t get me wrong, hard work is usually a good thing. But then there are times when you are so overworked that you are consumed by it. Honestly, I think we’ve all been there at some point in our lives. Even as a high school student,…

Coping with Anxiety When It Happens (and trust me… it will!)
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Coping with Anxiety When It Happens (and trust me… it will!)

I was required to take a course in college on stress management, and it changed the way I thought about stress. Things WILL happen in our lives that cause stress. It’s how we deal with these “stressors” that make or break us. This class gave us many practical tools to cope, but it left out…

Taking Life One Day at a Time When You’re Emotionally Drained
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Taking Life One Day at a Time When You’re Emotionally Drained

Stress. Anxiety. Fear. We all experience it. And when it happens, it has a way of draining us both emotionally and physically. A while back, I wrote a post called 10 Bible Verses for When You’re Emotionally Drained. This post has received more traffic than any other blog post I have written by far. We obviously…

3 Reasons Why You Should Live in the Moment
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3 Reasons Why You Should Live in the Moment

As Christians, we are often taught to be eternity minded. Colossians 3 tells us to set our minds “on the things above” rather than the things of earth. And Paul often reminded the early believers of the future that awaited them to inspire them and give them hope during their difficult circumstances. But I wonder…