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How to Create an Intimate Christmas: A different kind of Christmas list

I have this peculiar reaction on the morning after Halloween: nostalgia mixed with dread. It’s the sense that while I’m already starting to plan for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I’ll miss out on something fundamental, something sacred. FOMO, nutcracker style. This year I pulled out my sprig of holly and decided to spear that negative Nancy

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Feel inadequate as a Christian? Pull up a seat at your Father’s table…

I thought life was a dance, but I was just twirling on thin ice. People thought I was a strong Christian, and I agreed. Appearances can be deceiving, can’t they? The evidence pointed toward a woman who had it together: A woman who planned a mission trip to Ghana with her mom, taught Sunday School,

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Sunday Sanity Saver: How to make Sunday your best day of the week. Tips on getting it all done so you can rest, rejoice, and reconnect on the Lord's Day. TheArtofContentment.com

How to make Sunday your best day of the week: Rest, Rejoice & Reconnect

My knuckles strangled the steering wheel as I hurtled toward Safeway on a Sunday afternoon. I didn’t have the ingredients to make dinner, and I was resentful of being in the kitchen since I’d already made breakfast and lunch for my family. And that was after several hours of wrangling two energetic young boys, scrambling

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