'Tis the season to be … gloomy? Feeling low this Christmas season?  You’re not alone.  Amid cheery songs, festive parties, gifts and good wishes, many lonely people are crying or dying on the inside.  Maybe you’re one of them.  I was. During a horrible year, my wife of 20 years divorced me, my employer of 25 years fired...... >Read More

Tags: becoming a christian, challenges & conflict, Christmas, Christmas blues, depression, divorce, faith & spirituality, God, grief, hardship & suffering, holiday, loneliness, lonely, Rusty Wright, Seasonal Affective Disorder

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To...... >Read More

Tags: Armistice Day, darren hewer, family values, holiday, military, military lives, peace, Poppy Day, priorities, Remembrance, remembrance day, Vetern's Day, war

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Are you lonely in your relationship? There is someone you can talk to. “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone” (James 2:17, KJV). “How is Brandy?” I asked my aunt as we were standing in the kitchen of her home one holiday afternoon. “She’s fine”, my aunt replied as she took the turkey out of the... >Read More

Tags: Christ, dead, destiny, disobedience, double minded, faith, goals, holiday, Holy Spirit, turkey, Wallette V. McCall

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Is anger defining your relationships? Here is an Online study. Join us for our Daily Devotional Chat today in our Women’s Chatroom at 10:30 am EST. “But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy” (1 Peter 1:15-16). Many are unfamiliar with the... >Read More

Tags: Christmas, compassion, eggnog, gentleness, holiday, holiness, holy, Holy Day, humility, kindness, patience, pure and sinless, sacredness, Suzanne Benner, tinsel

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Is your life a mess right now? Are you discouraged? Would you like someone to pray for you? “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness… For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith…” (2 Peter 1:3... >Read More

Tags: chaos, comfort, contribution, debilitating, Family, God, hardship, holiday, mess, physical handicap, re-make, sacrificial, television, united states

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Has your world shattered and left you with no hope for your marriage? "May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace, as you trust in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13). When my daughter was four we had an opportunity to live in England for... >Read More

Tags: Christmas, Christmas eve, england, germany, holiday, home, hope, peace, reservation, trip, weary

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