Start the new year with some Excellent Resources! Should you try to find a new plan to energize your devotional time? Is your craving to please others interfering with pleasing God? And if you're looking for some quality Christian music, take a look at these suggestions. Spend some time with these quality reads.

This week's Excellent Reads prove that Christmas isn't over yet! View a video, "The Night Before Christmas," to learn what the Roman Empire was like when Christ was born (parental guidance encouraged). Did Jesus have a favorite title for Himself? And Christmas carols! Who doesn't love them?! Right? Learn 9 interesting facts about them.

Excellent Reads for Christmas include the question of why the virgin conception matters and a selection of Advent videos for you to enjoy.

The Christmas holidays hold both joy and sorrow for some people. Check out these three reminders that can help you keep this month in perspective.

The best words that we can come up with to describe Jesus are weak, puny, and incomplete. See why.

The person most affected by any change to Roe v. Wade is the child who is the victim in every single case. Read this to see what life is like for that baby as it grows in utero.

Should we pray to get out of a trial or ask for the faith to withstand it?

Feeling nagged to be thankful during the holidays? Here’s a tongue-in-cheek look at how to overcome the pressure.· Has your Advent celebration become routine? Check out the provided new resources to review your wonder at the birth of our Savior.· Dan Crabtree has some interesting insights into the subject of racism and why believers should turn to the Bible rather than the culture for the answers.

How God’s Word is your best help in the fight for purity.

Is conservatism being changed from within?

Self-worship, the newest “old” religion.

When the church has depended on the state for an easy right and wrong determination, what does it do when the culture throws off morality?

Regarding the impact of the transgender movement, the church's best response might well be to ask questions to expose the metaphysical assumptions "supporting" the claims of transgenderism.

What our eyes see, minds engage with, and ears hear all have a significant impact on us. How should we respond to these worldly influences? See what this week's Excellent Resources have to say about it.

What is it about God's name that makes taking it in vain one of the prohibitions in the Ten Commandments? Or how about figuring out how to respond when you're illogically accused of being racist? Then there's also the temptation to indulge in "worst case scenarios." What attitude should we have toward potential difficulties and trials? Explore these questions in this week's Excellent Resources.

Innocent until proven guilty...until our social order disintegrates. It has happened over and over throughout history. What can we do?

"Most friendships among professing believers cannot bear more than a single offense." This has a huge impact on our body of believers. How do we learn to deal with offense?

When life on earth is over, what of all important things will be the most important? The answer to that is what should be important now.

Your favorite Christian Facebook page might be anything but.Submission isn't just something for women to do.Biblical principles for marriage are generalized. We need to pray for the wisdom for how to apply them.Don't miss any of these enlightening articles.

Ever wonder why it's important to join a church? Or why Christian ethics matter? Do you search for the one thing you need to live a fulfilled life? Find the answers in this week's Excellent Resources!

This week's Excellent Resources delve into what Satan can and can't do, why those in Christ must focus on putting sin to death, and how we can engage social media in a godly fashion. You don't want to miss these!

9/11 is the day that a lot changed for the world. Lisa Beamer tells us about her husband, Todd's, actions that day that saved an untold number of lives. Events in the Muslim world since then might be resulting in more openness to the gospel. And find out what Joni Eareckson Tada has learned about suffering—something that applies to us all.

What happened in Afghanistan has been all over the news. Three aspects to consider are how Islam views the Bible, 9 things about the Taliban, and how God's sovereignty is apparent for the Afghan church.