New Life Moments Category

  • A New Year of Truth

    Excerpted from the book Healing is a Choice by Steve Arterburn You’ve heard the phrase ‘out with the old and in with the new.’ This year I hope you will pitch some old lies that…

  • Your Identity

    New Life Ministries   Saint Augustine is without doubt one of the most, if not the most, important thinkers in the history of Christianity.  Yet before Augustine became a Christian in his early thirties, he…

  • Animals or Image Bearers?

    And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.’ And it was so. And God made the beasts…

  • Before and After

    Steve Arterburn Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17) When you trust in Christ you become a new creation.  You…

  • Cheerful Giving

    Excperted from the book Being Christian by Steve Arterburn and John Shore It really is better to give than to receive. That’s a fact. Not particularly natural or easy for us to believe, but a…

  • Christmas Good

    Steve Arterburn   And in the same region [Nazareth] there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory…

  • Christmas Lessons from Charlie Brown

    Steve Arterburn The Peanuts Christmas special begins with Charlie Brown feeling blue. Why? He doesn’t know what Christmas is about but he does sense that it’s about more than presents.  Something inside him rejects the…

  • Contentment–Give Yourself the Gift of Affirmation

    From the book Every Woman’s Marriage by Shannon Ethridge Rather than looking to others to make you feel good about yourself, try looking to God for His opinion; then look inward to recognize the things…

  • That's Not Fair

    Excerpted from the book Transformation by Steve Arterburn The reason many of us have trouble accepting our situations in life stems from faulty thinking about God.  We see him as a cosmic stage manager waiting…

  • True Hero

    Excerpted from More Jesus, Less Religion by Steve Arterburn John himself was not the light; he was only a witness to the light. John 1:8   In Matthew 11:27, Jesus said, ‘All things have been…