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Seasonal Depression? 4 Tips to Encourage You This Winter

Seasonal depression can create major internal struggles, including feelings of isolation, rejection, and abandonment. If you experience seasonal depression, here are some practical tips to help and encourage you...

New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work: Make a Health Plan

The holiday season’s air is thick with New Year's resolutions; well intended, but far more likely to fail than succeed. So let’s re-frame those good intentions and agree that any time of year is a great time to make changes that improve your health and life.

The Day After Christmas....Now What?

For you, is Christmas about feelings of expectation and euphoria, followed by feelings of disappointment and despair right afterward?  Or is there something more to be gained from the passing of Christmas Day?

Casting Crowns - 'Make Room' (Official Music Video) ft. Matt Maher

Tapping the talents of Matt Maher, Casting Crowns creates a song that takes the event of The Nativity and points that to the listener.  Are YOU making room for the New King?

Watch the music video for “Make Room (feat. Matt Maher)” by Casting Crowns. Merry Christmas!

CAIN - 'Grown-Up Christmas List' (Official Performance Video)

Applying their signature sibling sound to this Amy Grant classic, CAIN gives us this intimate video performance of "Grown Up Christmas List".

Light Bites for Healthier Holidays

For all the holiday get-togethers you're planning, it can be to fix something nutritious as well as delicious.  

Here are some excellent ideas to serve to family and friends that will please the pallet and feed the body. 

Matt Maher - Jingle Bells (Official Music Video)

When you've written hallmark songs like, "Lord I Need You", "Because He Lives", and "Christ is Risen" that the church worldwide sings, how does Matt Maher top that?  Why, by singing good old-fashioned Christmas songs!

Matt goes fun and fancy with his jazz-infused rendition of "Jingle Bells"!

for King & Country - 'Little Drummer Boy' (Live at CMA Christmas)

Two-time GRAMMY® Award winning duo for KING & COUNTRY enraptured the CMA Country Christmas audience with their captivating and powerful performance of Little Drummer Boy.

25 Joyful Prayers to Ready Your Heart for Christmas

As we focus our hearts on Jesus this Christmas season, we can offer Him one prayer each day, focusing on who He is and all He has done for us! When we are reminded of who Jesus is, and turn our eyes to Him, in an ever-changing world, we are reminded that He truly is the Savior of the World.

MercyMe - 'Christmastime Again' (Official Lyric Video)

MercyMe ("Greater") rings in Christmas by singing about what's on all our minds - "It's Christmastime already"?

Here's a fun twist on the holiday videos we see circulating around the Internet, with the official lyric video of their single, "Christmastime Again".

Lauren Daigle - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

Venturing off the safe path, Lauren Daigle ("How Can it Be") gives us a completely new take on a classic Christmas favorite; incorporating some ol' New Orleans flavor to the song.  Here's Lauren's take on "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

Mandisa - "What Child Is This?" (Official Lyric Video)

Take just a moment - relax and reflect - on the REAL meaning of Christmas, as Mandisa sings her tender rendition of this Christmas classic - "What Child Is This?"  From her holiday album, It's Christmas

Who was St. Nicholas?

We have assigned so many attributes to St. Nick - except maybe some historical facts!  Where did St. Nicholas come from, and how do we separate historical fact from holiday fiction?  

Here's a narrative you can share with your family to help everyone appreciate Christmas all the more. 

An Advent Prayer for Waiting and Trusting

As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, let's look at the testimonies of two women in scripture who truly inspire us towards joy and anticipation this season.

Manage Grief with Grace This Holiday Season

Holidays are filled with traditions, but when someone you used to share those moments with has died, managing grief during the holiday season can be extremely hard.  Here are some ways to navigate this time - for a friend, a family member, or for yourself. 

How Would Jesus Celebrate Christmas?

Most years I tend to lose sight of Jesus somewhere between the deals of Black Friday and the dawn of a new year.  As I fight to carve out the time to consider the sacred, I keep wondering how Jesus would celebrate His birth. 

If Jesus were still walking the earth, what would He be doing this Christmas? Here's my best guess....

Matthew West - "A Christmas to Believe In" (Official Lyric Video)

Multiple-GRAMMY® nominee, American Music Award and Billboard Music Award winner Matthew West brings the title track from his Christmas album, titled, “A Christmas to Believe In.”

Here is the song's lyric video.

Lauren Daigle - 'Noel'

Critics agree, 'Noel' is one of Lauren Daigle's more breathtaking performances to date.  While still an up-and-coming artist, Lauren recorded this song on Chris Tomlin's 2015 Christmas album, Adore.  Surprisingly, it has become one of the season's most-played songs.

Here is Lauren Daigle's "Noel"... 

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