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The problem with the concept of karma is that grace is absent from the equation. Here's how you can practice what we might call The Karma of Jesus.

Christian love is offensive because it is willing to offer the socially awkward word of rebuke. Christian love is willing to risk stepping on someone’s toes because you don’t want to see them continue heading down the path of sin and self-destruction.

The Christian life would be easy if the space in time is small between when you claim God's promises and when you receive what He promised. But life's not like that.

We all have one–a Secret Name that is. The Bible tells us so. Yet few of us know ours. Ignorantly, we’re stuck, caught up in the “Name Game,” searching for our true identity. Author Kary Oberbrunner takes you deep, past clichés to discover your Secret Name and the vision God has for your life. Read more in an excerpt.

Even when we don't understand our present circumstances, we can walk in the light.

What does it mean to submit to a local church? Didn't Jesus come to set us free, and isn't this what love always does—set the beloved free?

Each time I came across something that contradicted what I had believed before receiving Christ, I had to make a choice to reject my former teachings or experiences and replace them with what God said about the situation or circumstance.

How can teens—who have been given so much from their Christian parents, good churches, and godly examples—chuck it all in favor of the temporary pleasures of sin?

Author Tosca Lee has taken the first four chapters of the Bible and filled in details I never even thought to wonder about. Did Adam and Eve tell their children about their life in the Garden? If so, did they include the part about forbidden fruit or conveniently leave that out? What was it like to be the first humans?

I know God's conception of time varies greatly from mine. I know a thousand years with the Lord is as a day. I know God takes the long-term view of temporal events. I know all that; I just don't like it very much.

Once my heart rate had dropped back to a normal level and the nausea passed, I began to ponder the similarities of my son's friend's swimming pool production with our walk with Christ.

What I didn't expect with my new personal training toy is the spiritual lessons I'd glean or the spiritual muscles I'd tone.

"I yearn for more regular occasions of deep worship."

A dozen details straight from the scriptures to guide your prayers.

Do we really have to say “This is true and that is false; this is right and that is wrong?” Why can’t everyone just be right? Find out here.

Two ideas must be present in how we think about suffering: (1) suffering is not original; it has not always existed. (2) suffering is not something created or authored by God.

In a strange, mysterious way, God has chosen to enlist His children to accomplish His purpose for reaching the world and establishing His kingdom on earth! Mind boggling isn't it?

Through biblical evidence and real-life experiences, Steven Furtick shows you what happens when ordinary believers move beyond "purpose" to passion---and asking God for the impossible becomes a normal way of life.