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On the drive home after service, you stare out the car window, unable to find words. You sang the hymns, you heard the sermon. So why does this emptiness linger?The longer we hold onto our faith, the more certain things become strangely unfamiliar. Prayer can start to feel like a...
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There's a feeling most of us know but rarely say out loud: I am not enough. Not at work. Not in relationships. Maybe not even as a person. You push through it, cover it with productivity or politeness — but late at night, the feeling comes back. Quiet. Certain. Familiar.And...
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He Went Looking for Evidence Against God. He Found the Opposite.He wasn't looking for God. He was looking for a way to prove his wife wrong.It was 1980, and Leslie Strobel had started going to church. Her husband — a legal editor at the Chicago Tribune, Yale-trained, sharp as a...
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Be honest with yourself for a moment.When did you last open your Bible — not out of obligation, not right before a church meeting — but because you wanted to? When did you last sit in silence long enough to actually hear something other than your own to-do list? If...
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Have you ever finished a full day — emails answered, meetings attended, errands done — and felt, not satisfied, but hollowed out?I have. More times than I'd like to admit. And for a long time, I told myself it was the season. A busy season. It would pass. But seasons...
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Why authority doesn't equal influence — and what doesHave you ever walked out of a meeting where you held the title, ran the agenda, and said all the right things — and somehow, nothing moved?The report got nodded at. The decision got deferred. The team went back to their desks...
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You've done something no one saw. No consequences. No witnesses.And you still felt guilty.Or the opposite — you watched someone get away with something genuinely unfair, and something in you said that's wrong. Not just I don't like it. Not just that's illegal. Wrong. As in, it shouldn't have happened....
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Have you ever laid awake at 3 a.m., running through the same anxious loop you've already run a hundred times?Maybe it's your finances. Your health. A relationship that feels like it's slowly unraveling. A future that won't stop feeling uncertain.You tell yourself to calm down. fvYou breathe. You scroll. You...
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Rethinking Power, Leadership, and the Heart of David."What do you do when the person you trusted most starts aiming a spear at your heart?"We’ve all been there. Maybe it’s not a physical weapon, but you’ve felt the sting. The jealous boss who undermines your work. The mentor who turns cold...
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Have you ever sat in a church pew and felt it? That quiet, nagging thought: “I believe… I think. But if someone actually asked me to explain why, I’m not sure I could.”Most of us grew up around these walls. We know the rhythm of the liturgy; we can sing...
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A Swiss physician spent 40 years in quiet rooms, listening to thousands of people who felt they were failing at life. What he discovered changed everything.Does this sound familiar?There's a woman — call her Margaret — who is 43 years old. From the outside, her life looks fine. Good job....
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Faith is Not the Absence of Doubt: A Logical Journey for the SkepticMaybe you've been there.Someone brings up God, and you quietly change the subject. You're sitting in a conversation about faith, and something in you goes a little stiff — not angry, just… uncertain. Or maybe you used to...
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We have all felt it—that specific, hollow ache that follows a reluctant "yes."It usually happens with the people we love most. It’s the family dinner you attended out of sheer obligation while your own spirit was fraying. It’s the friend whose crisis always becomes your midnight marathon, leaving you depleted...
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Thoughts on Heal Your Hurting MindWhen Faith Isn’t Enough to Stop the PainWe usually turn to Christian books for a quick dose of encouragement—something light, uplifting, and safe. But Heal Your Hurting Mind hits differently. It’s not interested in giving you a pat on the back; it’s interested in being...
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