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Care for a mouthful of butter? A raw egg or two? A drink of vanilla extract? Or perhaps a cup of flour? That's your birthday cake--in installments! Are we complaining about what God is making of us while it's still in the mixing step? Wait till He's done! The gospel...

We haven't been called to a life of leisure. We're in a battle. Have you grown weary in the fight, Christian? Do you feel like giving up? God's command to "Be strong" doesn't offer much encouragement — until we remember the rest of the verse and the secret of truth...

A story may have entertainment value, but that's not the purpose of the ones we tell. Find out how you can be a story teller for God too.

Here's a story about a teenager who thought the Bible's claims were just too ridiculous to believe. But the God who invites us to reason together with Him has given us more than enough evidence to believe. Will you?

How have God's courageous servants been able to look death in the face and calmly smile at it? Or, Stephen-like, forgive their murderers and then join Jesus on the other side? Like the Calverts, they had a secret.

Who won the wrestling match between God and Jacob? You might be surprised! — and pleasantly encouraged to learn what happens when we stop wrestling and start resting.

Things aren't always what they seem. Who was really guilty of the crime? The short but stories career of a car snatcher.

Dear Christian, you have been the recipient of God's grace. But do others "see" that same grace flowing out of your life? What boulders we often move INTO the path of God's blessing, thus blocking ourselves off from His grace.

People in finance have various limits on the amount of a loan they can approve or the size of a check they can endorse. What about your spiritual quality of initial, Christian?

Ultimately God should get the credit for "every good gift" (Jas 1:17). But this sweet story reminds us that many of His blessings come through people like you and me.