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Why making disciples is the most important thing you should be doing now
Why making disciples is the most important thing you should be doing now

Discipleship is the one thing that remains non-negotiable in God's kingdom. It's simple, doable by all and impactful in many ways.

How much time do I really need to spend with God daily?
How much time do I really need to spend with God daily?

There is much value to setting a time where you are alone with God and where you can meditate on His word, but when it comes to spending time with the Lord, it's obvious that the answer should be "every minute of your life."

Why training children \'in the way they should go\' also requires that we parents train ourselves
Why training children 'in the way they should go' also requires that we parents train ourselves

There are so many other things that matter more than maintaining a list full of laws to keep. So if training up kids is not all about rules and regulations then what else is it about?

Why Does God Allow Depression?
Why Does God Allow Depression?

Christian Today grilled Amy Orr-Ewing ahead of Reboot where a thousand teenagers will gather in Westminster on Saturday for an apologetics conference.

Are you abusing God\'s grace?  Why it should always lead us to say no to sin instead of making compromises
Are you abusing God's grace? Why it should always lead us to say no to sin instead of making compromises

Some Christians think of God's grace as a feel-good, cry-in-the-middle-of-worship, experience-centered feeling and nothing more.

Overcoming disobedience: How our will needs to be restored in Christ just as much as our hearts and minds
Overcoming disobedience: How our will needs to be restored in Christ just as much as our hearts and minds

We hear a lot about the heart and mind and how God restores them but rarely do we talk about the will and how God moulds it. What is the will and how does God restore it when it is broken?

4 reasons you should make time for daily devotions if you aren't already
4 reasons you should make time for daily devotions if you aren't already

Here are just four of the many practical benefits that daily devotions can bring to anyone who wholeheartedly commits to them.

When God\'s response to your prayers is \'wait\'
When God's response to your prayers is 'wait'

When God tells us to "wait," it's not like when a telephone operator puts you on hold indefinitely. He's actually trying to communicate something important to us. Here are three things that God is actually saying when He tells us to wait.

What we can learn from Hannah, the mother of Samuel, on dealing with depression
What we can learn from Hannah, the mother of Samuel, on dealing with depression

So many people have this wrong notion that depression shuts us out from God's presence - that only "happy" people can pray, worship and experience God.

Here\'s how \'taking every thought captive into the obedience of Christ\' looks like
Here's how 'taking every thought captive into the obedience of Christ' looks like

Whatever Jesus has said and done passes through the filter and is allowed into our minds. But all that is not founded in Him is left in the filter after sifting, and then thrown away as trash.

How bad experiences can be used as springboards to success
How bad experiences can be used as springboards to success

All of us go through bad experiences every now and then. Losses, failures, injustice and defeat — these bad experiences can either be the reason for us to stay down and stuck in the mud, or the reason for us to rise up and be enabled to pull others out of the clay as well.

Quiet time: Learning the art of being still and knowing that He is God
Quiet time: Learning the art of being still and knowing that He is God

Remember, it's called a 'quiet time' because we quiet ourselves so that we could listen to God.

Finding focus: Four ideas for the desperately distracted
Finding focus: Four ideas for the desperately distracted

The digital world can leave many of us overwhelmed by distraction, and it's not good for us. What do we do about that?

In good times and bad, why Psalm 23 will see us through
In good times and bad, why Psalm 23 will see us through

The reason Psalm 23 has remained so popular and profound for believers around the world throughout the ages is that it doesn't just work in one given situation. It works in any given situation.

The problem behind bringing people to church
The problem behind bringing people to church

Somewhere along the line we have forgotten that the service, the place, the preaching is not the church. The people are the church and we don't necessarily have to bring people to the church. We can bring the church to them.

Faith in the hard times: What it means to be \'struck down, but not destroyed\'
Faith in the hard times: What it means to be 'struck down, but not destroyed'

Have you ever felt like such a failure that any direction you'd turn you'd still feel trapped? Guess what? It's not as bad as it looks.