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With all the shopping and entertainment and get-togethers and everything else that can distract from what’s most important about Christmas, how can you keep your focus where it should be? John MacArthur will help you with that as he takes you back to the wonders of the very first Christmas. Don’t miss his series called The Real Meaning of Christmas.

Join us on today's Bible Minute from Back to the Bible Canada.

Is sin just an occasional mistake, or something deeper? Working through Romans 3:9–18, Dr. John Neufeld explains that all people are under the power of sin and are also willing collaborators in it, and walks through Paul’s indictment of our character, speech, behaviour, and arrogance toward God. Honestly facing our sin is the first step to freedom and to seeing why the Cross is so precious.

The Heart of the Gospel: This 25-message series on Romans 1–4 presents us with Christianity 101. It is the basics of our faith, teaching us how we can know for certain that sins are forgiven and what it is to live by faith.

Listen to today's Laugh Again with Phil Callaway, "You're Not Old." Enjoy!

While writing her book The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, Shaunti Feldhahn did a massive research study involving thousands of married couples. Her follow-up interviews with hundreds of couples who had the happiest marriages revealed some simple attitudes and actions that can help your marriage today!

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Simple Habits for Marital Happiness -- Build a happy marriage with this free video series! You'll learn four foundational "fall in love" habits, how to overcome marital complacency, how-to’s for connecting through the day, and more.

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We may not be able to reach millions of people, but we can impact our neighbour...our co-worker...our friend. Reaching the world starts with just one person.

When disaster strikes, the human spirit responds by reaching out to help those afflicted. People stand in line to give blood. Rescue teams work for endless hours. But the most essential effort is accomplished by another valiant team. Their task?  To gird the world with prayer.

For the most part, we don’t even know their names. Such is the case of someone who prayed on a day long ago. He went to Jesus on behalf of a friend who was sick. No one was more vital than the one who went to Jesus. John writes, “So Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is sick'” (John 11:3 NCV).

Someone went to Jesus on behalf of Lazarus. And because someone went, Jesus responded. Would you be someone for someone?

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