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Revive Our Hearts | Dear Next Generation

The gospel is the whole shootin’ match. Don’t live a single day without it.

by Cindy Matson

Dear Next Gen Sister,

Though it boggles my mind, I have now lived as many years after high school graduation as I did before it. I feel like Y2K was just a few years ago; that the attacks on the Twin Towers are a recent, rather than distant, memory; and I can remember a time when you...

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Two Prayer Requests to Kill the Green-Eyed Monster

If jealousy has gotten the drop on you, come boldly before the throne of grace with these two simple prayer requests to drive the Sword of the Spirit into the heart of the green-eyed monster.

by Cindy Matson | We can thank one man for a number of common words. Hostile, auspicious, dwindle, and watchdog were all first written down by the Bard of Stratford, William Shakespeare. He coined a number of phrases still in use five centuries later as well. If you’ve told your teenager that he’s going to “eat you out of house and home...

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Crushing the Idol of Control

It’s not just kings who worship idols; you and I do too.

by Cindy Matson | King Asa wasn’t an idolater like his father, Abijam. In fact, he did much to rid the southern kingdom of Judah of its pagan idols. But he was an idolater all the same. And he had the diseased feet to prove it. You can read the account for yourself in 1 Kings 15 and 2 Chronicles 16. Asa’s idol wasn’t Baal or an Asherah. It wasn’t Dagon, Ra, or Zeus. It was control...