Book Review: Building Bridges by Julie Lowe
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Book Review: Building Bridges by Julie Lowe

Knowing how to approach children and teens in counseling can be a challenge. Learning to enter into their world and draw them out can sometimes feel impossible. But with Julie Lowe’s Building Bridges—a practical workbook of expressive activities to do with kids and teens in counseling—you will find the biblical tools you’re looking for.  Anyone who…

Book Review: Restore by Robert Cheong
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Book Review: Restore by Robert Cheong

What’s your story? Each of us has a unique one—a way of weaving together past experiences, relationships, and current joys and sorrows to make sense of our lives. But if we live our stories without looking to the master Storyteller, we get lost and confused. Changing deeply held patterns of living and loving happens as we find our place in…

Bible Study Review: Ephesians by Scotty Smith
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Bible Study Review: Ephesians by Scotty Smith

Am I loved? The central question of every human heart is answered with a resounding yes through this study of the Ephesians. Through an easily accessible, self-contained small group study each participant will grow in their understanding of the love of Christ, and the riches of his grace and how that love shapes every relationship…

Bible Study Review: Titus by Jeff Dodge
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Bible Study Review: Titus by Jeff Dodge

Can the truth really change how we live? And how do we know what is true in a world of so many falsehoods? In this timely study, Jeff Dodge explores how Christians are called to share the gospel message with the world—free of do-good, moralistic, try-harder religion, while also boldly calling those who believe to a gospel-centered, radical new life of love. …

Refreshing?
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Refreshing?

Last month I was able to visit a beach when the weather was less than ideal. The waters were choppy and the wind gusts weren’t romantic like you picture on a beach. It was the kind where my hair stood straight up and sand flew in my contacts. While there, I watched the lifeguards train….