Editor’s note: Are you looking for a little more fun, joy, and spice in your marriage? Or a lot? Stephen and Misty Arterburn in their brand new book The Mediterranean ...
Holy SpiritOn the final day of the retreat, the prayer team called my mom to the front of the room. One of the leaders pushed her forward in her wheelchair, ...
Is there anything more wonderful than a new batch of books? I don’t think so! Friends, if you’re planning your reading list for Easter vacation with the family, or looking ...
We have some friends who have been married more than thirty years. In their mid-fifties now, they seem to enjoy all the blessings possible for a healthy married couple — ...
I’ll start at the beginning of the end. In September 2009, Daisy Love, my darling girl of five years old, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. It was a Monday, the ...
Editor’s Note: Hey there, OBS Friends! We just came through The Broken Way study together and our team loved it so much that we don’t want it to be over! ...
I used to hurry into the church twenty minutes late on Sunday morning. By the time I found a seat and settled into it, the worship and praise time was ...
Give a HootIf this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, ...
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. — Jon KrakauerThe first anniversary day of Candace’s disappearance fell on a Saturday, and when we ...
I’ve heard it said that Jesus was the first feminist.It’s not a bad line. The way He treated women was millennia ahead of His time. And not just Jesus.Historians think ...
Deliberately choosing the way we speak is essential to a lifetime of cherishing our mates. The early church father John Chrysostom urged husbands (speaking about their wives), “Never call her ...
Watch this Special Video Message from Lysa Just for Us!Jesus Could Have RunJesus knew the crushing heart feeling. He felt it. He carried it. He wrestled with it.And there was ...
The [Proverbs 31] writer… described in detail this virtuous Proverbs 31 woman. She is Wonder Woman and Mother Teresa wrapped up in a single package. She rises a good while ...
The Father Himself loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God. — John 16:27The trip was to be a reunion of sorts, a ...
FocusThen the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for Your servant is listening.’ – I Samuel 3:10CaptureAs a storyteller, I ...