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Niki Hardy
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How to ensure 2021 is as good as we're hoping it will be
It's safe to say 2021 isn't going to miraculously get better overnight, so, I wonder, can 2021 be all we're hoping it will be and if it can, how do we ensure that it is?
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Trusting God is good, even when life isn't
We long to travel through life anxiety-free, confident God's got it and won't let us down. But, especially in a year like this one, it doesn't seem to work like that and we're left trying to go it alone with God along for the ride, beaten down by the idea that if life is unpredictable and unreliable, God must be too. So what can we do to change that negative thought cyle?
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Finding peace in the pandemic
Whether it's the relentlessness of life or the panic of the pandemic, what are we meant to do? How can we pray at times like these?
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How to be thankful when you really aren't
Firstly, we must stop waiting for the pages of our life to flip forward to the happily ever after we've imagined.
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How to hear God's voice when life's fallen apart
A cancer diagnosis is awful enough, but I'd lost my sister to this ravaging disease just six weeks before and my mom six years before that.
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What if life doesn't have to be pain-free to be full?
As the rest of the world waited expectantly for midnight to usher in the new year I sat by my sister' bedside willing time to stand still. She was dying at just forty-four.
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The problem with God's omnipotence
When pain unexpectedly shifts from being a distant, abstract conundrum to an up close and personal daily wrestle, we find ourselves making assumptions about God and His goodness, questioning His love and ultimately His forgiveness.
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The myth of an abundant life
No one posts pictures with captions like "This is me fighting with my teenager who I found sneaking out last night" or "This is my cute new bag (where I stash my secret little orange bottle of pills)." And I've never seen a selfie with the hashtags #lonely, #depressed, #abused, #unworthy, #ashamed, or #unlovable.
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Does God really love you when the hard times roll in?
Sitting in the cold, sterile doctor's room, the words, "We found a 5cm tumor and it's either cancer or lymphoma" left me bewildered.
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How to handle anything life throws at you
We've heard it before, "No one gets to skip the tough stuff in life," or, "Everybody's got something."
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Can public embarrassment be good for you?
What do you do when you're faced with the intense emotional discomfort we call embarrassment?
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God's Providence: Can we stack the odds in our favour?
'May the odds be ever in your favour.' These words have become part of an entire generation's vocabulary.
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How to hear God's voice when you're desperate for an answer
I prayed and prayed for God to make it super abundantly clear. This was big and we needed to be one hundred per cent sure.
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I've lived with cancer: I know God can handle it when we scream at him
I've learned screaming at God is never bad. He's big enough to handle it and I'm sure he'd rather I turned to him than anyone or anything else.
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When Christmas is just plain hard: 5 ways to help you cope
Christmas is often more messy and broken than merry and bright.
