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  • Honesty Leads to a Good Life. It’s Time to Stop Running from It.  1

    Honesty Leads to a Good Life. It’s Time to Stop Running from It. 

    Nine promises from the Bible about the healing power of honesty

  • Why Failure Shouldn’t Scare You  2

    Why Failure Shouldn’t Scare You 

    Inspiring lessons from five successful people in the Bible.

  • How Open Hearts Lead to Spiritual Breakthroughs  3

    How Open Hearts Lead to Spiritual Breakthroughs 

    Four steps you can take to let God transform you from the inside out.

  • Developing the Faith to Be Yourself  4

    Developing the Faith to Be Yourself 

    It’s important to constantly work at having the faith to be ourselves.

  • Why Do I Get So Defensive? 5

    Why Do I Get So Defensive?

    Trusting God helps me lower my defenses and listen to him as he helps me become the person I’m meant to be.

  • You Matter: Understanding the Overwhelming, Never-Ending, Reckless Love of God 6

    You Matter: Understanding the Overwhelming, Never-Ending, Reckless Love of God

    The Bible says that the love of Christ makes us “complete” and gives us a full life along with the power that comes from God. 

  • Silencing the Crowd: Getting Past Our Preoccupation with People to Find Jesus  7

    Silencing the Crowd: Getting Past Our Preoccupation with People to Find Jesus 

    Let’s look at how we can calm our people-pleasing, quiet our people-focus, and silence our drive to rely on ourselves so we can find Jesus’ purpose for our lives. 

  • Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: God Is Real When We Are Real 8

    Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: God Is Real When We Are Real

    Because God has unlimited mercy, we can feel confident that anything we bring up to him will be met with compassion, understanding, and forgiveness.

  • In a World Full of Darkness, Here’s How You Can Be the Light 9

    In a World Full of Darkness, Here’s How You Can Be the Light

    But how do we become a light that shines brightly before others? The first step is making sure we choose not to live in darkness ourselves.

  • Parable of the Two Sons: God Wants the Real You 10

    Parable of the Two Sons: God Wants the Real You

    God wants honesty and closeness; he doesn’t just want to hear the right answers. 

  • Don't be afraid of the truth

    Don’t Be Afraid of the Truth

    How I learned that truth is my friend, not my enemy.

  • Get to Know God By Getting to Know Yourself 11

    Get to Know God By Getting to Know Yourself

    Growing more aware of ourselves — the good, the bad, and the ugly — increases the intimacy in our relationship with God and others