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An anonymous woman in Australia paid off around $16,000 worth of toys on layaway at a Queensland toystore.

As with every other season of this year, the many tragedies and challenges of 2020 are affecting Christmas. But there is opportunity in the pain of these days.

According to WalletHub’s annual study observing giving habits, the most charitable U.S. states in 2020 are Utah, Minnesota and Maryland.

In an interview with Christian Headlines, author Daniel Darling shares five things Christians should keep in mind when communicating with others.

We can choose the self-centered existentialistic ethos of our culture or we can choose to serve the common good by serving together. Here are three biblical steps to a better future:

Here’s the bad news: humans cannot change human nature. Here’s the good news: Jesus can.

Jesus turned a fearful fisherman into the courageous preacher of Pentecost. He transformed a persecutor of Christians into the greatest missionary and theologian in Christian history. He brought hope to an exiled apostle on Patmos. He can bring hope to your heart today.

Individualism has replaced cooperation in our culture. Darwin convinced us that humans are not made in God’s image but are just one branch of the primates. Freud explained religion as the voice of conscience when we feel remorse for acting out our base instincts. Evolutionary psychologists define a human as just a gene’s way of making another gene, here by sheer accident.

In short, we are merely individuals locked in competition with other individuals.

What God does in us, he does through us. He used a crippled man to reach the multitude who witnessed his healing. He works through changed lives to change lives.

Teens and young adults from St. George Boston church hosted a car wash over the weekend to raise funds for the victims of the massive explosion that happened in early August in Beirut.

Tony and Lauren Dungy are working with the Salvation Army to raise funds for a new, state-of-the-art emergency shelter.