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1. 8 Signs of Toxic, Dream-Killing Friends

Toxic, dream-killing friends ... You may have them. But can you see them? Some friends are just absolutely toxic. When you can discern them, you can put some healthy distance between you and walk in God's ...

Created on 11 March 2021

2. How Community Influences and Encourages Accountability

The idea of accountability is not something for which most people love to volunteer. Some people are naturally accountable to feedback, listen earnestly and decipher how they can improve based on if the ...

Created on 12 February 2021

3. A God-Ordained Friendship Is Equipping Women to Rise to the Lord's Call ...

Faced with potential death if they are found out, women leaders of the underground church in Iran secretly gather to pray and proclaim, "Death before disobedience." These women would rather die than disobey ...

Created on 04 January 2021

4. 3 Life-Changing Keys to Self-Deliverance

I will never forget the day that God sent an angel to me in my prayer room, forging one of the most tangible and powerful ways I have ever experienced. My wife and I were in itinerant ministry at the time, ...

Created on 07 December 2020

5. Does Your Heart Long for Meaningful Community?

If I were to ask you for your thoughts on the purpose of the word "community," what would you say? Is it more about the people or the place? Is it about what is offered or what you can give? Maybe it's ...

Created on 15 October 2020

6. Do You Embody These 5 Characteristics of a Godly Friend?

In an age where physical space in friendships is often replaced with online interaction, building solid friendships can be difficult. And maintaining those relationships once established is even more so. ...

Created on 20 July 2020

7. In This Time of Social Distancing, Call Your Friends

I have a friend in Virginia—I'll call him "Kevin"—who is struggling with depression. He lost his job because his company isn't an "essential" business. A part-time pastor, Kevin had big dreams about growing ...

Created on 14 April 2020

8. How a Friend's Simple Invitation Led to God's Miraculous Intervention in This Woman's Life

When she was at the lowest of low points, God broke into Dr. Kim Maas' life. And not a moment too soon. Although raised in church, she had spent many years walking away from Him, the ordained minister ...

Created on 21 February 2020

9. 3 Powerful Ways You Can Give Others the Gift of Your Unhurried Presence This Christmas

... g about the angelic visitations they had both experienced. Undistracted by cellphones and computers, they likely spent long hours in deep conversation. What a beautiful example of deep friendship and fellowshi ...

Created on 09 December 2019

10. Why the Cure for Your Loneliness Isn't as Impossible as You Think

...  result from increasing loneliness. Spend six minutes with Larry Tomczak as he diagnoses the problem and presents you with a solution so you can enjoy an abundant life and long-lasting friendships. Watc ...

Created on 30 October 2019

11. 6 Types of Christian Friends You Don't Want to Be

It's a normal Friday night. Friends are eating together and hanging out. They are all believers and a close-knit group. They do a lot of life together. It's a potluck kind of night. They are bringing hot ...

Created on 25 October 2019

12. Remembering George Clouse, Who Encouraged Me to Start 'Charisma'

Today I'm remembering my friend and mentor George Clouse, a World War II vet, who died July 21 at age 93. He was a great, godly man who impacted many—especially me. That's because in 1974, I told him about ...

Created on 25 July 2019

13. God Wants to Put Jonathans in Your Life

... still others have closed their hearts entirely to avoid being hurt. It's as if we forgot how to have true friends. I've met pastors who've told me they just can't risk building friendships. So they live in  ...

Created on 19 June 2019

14. Has the Church Forgotten God's Design for Friendship? ...

Friendship is not an obsolete sentiment. It is still necessary to our life in its largest sense. There is possible today, as ever, a generous friendship that forgets self. Christ, who always took the highest ...

Created on 18 June 2019

15. How to Be a Trustworthy Friend in a Culture of Distrust

... al craving for food, but what often goes unseen is the greater hunger for friendship and a real relationship. They long for someone they can talk to and be a friend. Even in the overcrowded global refu ...

Created on 29 May 2019

16. Beware of These Fake Friends Who Lead You Astray

Both Proverbs 11:14 and 15:22 talk about a multitude of counselors providing safety as we plan our lives. Be careful with casual friends as your counselors. Nine times out of ten, my "friends" tell me ...

Created on 22 May 2019

17. Rich Wilkerson: What God Taught Me About Honor Through the PTL Debacle

... been leading the ministry for six months, Sam's legal woes were resolved, so Robyn and I returned the leadership to him and continued doing what we had been called to do before, but we maintained our frie ...

Created on 21 May 2019

18. The Bold, Brave Friend You Need When You're Confused About What to Do

Never make friends with anyone who is braver than you are. I remember our "little yellow house," as we call it now. I had prayed for nothing more than big windows, and the living room had three picture ...

Created on 06 February 2019

19. Fumigate Toxic Friends From Your Life

... ents just to follow her friend. She ignored her mother and father's words of caution but, now in retrospect, she realizes how the friendship trained her to be dangerously complaisant. "Not until many yea ...

Created on 21 November 2018

20. How to Tell if Your Friendship Has Turned Toxic ...

... all emotional energy. But sometimes we have toxic friendships, and we're not even aware they are toxic. But slowly over time, it takes its toll. We grow insecure and critical ... we sometimes even tur ...

Created on 30 August 2018