Get real encouragement to help you break free from loneliness and grief!

Everyone deals with loneliness and grief. But we want to help you overcome these challenges by sending you two helpful articles we’ve put together called Five Tips for Overcoming Loneliness and Five Truths to Help You Deal with Grief. These resources are our way to thank you for your donation below to help more seniors like Elnora embrace […]

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The reward of good accountability

“Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” -Galatians 6: 1-2 Former New York Yankee great Mickey Mantle […]

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How to stand firm in the face of pressure

“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” -1 Corinthians 15:58 Back in the early 1990s, it was no secret that President George H. W. Bush was not […]

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Let God lift you up!

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. -Hebrews 4:16     In one of Charles Schulz’s famous “Peanuts” cartoons, Lucy philosophizes about life as Charlie Brown listens woefully. “Charlie Brown,” she begins, “life is a lot […]

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How to lean on God in days of doubt

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. -Psalm 14:1 Pastor and author Ravi Zacharias shares a story from British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge about a conversation he had with Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin. She spent some […]

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You’ve been chosen for joy!

“Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy…” -1 Peter 1:8 The great Scottish theologian, William Barclay writes… “We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in […]

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Fostering inclusiveness in the Body of Christ

“Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.”  -Colossians 3:11 One Sunday morning in 1865, a black man entered a prominent and fashionable church in Richmond, Virginia. When Communion was served, he walked down the aisle and knelt at the […]

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The importance of getting quiet each day

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”  -Mark 6:31 Studies show noise affects human behavior. In one experiment carried out by psychologists, a student leaving a […]

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The world is watching

“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.” -Proverbs 10:9 After his message one Sunday, the pastor of a church in London hopped on the trolley to head back home. He paid his fare, and the trolley driver gave him too much change. “It’s wonderful how God provides,” […]

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Finding God’s favor through perseverance

“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” -Philippians 3:14 Psychologist Martin Segilman of the University of Pennsylvania advised the MetLife insurance company to hire a special group of job applicants who, although they had failed a normal aptitude test, tested high on […]

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