There is personal comfort in Christmas. It’s good, but it ought not to end with us. The comfort of Christ is meant to move through his comforted people to a hurting world.

Hope rooted in Christ doesn’t pretend things aren’t hard. It looks right at the pain and still stands.

In this excerpt from How Church Could (Literally) Save Your Life, author and speaker Rebecca McLaughlin shows readers the benefits the local church has on the mental health of her members.

Doing this one thing has saved me so much unnecessary angst and struggle, and I believe it honors the Lord and blesses others.

This Christmas season, we need nothing more than to see the meaning of the manger. It offers a sure and certain knowledge that he knows, that he cares, that he saves, and that he will be with us through to the very end, right on into eternity.

In this excerpt from How to Remember, songwriter and author Andrew Osenga shows readers how Jesus, the man of sorrows, is able to meet us uniquely in our suffering and lament.

Keep moving towards gratitude and pausing upon it today. You’ll find yourself all the richer with every thanks, for you’ll discover yourself both humbled and dearly loved. 

Did you catch that? God specifically gives us insight into his will, and right there in his will is this simple phrase: “give thanks in all circumstances.”

In this excerpt from All Things Together, pastor and author Heath Hardesty shows readers how Jesus reshapes our imagination to make us his faithful apprentices.

Church music on Sunday mornings is not performance but participation. God, in his mercy, designed worship so that every praise directed toward him would lift our spirits in the process. 

The good news is we don’t rescue ourselves from the current; Christ does. He’s the lifeline, the shore, and the rest your soul’s been searching for.

In this excerpt from When Life Feels Empty, pastor and author Isaac Serrano shows readers that gathering with God’s people is one of the ways he reveals meaning to us.