A weekly newsletter about family, faith and culture, written by A. Z. Adams.
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Blessing All the Families of the Earth Christmas is all about family, isn’t it? We find evidence of this in the Gospel of Matthew, where the Christmas story begins not with angels and wise men but with a genealogy—a family tree. Tracing twenty-eight generations, it reaches all the
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Merry Christmas, church family and friends— This morning’s post is a Christmas story titled “Home for Christmas.”It’s drawn from true events in December, 1977, recounting a pivotal season in my parents’ lives when an unexpected and challenging turn clarified what home really is—and what kind of
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Greetings, church family and friends! Since I already filled your inbox with a book-length essay earlier this week, I thought I’d offer something a bit more concise this morning. On our drive back from Colorado this fall—everyone squeezed into the pickup, music playing, conversations rising and falling like
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Hi, friends, I’m writing outside my usual rhythm to share something timely. Last December, I drafted an essay wrestling with the tensions, questions, and redemptive possibilities surrounding Christmas—especially for Christians who are serious about honoring God in all things. I chose not to release it then, out of
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Greetings, church family and friends, As I sit here today, letting the dust settle from this extraordinary week, my heart is full beyond words. Thanksgiving itself was a joy—Rebekah and I hosted our family and a handful of friends, all 87 of them, and we had six turkeys, cornbread
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As this season of harvest draws to a close and we take stock of all that the Lord has done and all that we have to be thankful for, we’re making the conscious choice to adopt gratitude—to focus not on the unknowns, the losses, the pain, or the
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Introduction Greetings, church family and friends, “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him” (Ps. 34:8). There is a troubling and increasingly common trend in Christian circles today: the insistence that lived fruit—the very evidence Scripture tells us reveals
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Mercy is God’s means, God’s mind, and God’s weapon. He crowns His people with compassion, giving them authority to release burdens and cancel debts. To forgive is to let the ocean of His grace flow through you and overcome evil with good. Forgiveness is release. It breaks every chain.
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I only recently came across a well-known study called The Rat Park Experiment. Researchers wanted to understand what leads to addiction. They confined rats in small, barren cages with only food, water, and two drinking spouts—one with pure water and one laced with cocaine. Every single time, the rats
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The church was never meant to be a collection of isolated gifts or competing traditions, but a living body and a single house—each member and movement joined together in divine interdependence until the whole temple of God stands complete on the earth.
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Dear Readers, Over the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring the theme of challenging our economic assumptions. Today I’m breaking from my usual schedule to share a guest essay, “Surviving the Jobs Apocalypse,” by my friend Rory Groves. Rory is one of those rare voices who unsettles complacency
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“We live in an age intoxicated with acquisition—where want disguises itself as need, and excess is called blessing. But this is not faith—it’s bondage. True freedom comes when we embrace God’s boundaries as gifts, finding in His provision not limitation, but peace and lordship.”