One of the first birthdays I spent with my husband Touré happened when he was just my boyfriend. Because I was still living in Texas and only visiting him in ...
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all ...
At some point, you’ve probably realized it’s not just the problems and challenging people surrounding you that rob your life of joy. Like everyone, you’ve been wounded and developed patterns ...
Editor’s note: It’s Fiction Friday! Today we are sharing with you two book series by Denise Hunter that are perfect for summer days by the pool, the beach, or the ...
Several years ago, returning from a trip, I stepped inside the front door and felt like I had walked every one of the four hundred miles I had just driven. ...
You’re invited! We are launching Summer Book Club for the first time ever! We will be reading Annie F. Downs’s awesome new devotional 100 Days to Brave together and would ...
Somewhere between Heaven… and burning in hell. She doesn’t believe in God. At least that’s what she tells me.Heidi is so much like me it’s scary. No, not in that ...
NAKED PEOPLE As you read through the biographies of Jesus, you repeatedly find Jesus leaving His home and searching for people who weren’t living the lives they were created to ...
True to God’s word, Sarah had a baby boy, Isaac.Can you just see her in her traveling desert nursery? Layers of sheepskins overlapping, white and resplendent on a bed covered ...
As I read [the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John repeatedly] that month, I kept thinking back to one of the most beautiful depictions of the Gospel ever given ...
Lord, I’m choosing to believe that You can and will redeem the years I have spent in my pit.In our Christian subculture, we think a pit of sin is the ...
You know Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride? Surely you do. Man, I hope you do. That Julia, goodness gracious, she’s the cutest. But she’s a tiny bit of a head ...
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; ...
Certain life-altering scar sources lie deep in our beings. These painful injuries — not surface blemishes of differences or health issues — require careful and compassionate consideration. A few years ...