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Too often, we suspect that great riches hide behind all those closed doors; we imagine that God is withholding the best. But that's not who God is.

Lamont Thomas spent years fostering children - 30 kids over 15 years to be exact!  But when the last foster moved out of the house, Lamont could not end it there.  So even after he decided to stop fostering, he still wanted to help others - so he made an amazing change!

We hear a lot about effective ways to deal with stress.  Sometimes the best way to deal with stress is to avoid it altogether. 

Whatever your major stresses are, here are specific ways to remove them in your own life. 

What do you do when you feel like you are falling into a marriage rut? Start by engaging in conversation. Here are 10 questions you can ask to get you started...

How Near is God to Me...? 
In the mundane, in the insane, in the horrific, in my unbridled pride, in all the ups and downs that this life can bring....how NEAR is God to me?

People are understandably conscious about the foods they’re eating and where they come from. This has seen the rise of whole, clean and natural foods, and in the last couple years, the trend has even moved into pet foods.
These tips can help your whole family lead a more healthy life.

If you’re feeling uneasy about the days ahead, please know you’re not alone. 

Here are 7 things to do when the fear clouds your future...

“Am I willing to serve, sacrifice for, and forgive the person I’m with...until death do us part?”

Tori Keller received terrible news during her pregnancy, learning 3 of her children hadn’t made it. But the brave mom chose to carry her stillborn babies to full term in order to save one!

Have you ever felt like an exile in your own church? COVID has only served to make that feeling worse. 

Here's how one woman reassessed her community and found friendship.

Confess - who here is addicted to Social media?  It makes us glued to our phones for a good part of the day, creates negative affects on our relationships, makes us less productive, and it can give us a skewed perception of what reality is. 

What can we do to make sure that our lives don’t get consumed with social media?  Here is an easy 4 step social media fast to free your soul...

Bells will soon be ringing, and parents may experience déjá vu for the first several weeks of school. That’s because the early part of each new school year is commonly spent reversing the effect of “summer brain drain” – when kids lose skills they mastered the previous year.

How can a proper diet help reverse this trend?

Parkview Mennonite Church in Hillsboro, Kansas decided to put works with their faith and made a wonderfully generous donation to a local elementary school, opting to purchase academic supplies for every single student due to attend! 

See what happened when this local church body decided to be a blessing to their whole community...!

Whether you’re homeschooling, sending your kids to public school or private school, or even off to college, there’s reason to pray!  

Here are five prayers to pray this Back-to-School season. 

Of all the apps in recent years, perhaps the one that has received the most debate on whether it should be used is TikTok. TikTok not only has an addictive, habit-forming quality but is also an app where most anything goes.

This begs the question for parents, should you let your kid use TikTok?

There are a lot of myths out there when it comes to our closeness with God:  “If you would just read your Bible more, go to church more, share your faith, then that'll bring you closer to God.” So I try doing all of those things—but that feeling of closeness with God still doesn't come. 

But then, I discovered where I'd gone wrong. 

How does your family feel about returning back to school this year?  Excited?  Worried?  

Consider these three tips to help your children (and yourself) manage emotions during the transition back to school.

Our culture seems to place a high value on the euphoria of young love and early romance, rarely taking into account the challenges that come as we advance through the decades together.

So what's a midlife married couple to do?

When Yakema Harris’ son suddenly stopped breathing, she didn’t know what to do. Thankfully, God put a guardian angel in her path!

I don’t know about you, but in the face of all the bad news in the headlines. In the face of all the hard things happening in the world I want to see God show up!