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A couple years ago, I was standing in a long line to get into a Christmas concert in Nashville, Tennessee, when something crazy happened: I was invited to have lunch the next day with some of the artists performing that night. You’ve probably never heard of them, but to me,...

The inception of the holiday season here in the U.S. is signaled not by the first snap of autumn chill or falling leaves but by the decor section of your nearest big box store. Summer’s grip has barely loosened before the ubiquitous marketing machinery sets into motion advertisements, jingles, scents,...

Mirriam is a young woman in Zambia whose life has been transformed in a significant way because of the support of people like you. Her story is amazing. She tried everything she could think of—clinic visits, hospital appointments, and even local witch doctors. But nothing worked Mirriam had been suffering...

Sometimes we’re tempted to think that miracles don’t happen today, but I have to tell you about a modern miracle. A little girl named Mulonda was plagued by forces of evil, but she has been set free—in no small part due to the compassionate giving of people like you. Here’s...

“Does God really burn people forever if they don’t get baptized?!” Jeremy’s teenage daughter Darby asked as she walked into the room. She showed him the TikTok video she’d stumbled upon. The conversation set off a series of events that led Jeremy and his family, who’d left the church years...

If you could, instantly, have any book of the Bible memorized, which one would it be? I’ve asked this question to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people over the years. In fact, I asked several friends just recently while enjoying a lovely Sunday afternoon at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The most common...

We’ve just had our ARISE discipleship program graduation, and I have to tell you about one student named Shady, on whom you’ve had a tremendous spiritual impact because of your generous financial support. Though she always felt deeply loved by both her parents, Shady’s childhood was marred by her father’s...

When was the last time you cried because you realized the depth of God’s love for you? Do you remember? I have to share with you a message our team recently received because of your generous support. Let me explain first, though. In case you haven’t heard, one of the...

Once I posted a picture of a meal I made on social media. Somebody who saw it asked me, “Don’t you have more important things to do with your time?” More important than delighting my eyes with colorful fresh produce from the Earth? More important than decompressing from the stresses...

Eric Mason (@pastoremase), a prominent Christian preacher and author, recently made a reel on Instagram in which he asserts that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a cult. The first and primary reason he offers to support this claim is that Adventists generally hold that Christ is Michael the Archangel. From...

When I was a kid, there were only two things I knew with absolute certainty: pain and love. Suffering defined my existence. Horrors haunted our little home—the horrors of rage and drug abuse and, worst of all, the horror of violence regularly inflicted upon my mother. But, then, in the...

I had a couple of big fears as a kid: 1) boa constrictors and 2) quicksand. As I’ve gotten older, though, I’ve happily realized that neither quicksand nor boa constrictors are the everyday struggles of adulthood that I thought they’d be (bills are much worse). When I was nine, I...