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  • Lessons from 1 John: August 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Lessons from 1 John: August 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We live in a broken world. It doesn’t take too long to see that. As we all have aged, we’ve had to learn how to do our best to live in this reality in a God-pleasing way. We fail often,...

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  • Reframing Our Thoughts: July 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Reframing Our Thoughts: July 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    How often do you think about your thoughts? Hmm, let me think about that. Thoughts matter a great deal to God. The Bible says, “the word of God is living and active, . . . discerning the...

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  • Planning for Baptismal Birthdays: June 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Planning for Baptismal Birthdays: June 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    The day I was baptized was a cold day in December. It was five days before Christmas and nearly 17.75 years after my earthly entrance. My pastor helped me to keep the Fourth Commandment...

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  • Grace in Our Home: May 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Grace in Our Home: May 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Ten years ago, my mom and I were tying pieces of silky purple ribbon to the top of dozens of lovely wedding bulletins. It was a few weeks before my wedding, and she and I had had so much...

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  • 5 Ways Enduring Faith Religion Curriculum Boosts Students’ Bible Knowledge

    5 Ways Enduring Faith Religion Curriculum Boosts Students’ Bible Knowledge

    Classroom Bible learning is more than just memorizing facts—it is helping students connect with God’s Word in a way that strengthens their faith and deepens their understanding. Beyond...

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  • Joy in Tough Times: April 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Joy in Tough Times: April 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    It’s a tough season for my family. It’s not the toughest it could be. We’re all (mostly) healthy. We’re not looking to move or leave our jobs anytime soon. We’ve settled into a rhythm of...

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  • Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “Everything will be okay.” “Don’t worry. Be happy.” “Hakuna matata.” These feel-good yet frothy phrases center around an issue that is near and dear to my sinful heart: worry.

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  • What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “I don’t want to pray right now,” my two-and-a-half-year-old says. I know that these words don’t actually mean she doesn’t want the comfort of prayer, but she doesn’t want to go to bed....

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  • Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    My three-year-old and one-year-old had just thrown F5-level meltdowns for the first fifteen minutes of church (some of it in the pew, some of it in the nursery, some outside … you get the...

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  • Who Was Ambrose of Milan?

    Who Was Ambrose of Milan?

    As a part of my blog series about church history figures, I’ll be introducing Ambrose, a remarkable man who served as bishop of Milan from AD 374 to his death in AD 397. Read on to...

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  • Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We long for deep community. We strive for healthy and helpful relationships with family members, church people, and neighbors. But if we’re honest with ourselves, especially as parents,...

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  • Who Was Byzantine Emperor Justinian?

    Who Was Byzantine Emperor Justinian?

    Like any country, sometimes we are blessed with God-fearing leaders, and sometimes we are not. Sometimes our land experiences prosperity and peace, sometimes war and disaster. Sometimes...

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  • Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We are now entering the one time of year in our world that is focused on being generous, giving back, and serving our neighbors. Bell ringers at stores, social media posts of friends...

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  • Who Was Ignatius of Antioch?

    Who Was Ignatius of Antioch?

    If your experience is anything like mine, you look around the world today and see a culture increasingly hostile to Christianity. Something as simple as a trip to the local library with...

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  • Written on Their Hearts: October 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Written on Their Hearts: October 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Psalm 119:15–16 states, “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” When I read this verse, I cannot...

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  • Comparison: September 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Comparison: September 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your...

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  • Who Was St. Augustine of Hippo?

    Who Was St. Augustine of Hippo?

    “You have formed us for Yourself, oh Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in you.” —St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 1.1, paraphrased  If you enter a room of...

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  • Your Kids See Christ in Your Marriage: August 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Your Kids See Christ in Your Marriage: August 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    My wedding anniversary is coming up. Every year midsummer, I think about the vows we made and how we continue to live out those vows. And if I’m being honest, sometimes I think about how...

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  • Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We’ve all felt the struggle. When you’re sitting in an awkward waiting room, when your kid asks you the same question over and over, when you’re tired at the end of a long day—we struggle...

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  • How to Equip Youth with Resilient Minds

    How to Equip Youth with Resilient Minds

    Mental health awareness has increased significantly over the last decade, especially for our youth. When it comes to addressing these important topics and conversations, there are a lot...

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