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Four Things to Pray for Your Teen

What are your prayers for your teenager? Perhaps you pray for your teen’s GPA to improve? Or maybe you pray that they would make better friends? Or that they would get into a good college? Maybe you pray that your teen wouldn’t make any of the same mistakes you did? Or you simply pray that […]

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To the Mom Dealing with a Rebellious Heart

Join us in welcoming one of our newest contributors, Crystal Rommen, to For The Family. Today Crystal is encouraging us with three ways God responds to our child’s rebellious heart. ~Pat and Ruth Panic sets in as my three-year-old sprints out of sight. Despite repeated warnings, my son escapes at top speed through the grocery store. […]

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3 Ways to Find Certainty in Times of Financial Stress

Join us in welcoming one of our newest contributors, Shelby Turner, to For The Family. Today Shelby shares encouragement for finding security in God when walking through financial chaos. ~ Pat and Ruth One year ago today my husband suddenly and unexpectedly lost his job. What he thought would be just another day at work turned […]

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Three Ways to Prepare Your Heart for a Crisis

Join us in welcoming one of our newest contributors, April Cao, to For The Family. Today she’s encouraging us to be proactive in preparing ourselves spiritually before the inevitable crisis in our lives. ~Pat and Ruth I don’t gamble. I don’t play the lottery and I don’t test God to get my way. But that changed the day […]

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Two of the most important questions you can ask at the start of a new year

While goal-setting resources are numerous—and readily available this time of year—and while many are helpful in identifying goals and intentions, few have focused on two of the most important questions we can ask ourselves as followers of Jesus Christ.  Your typical goal-setting system goes through a range of exercises to help you evaluate your season […]

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