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20 Christmas Bible Verses That Will Recenter Your Heart {PLUS A Christmas Prayer}
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20 Christmas Bible Verses That Will Recenter Your Heart {PLUS A Christmas Prayer}

Keeping Christmas Bible verses on repeat is a way to recenter your mind, heart, and soul on what is important and what gives meaning to this special holiday. We can’t completely avoid all the hustle and bustle since there is much to accomplish in a limited amount of time. But we can find peace in…

13 Bible Verses About Gratitude That Will Change Your Heart
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13 Bible Verses About Gratitude That Will Change Your Heart

Bible verses about gratitude fill the pages of the Bible. It wasn’t a theme God went light on. Therefore, it signifies gratitude is something crucial to our faith walk and to living victoriously. Gratitude is a powerful weapon against defeat as are the very Bible verses about gratitude. Gratitude also breathes life into the characteristics…

Getting Unstuck: Letting Go of the Past and Choosing to Live Again
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Getting Unstuck: Letting Go of the Past and Choosing to Live Again

I love music. It is food for my soul – especially during our family’s many basketball road trips. Each of us has our personal favorites, and these days the teenagers are more opinionated than ever, but generally we tend to listen to a little of almost everything. But there is one thing we all agree on….

The Profound Importance of Christmas on Shaping Your True Identity
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The Profound Importance of Christmas on Shaping Your True Identity

What is it about the importance of Christmas and how I embrace myself? A Christmas Identity? From that baby in a manger to the cross on which He died and rose again, and still beyond. It matters, friends. It matters a lot. And today I am honored to bring you someone who has greatly blessed…

Who Could Use a Little Bit of Gratitude? Check Out this Roundup of Resources! Free Email Series
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Who Could Use a Little Bit of Gratitude? Check Out this Roundup of Resources! Free Email Series

Grumpiness has a way of seeping into our everyday moments, filling them with sludge and grime. … and a totally bad attitude. It’s so easy, isn’t it? Because somehow the stuff that isn’t right in our lives catches our eye so much quicker and stronger than the stuff that is right. I feel the tired….

On Living Single, the Crazy Things People Say, and God’s Beautiful Plan
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On Living Single, the Crazy Things People Say, and God’s Beautiful Plan

I’m not sure how long ago it was when I first ran across Yvonne’s website. I remember the immediate draw to her real, raw, and humorous doses of encouragement.  She is a single woman, as well as a Relationship and Dating Coach, writing about living single as a Christian. She isn’t afraid of touchy subjects…