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Keeping your kids engaged during family devotions can be quite the challenge. The last thing you want is for your kids to think that God’s Word is boring! In this Best of 2025 episode, Mr. Tim Shoemaker shares how he revitalized his devotional time with his sons. You’ll learn how to share important life and spiritual applications through some “kinda dangerous” object lessons, and you’ll be encouraged as you seek to pass down your faith to the next generation.

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It’s a strange day indeed when a “man of the cloth” runs from the Lord. Jonah was a prophet of God . . . but when God gave him an assignment, he literally left town in the opposite direction. That solved everything, right? Not at all. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie points out, when we run from God, He still knows where we are, and He has some amazing ways to get our attention. And He may stop at nothing to get us back on track. Let’s learn more.

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Frustrated by a lack of progress? Chip shares why dependency, not determination, is the key to the lasting change you desire.

Threefold practice for change:

1. Look BACK
2. Look UP
3. Look forward

Key areas to evaluate:

• Relationship with the Lord
• Most important relationships
• Physical health
• Other relationships
• Work / Career / Education
• Personal ministry
• Emotional health

Set spiritual priority -Mt. 6:33

• Get in shape spiritually

Don’t go it alone -Ec. 4:12b; Pro. 13:30

Abide in Christ -John 15:5

• Refuse to rely on sheer willpower, habits, and hacks.

Final thoughts

• Refuse to COMPARE yourself with other people. -2 Cor. 10:12
• Refuse to be a PEOPLE pleaser. -Lk. 16:15; Gal. 1:10

Conclusion

• Evaluate
• Look back
• Look up
• Prioritize

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We often think of time as something we spend. But the Bible tells us that it is something we first have to buy back. So how do we go about the process of buying back our time? The answer comes your way next, as Ron shares five biblical ways to redeem your time. Stay with us now as Ron moves ahead in his series, “I Resolve.” 

Can God’s presence sustain you through the valley of tears?  Today on BOLD STEPS, Mark Jobe continues our series Finding Words with a message on finding renewal in tough seasons.  We’ll learn how to be honest with God and discover that one day in His presence is better than a thousand elsewhere.  Find refreshing springs in the valley. Listen to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe.

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Jesus promised His disciples power, and when He has first place in our lives, that power begins to flow. How can we be filled with the Holy Spirit of God? In this message from John 7, Pastor Lutzer demonstrates four aspects of receiving God's power: yielding, feeding, weeding, and filling. The supernatural filling of the Spirit can be received by faith.

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Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church in Chicago, where he served as Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is a prolific author of over seventy books. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on "Running To Win" and "Songs In The Night," with programs broadcasting on over a thousand outlets in the U.S. and across more than fifty countries in seven languages. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren. 

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