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When you live in a foreign country, navigating little things can feel overwhelming. But this also makes it easy to be thankful for the little things as well. I have always enjoyed doing laundry…it has never seemed like a chore to me. But in a foreign country, it’s a different story. It took me a couple of weeks to figure out our apartment washing machine. You had to manually turn on the water, and then I would push buttons randomly until it started. Sometimes this took only

I’m probably going to step on some toes with this one, but rest assured, I’m stepping on mine first. In the past few decades, we’ve been inundated with MySpace, iPhones, YouTube and various other mediums which center around “us.” More recently, there’s been a new phrase coined “main character syndrome.” It seems to affect those who grew up in this media age, or really anyone who has been submerged in technology. They view everything in life as if it’s a movie, they’re the “ma

As we read about the kings of Judah and Israel, we can learn many important lessons for our own lives. We see a King like Jehoshaphat. For the most part, he served God, relied on Him and did that which was pleasing in His sight. But his failure was compromise. He joined with two wicked kings of Israel. God had given Him a miraculous victory (2 Chronicles 20). But shortly after this, we read about him making an alliance with the wicked King Ahaziah. Sadly, we can also have vic