Are you facing a hard season today? Do you wonder where God is? Let us pray for you. I have questions for God, do you?  Here are some of mine . . .  God, did you see…when a broken-hearted couple lost their three year old son to cancer and just 10 short years later were sitting in that same funeral home... >Read More

Tags: comfort, death, devo, Devotional, Health Issues, loss, pain, trials, verses, Women

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Are you struggling with memories of loss in your life? Let us pray for you. “Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen nor let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.” (Deuteronomy 4:9) This... >Read More

Tags: Deuteronomy 4:9, Devotional, freedom, gail rodgers, God, pain, remember, sacrifice, soldier, Women

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Do you want to go back to the basics of your faith? Try our study Knowing Jesus Personally. “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Suffering is something we all experience at some point in our lives. We can... >Read More

Tags: Bev Yellowley, Bible, confessed, emotional, forgiven, God, heaven, mental, pain, poor choices, suffering

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Learn contentment in all situations by studying God’s provision: Take our Contentment with God’s Provision interactive online study. “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they” (Matthew 6:26)? I had never before embraced...... >Read More

Tags: abandoned, brain injury, broken back, coma, Defeat, helplessnes, hospital, ICU, loaves and fishes, pain, Sally Rowland, stranger, traumatic

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How can a person cope with long-term pain? Get help from someone with personal experience in the article “When Pain Persists” “Does the clay say to the potter, “What are you making” (Isaiah 45:9)? German poet Rainer Maria Rike said in a letter, “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions...... >Read More

Tags: miserable, pain, painful, patience, potter, Rainer Maria Rike, Russell Kelfer, Sarah Fleischman, struggles, wait

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As "Dr. Muriel" I have received many letters from teens and twenties who are addicted to cutting or self-harm. This epidemic has stunned me! Through research I learned that 13, 000 to 30, 000 girls and women use this as a way of coping. Even Princess Diana of England turned to cutting as a way to cope. When I started... >Read More

Tags: addiction, attitude problems, challenges & conflict, cutting, Dr. Muriel Larson, emotions, feelings, hardship & suffering, Life Issues, pain, parenting essentials, relief, resolving conflict, Self, self-harm, sexual problems, teenagers, teens

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Learn how to learn from your mistakes. Try our life lesson “Built by Brokenness” "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, you will find rest for your souls” (Jeremiah 6:16). “Elizabeth, you disobeyed me by riding your Hot Wheels in the middle of the street. I’m... >Read More

Tags: ask, Big Wheels, crossroads, discipline, disobeyed, Elizabeth Withers, faith, Hot Wheels, look, pain, spank

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