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The Best Way to Do Your Christmas Cleaning
Why it happened right then, when she turned toward the stack of dishes on the counters, the squash peeling and apple cores and crusted pots, she had no idea. No idea why it came right then, in the...
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Why Thinking About Losing – Is Really How You Win
In the middle of a stiff winter wind, she asks to go to the beach. That’s where she says she wants to celebrate the turning of her calendar year. To stand on the frozen snow and turn her face directly...
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Daring Greatly to Live Fully — Right Where You Are
When Thursday gets caught in your teeth like a piece of spinach, the crazy thing is you could dare to laugh — it gets things unstuck. You know how it goes — Laugh or die. A joyful heart is good...
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The Truth You’ve Got to Know after Easter
That first call was from the hospital. Right about the cracking dawn on Resurrection Sunday, her whispering on the other end of the line. Two weeks so far. Not that we all aren’t counting or anything....
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{The Courage to Leave a Legacy} Week 4: Four Ways to Be a Better Friend
Our words matter, yeah? So how can we use them to leave a legacy? Scripture calls us to share what God has done in our lives with the next generation, to tell the stories of God’s mighty acts {Psalm...
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When You Feel Like You Don’t Really Belong
Someone has to be that Mother. That mother who drives a full 3 hours to the border with a packed mini-van and anxious kids and creeps through a 20-minute traffic backup under the hot beating sun —...
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Why We Really Need to Be Done with Living Safe: Being a Dangerous Disciple of...
My Gran, she’s taking slow walks outside the hospital now. Her heart’s growing stronger, beating certain. I wash down the cupboards in the kitchen. I pray for Gran’s heart attack recovery, for each...
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What Every Hard Week Ahead of You Needs
Sometimes, even right before it really begins, you’ve got a feeling how the week’s going to go. I look in the mirror early on a Tuesday morning, the bedhead looking more like a monsterhead, and I look...
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How to Have the Best Equation for a Really Good Week, a Good Life
The hour drive it takes to get to the lake on a Sunday afternoon, I think of the Sunday morning sermon. The preacher was preaching pure gospel, how to be born again. Twenty-five years he’s been...
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{Better Together} Week 3: There’s No Such Thing as Other People’s Children
Since we’ve been given the biblical mandate that we all belong to each other {Romans 12:5, NLT}, this fall at (in)courage we wanted to spend some deliberate time together unpacking what that means. To...
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A Story: How One Unlikely Man Stopped the Stealing of Thanksgiving
So there this Farmer. Yeah, he could have been an electrician, a mechanic, a vet — and a story like this could have easily been about a salesman, a mother, a nurse, a teacher, a trucker because we’re...
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What Jesus Said Is a Life-Changer: The Sozo Habit
I sit at the prayer bench before my bedroom window. Outside, our boys roll millions of flakes into a snow fort. I read the passage in the Bible open in front of me, one I remember from the musty...
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Why You Really Matter: An Anthem for Women
The gorgeous woman that had stood up there on stage with the microphone? Yeah, she hikes up the side of her shirt to show the whole crowd of us how her white thigh spills thick over the elasticized...
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Recommended Reads: Be the Gift
There are only so many full orbits around the sun, and who makes time to lie in bed and listen to rain thrumming on roofs or to take someone for strawberry ice cream sundaes and linger down at the...
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We have a special treat today. This is an excerpt straight from the not-yet-available (in)courage Devotional Bible! We’re thrilled to share Ann Voskamp’s devotion based on Psalm 118 — just one of more...
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Becoming the Gift the World Needs — and You Need
Maybe — maybe there’s a Comforter who holds us gently in our brokenness . . . which is very different from a comfort zone that’s a deathtrap to break us. And the art of really living may just involve...
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