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Faith Over Feelings: 3 Truths to Help You Pursue God When You Don’t Feel Like It
One of the most frustrating challenges a Christian can face is learning to trust our faith over our feelings. This can be especially true during a difficult season when we feel distant from God. In those seasons, we may find ourselves…
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5 Signs You’re Spiritually Tired and How to Renew Your Faith
Has your fire for the Lord been snuffed out? Do you feel spiritually tired and drained in your faith walk? Perhaps you’ve found yourself spending less time with God, flirting with sin, and feeling distant from your loving savior. If that’s…
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4 Ways God’s Waiting Season Strengthens Your Faith and Changes You
God often uses a waiting season to strengthen your faith. It builds trust, shapes character, teaches discipline, and—most importantly—deepens your relationship with Him. Even when waiting is difficult, God often allows it for your good. If you’re in a waiting season…
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8 Articles to Celebrate Easter in 2025
Easter is the time to celebrate Jesus’s extraordinary love for us. Despite His godly nature, He humbled Himself to live among us, died on the cross, and rose from the grave for our eternal salvation. Below, you’ll find Shining Ever Brighter’s…
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5 Things to Remember While Trusting God and Waiting on His Promises
Waiting on God is one of the most difficult parts of living out our faith. This is because we often ask God to fulfill a desire that we think is good for us, and, when the wait stretches for weeks, months,…
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Why Does God Make Us Wait? Two Biblical Reasons for Waiting on God and His Timing
Why does God make us wait? This is such a hard question, and we will never fully know all the answers. Often times, waiting is a frustrating experience. When we pray and see no immediate answer, we may wonder if God…
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Easter and the Resurrection: 3 Powerful Reasons We Have Hope in Jesus
One of the greatest gifts Jesus gave us through His sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection is hope. This hope comes from the knowledge that God loved us enough to send Jesus to pay for our sins. In addition to…
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4 Powerful Benefits of the Cross Every Christian Should Know
The benefits of the cross cannot be overstated. Through the cross, Jesus suffered God’s judgement for our sins. He purchased eternal life, provided healing and deliverance, restored our relationship with the Father, and allowed us to experience God’s grace. Jesus provided…
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Does God Punish Us? 3 Assumptions We Make about God’s Unconditional Love and Justice
Have you ever questioned God’s unconditional love? Someone recently asked me, “how can a loving God punish people for sin?” This isn’t the first time that I’ve heard such a question. Even so, it is a difficult question to answer because…
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5 Biblical Truths to Remember When You Feel Unloved
Feeling unloved is a difficult and painful part of the human experience. Most of us will struggle with feelings of rejection, abandonment, and loneliness at least once in our lives. Despite this, we can take heart in the biblical truth that…
