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1. 9 Faith-Filled Declarations to Stand Mightily in Turbulent Times

It's that time of year again—our office Christmas tree is decorated and Thanksgiving Day feasts are upon us. There's something special about the holidays. As the nation takes time to intentionally refle ...

Created on 28 November 2016

2. 16 Things I'm Thankful for in 2016

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday when we pause to thank God for our blessings. This year I'm sharing 16 things for which I'm thankful in 2016. We take too many things for granted. I've found the act ...

Created on 23 November 2016

3. The Secret to Eternal Thanksgiving

... of sincere praise and appreciativeness will frame your life in a beautiful and miraculous way. Gratitude will erase days of pain and create days of blessing. Thanksgiving will enlarge the small places ...

Created on 28 November 2016

4. 10 Spectacular Reasons to Be Grateful for Your Intimacy With Holy Spirit

"When can we start listening to Christmas music?" a student asked. "After Thanksgiving and not a day before!" I barked. (Wow, don't ask the teacher that question again.) No holiday jumping in this hou ...

Created on 25 November 2016

5. Read This and You'll Never Complain About America Again

... the right to pursue our dreams. We have so much be grateful for on this Thanksgiving holiday. Yes, we have our "First-world problems"—and we've griped a lot during the recent presidential campaign abo ...

Created on 23 November 2016

6. The Simple Habit That Could Make You More Thankful

When people make a list of things that they are thankful for, there are normal things that hit the list. If I sit down and just start writing a list, I will write: My relationship with God, my family, ...

Created on 22 November 2016

7. Use Holy Spirit's Unbeatable Weapon to Vanquish Holiday Greed

... re away where they belong. Now we can talk about the expectation of giving. I know some families who collect items during Thanksgiving week to give away to shelters and other charities. This makes room  ...

Created on 22 November 2016

8. The Real Reason We Give Thanks

As Thanksgiving is upon us, I have been reflecting upon the topic of giving thanks and have been overwhelmed with gratitude for all that the Lord has done through the years. I have been reminded of the ...

Created on 22 November 2016

9. 3 Enduring Lessons From Paul for When Your Prayer Life Goes Dry

... o God in prayer. It can be easy to focus on all the things that aren't going well and jump right into prayer, asking God, "Please, just fix it." Starting with thanksgiving takes our eyes off our proble ...

Created on 18 November 2016

10. The Power of the Eucharistia

... o joy ... the power of the eucharistia." Seek today not to increase what you have, but to increase your thanks for what you have. Give thanks in all things. The greater your thanksgiving, the greater wil ...

Created on 20 November 2016

11. Men, 'Meat Up' This Thanksgiving With the True Intent of the Holiday

... t a matter of survival. Holidays can be so much more. Allow me to tweak your perspective this year, starting with T-Day. Typically, we go into Thanksgiving with hunger in mind, an appetite for turkey, stuff ...

Created on 08 November 2016

12. Standing Strong When Satan Tries to Crush You

There are days, and we all have them, when we wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Days when we just don't feel thankful. Worse than that, we don't even see what we should be thankful for! When I Don't ...

Created on 28 October 2016

13. Defeat Chest-Crushing Fear With These Powerful Declarations

There is no two ways about it. I've become an anxious woman again. I struggled with this years ago, and here I am again—fearful, concerned, worried and anxious. It's a chest-crushing fear. I wake up in ...

Created on 17 October 2016

14. Helping Your Child Grow in Spirit-Led Intercession

... ion, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. These are big words for my 5-year-old daughter, twin 8-year-olds, and 11-year-old son. I asked God to help me teach them to pray in a way that would go deeper than  ...

Created on 26 September 2016

15. 2 Reasons You May Want to Change the Way You Pray

There's something powerful about relishing the enough-ness of where you are and what you have right now. It's more than gratitude, although that is important. Some call it the abundance mindset, or the ...

Created on 15 September 2016

16. 9 Eye-Opening Scriptures to Set You on the Path of God's Will

So many times we want God to reveal Himself to us. We question if He is real. And if we do believe in Him, we expect Him to really put Himself on display in big ways. What I've discovered in the 27 years ...

Created on 18 August 2016

17. How Lincoln Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday

Thanksgiving is the great American holiday that people of all religions embrace as their own. It is a tradition that hearkens back, of course, to the early Puritan fathers who thanked God for helping them ...

Created on 25 November 2015

18. When You Don't Feel Especially Thankful

We're in a season of giving thanks. Thanksgiving Day is set aside for giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest of the year before. Yuletide joy over the birth of Christ follows. But what if it doesn' ...

Created on 26 November 2015

19. 10 Tips for Having a Peaceful Holiday With Your Crazy Family

If you are hosting a large group of family members at your home this Thanksgiving or Christmas, you want it to be a special and memorable holiday. Unfortunately, these annual gatherings can often bring ...

Created on 26 November 2015

20. Fitness and Thanksgiving: Declarations of Thanks for the Works of Art We Live In

Thanksgiving, as the name makes clear, is a day to reflect on the blessings we're most thankful for. For the Pilgrims back in 1621, they gave thanks for an abundant harvest. Over 100 years later, Georg ...

Created on 25 November 2015