As a child, I didn’t have huge dreams, impressive ambitions, or fancy prayers. I was a simple girl who looked forward to having a family and settling down in a ...
Mere days before Mom was to leave for the States, an ambulance arrived at our apartment to take my dad to the hospital where he was employed as an anesthesiologist. ...
Editor’s Note: What does Christianity look like? Chad Gibbs set out to travel the world and along the way he witnessed how Christians across the globe practiced their faith. In ...
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d.i.v.e means define, investigate, visualize, and embraceMaybe like author Jenifer Jernigan – author of Dive Deeper, astudy of the book of Ephesians from the Inscribed Studies collection – you are ...
Don’t forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you’re born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself. ~ Paula Heller GarlandWhat kind of ...
Devotional books are terrific for so many reasons (let me count the ways!), but if you’re like me, the main reason I love devos is because, even though I’d love ...
He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He refreshes my soul. — Psalm 23:2-3During Christmastime we find ourselves tempted to abandon Christlikeness in ...
Craig and I have had a lot of fun together over the years. But those fun times didn’t just happen. We’ve had to be really intentional in how we spend ...
God often uses waiting as a crucible in which to refine our character. Perhaps the prophet Isaiah realized this when he wrote,They that wait upon the lord shall renew their ...
Be Clear about “You” and “I”Any good confrontation takes into account that two people are involved. This sounds obvious, but it really isn’t, and it is an essential part of ...
You know that mom at the grocery store? The one we all promise ourselves we’re never going to turn into? The lady yelling at her kids, causing a scene, and ...
We’ve all found ourselves in situations and seasons in which we wonder how long we will be stuck there.In “kid time,” certain seasons seemed like an eternity and were often ...
“Look at this verse,” my daughter, Laura, said to me, holding up her teacher’s manual for vacation Bible school. “How am I supposed to teach that to third graders?” She ...
Secrets Cause SicknessMany people today are living with an unknown and undiagnosed infection that’s silently growing inside them, causing them pain and suffering. They’re afraid to think about it, talk ...
Nothing comforts me more than knowing that Jesus completely understands how hard it is to walk around in these bodies, fighting our “head noise” with valiant attempts toward a faith ...