At Christmas we celebrate that God gave us his presence. As followers of Jesus, we should give others the same.

Through a car crash that was my fault, God taught me about his love.

The death of death began when the Lord of Life was born.

The best parts of life, like the birth of a baby, teach us to long for the fullness of Christ’s second coming. And the most brutal parts of life, like the miscarriage of a baby, teach us to long for the fullness of Christ’s second coming.

Perhaps the reasons we love Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol go deeper than we were aware.  

Each month, Benjamin Vrbicek, the GCD managing editor, offers coaching to writers. This month: “Good writing prefers the concrete over the general.”

Life is hard enough without endless comparison to others.

After restless years in systems where you have to earn your keep, it was so refreshing to come back to the church and be welcomed for reasons other than what I can offer.

Tim Shorey, one of our staff writers, is journaling through his struggle with stage 4 cancer. In this entry he expresses the longing he has for God to take away his cancer.

Sometimes obedience looks like resting when we want to do good work and believing that God can work while we rest.

While we were in our deepest pain and the most chaotic season of our life—the fear of potentially losing our six-month-old daughter—the church served as our pillar of prayer. 

In this excerpt from the recently released Help for the Hungry Soul, author Kristen Wetherell reminds readers of the importance of the Spirit of God in awakening godly desires