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3 Ways to Fight for Your Marriage When You’re Tempted to Throw in the Towel

"People were placing bets at our wedding. Nobody thought we had a chance."

How to Deal With a Lying Husband and Get a Better Marriage

"I can still remember vividly the look on my husband’s face as regretful tears fell and he lay broken before me."

One Year After “I Do,” Husband Realizes Why Marriage Isn’t for Him

They met when they were 15 and were best friends for 10 years—but after being married just 1 year, the truth hit him HARD.

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The Loneliness of Being a Millennial in Church

'"Many people expect a pastor like me—a 29-year-old with enough piercings and tattoos to make them think I might have an “in” with my peers but not enough to totally freak them out—to know how to fix it, or even to be a draw.'

3 Things to Keep You Busy While Your Pastor is Preaching

"There’s a long-held myth that the only one doing anything that matters during a sermon is the preacher. Wrong. Dead wrong."

Have We Lost Our Minds?

"It’s what we emphasize, as leaders, as Christians, as the Church: speed, efficiency, acting. These are not bad qualities in and of themselves, but solely emphasized they dry up the human spirit and turn us into stressed-out versions of our intended selves."

“They Killed Each Other”…What Happened to the Church?

"I took a closer look around me and noticed we stood among the dead. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of the dead... the stench hit me. Vultures descended. And as the wind kicked up, my eyes watered from the smell."

Why the Church Doesn’t Need Any More Starbucks

"At 7:24 the doctors declared him dead. And as I lay next to my children at night listening to my daughter sob uncontrollably because she misses her dad so much, I am not thinking about the trendiness of a church."

59 Percent of Millennials Raised in a Church Have Dropped Out—And They’re Trying to Tell Us Why

Millennials are leaving the church: Only 4 percent of the Millennial Generation are Bible-Based Believers. This author goes deep to explain why.

Why My Most Memorable Easter Was the One I Didn’t Celebrate at All

"In the midst of my disappointment over missing Resurrection Sunday services, I felt the Lord very clearly and strongly speak to my heart. I can hear it just as clear in my memory now..."

Church Isn’t for You

"Time is a valuable commodity. More than anything else, today’s society has become defined by how we spend our time."