Where do you go when your father takes his anger out on you and your family? One little girl found the answer at a young age and, as an adult, sees God’s healing hand in it all.
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Message to the Heart
It’s hard to watch our children and grandchildren go through trouble, and we feel so powerless to help them. One woman used prayer to bring a family trial to God, and God had His own way of responding.
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Forget Not
When one woman’s husband suffered a serious injury because of a fall, it threatened them with financial ruin. Through the act of remembering God’s goodness, this couple gained much more than financial answers to prayer.
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Defeating Abuse
Not all fathers are easy to honor — on Father’s Day or any other day. One man discovered his desire to punish his father for his abusive behavior didn’t line up with Jesus’ desire for him to forgive.
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Embracing the Empty Nest
You have children, raise them, love them, and prepare them to enter the real world. Easier said than done, according to one mom. Despite knowing these truths, she struggled with the absence of her daughters and letting them make their own decisions. Just as they had a lot to learn about the world, so this mother had a lot to learn from God about the new place she had in their lives.
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Goin’ ta Jesus
The invitation from Jesus to “Let the little children come to Me” sounds simple, but it wasn’t for one woman whose childhood was marred by sexual abuse. As an adult, she learned how to be a child again in the way that God intended.
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After an Affair
Betrayal. Hurt. Anger. These and other emotions overwhelmed one woman when her husband broke their marriage vows. Thanks to God’s guidance and her obedience, this wife found the freedom of forgiveness and recommitment to love.
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Where does forgiveness begin and end? When the guilty ask for it? When the one betrayed says they forgive? Are the words enough? Here are some ways to solve deep-seated unforgiveness when you feel you can’t talk about it to anyone. Write a letter to the one who betrayed you, whether it’s a perpetrator of…
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God and My Money
A job can mean many things for a family, like financial security. But when a woman’s husband leaves an employer, the income from their small business doesn’t stretch far enough to cover the bills. That is, until the wife learns to depend on God to get them through.
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The Secret Son
Shame. Fear. Uncertainty. A teenage girl felt all of these, and more, when she became pregnant and was forced to give up her baby for adoption. Later in life, she found more than that baby, now a grown man. She found her Savior.
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