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Depression and the Need for Community: 6 Practical Ways to Help

By Christina Fox / December 10, 2024

Depression can remain in the shadows until it’s become such a part of us, we don’t remember when we didn’t feel that way. Here are six practical ways the church community can help carry us through the darkness until the sun shines again.

7 Ways to Love Your Spouse

By Le Ann Trees / October 3, 2024

Marriages need nurturing in both the good and trying times of life. Here are seven practical ways to love your spouse.

Q & A: 10 Important Aspects of Submission and Authority in a Christian Marriage

By Le Ann Trees / September 13, 2024

Are Christian wives called to submit to the godly leadership of their husbands? What does the Bible teach about submission and authority in a Christian marriage?

Sharing with Fellow Believers in Their Sufferings

By Daniel Rowlands / August 30, 2024

Photo by pcess609 / iStock.com Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning Beautiful Christian Life LLC may get a commission if you decide to make a purchase through its links, at no cost to you. I remember growing up in the church in the late sixties and early seventies when the word “koinonia” became popular to describe…

Are You a Productive Bee? 7 Ways God Has Gifted Christians to Serve

By Campbell Markham / July 31, 2024

A jar of honey is the result of thousands of forager bees, drones, builders, guards, and nurses toiling for the queen and her honeycomb kingdom. Here are 7 ways Christians also labor together to produce a sweet gospel harvest.

4 Ways to Lovingly Deal with Rejection

By Ayrian Yasar / May 31, 2024

When people have treated us badly, it’s tempting to become bitter and aloof toward or lash out in anger at them. Here are four ways to lovingly deal with unwarranted rejection.

Forgive—We Can—We Must

By Campbell Markham / April 11, 2024

Forgiving others is much easier said than done. What does the Bible teach us about the nature of forgiveness that will help us to truly forgive others from our heart?

5 Ways to Love People in the Midst of Their Sin and Frailty

By Ayrian Yasar / March 7, 2024

Loving people tends to be easy when they are good and kind or strong and beautiful. We struggle, though, when people are at their worst and weakest. Here are five ways to love people in the midst of their sin and frailty.

Is Church Discipline Mean?

By R. Scott Clark / March 5, 2024

The tendency today is to view the church as a means of therapy, a place of fellowship and encouragement. The very idea of church discipline seems high-handed, arbitrary, unjust, even mean. Is this true?