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Are You Actually Listening?

Rachel Chimits

As we go through life, how often do we really take time to love and care for others, especially those people we don’t like very much?

Franklin D. Roosevelt took the office of president in the middle of the Great Depression and then lead the United States through World War II. While he was helming the nation through one of its hardest decades, he was struggling with partial paralysis as the result of polio.

Churches Breaking Like Biscuits

Rachel Chimits

Believers in the West have more religious options and liberties than ever, but the church seems to be struggling in direct proportion, so what’s the problem?

“Marriages these days are breaking like biscuits,” laments Sima Taparia, otherwise known as Sima Aunty to her clients in Netflix’s popular show Indian Matchmaking.

What if I Don’t Wait for God?

Rachel Chimits

When the answers to our prayers seem to get delayed, our greatest temptation often becomes trying to help God out.

Texting someone and then waiting for their response can sometimes feel like agony. I imagine that sending letters with high-stakes content was similar, but the problem with phones is that the return message could come any minute. If it doesn’t, then I have questions.

When Is It Okay for Me to Judge?

Rachel Chimits

We often hear that we shouldn’t judge others, but does this mean that we shouldn’t speak up if we notice sin or problems in someone else’s life?

David Wilkerson wrote about a small but jarring experience he once had in a bank. He’d walked in to make a withdrawal from his account. All was moving along as per usual until the teller handed him the cash he had requested.

Living on Top of the World

Rachel Chimits

Greatness in achievement and position is something that our culture idolizes, but how does Christianity support or contradict that goal?

The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the best Western examples of ultra-macho greatness. In it, 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians held the pass against a Persian force that historians believe numbered between 100,000 and 150,000 strong.