Lana Christian

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Grab your favorite brew and visit a few minutes with Encouragement from Living History. That sums up my blog: thoughts grounded in the Bible, sprinkled with interesting tidbits from history, all applied to life today. Readers say, “I learn something new every time I read your blog.” Here’s an open invitation to sit a few minutes now and come back often to share your thoughts.

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When You Go Through Hell, Keep Walking

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If you haven’t heard country music composer Rodney Atkins’ 2011 song to that effect, seventy-three years earlier, Winston Churchill reportedly said the same thing. He reinforced it in his now-immortal speech, “We shall fight on the seas and oceans … we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … we shall never surrender.”…

How to Survive a Joy Crash

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You’ve had a sugar crash, right? Waaay too much birthday cake or noshing at the state fair. It’s not much different with a joy crash—that nosedive from unshakable confidence in God’s sovereignty to discouragement or despair….

Jesus’ Week on the Mount of Olives: Seeing What Matters

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Virtually everyone has seen a backlit portrait of Jesus praying the night He was betrayed. But this Easter, as I read about His last week of His earthly life, something jumped out at me that I hadn’t noticed before. “Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives” (Luke 21:37, BSB, emphasis mine)….