Forty years ago today I sat in the back of my family’s 1967 VW Minibus parked alongside the Intracoastal Waterway a few miles north of the Kennedy Space Center. My dad had awakened us at zero-dark-thirty to make the hour trek from our home to Titusvill …
Yesterday on his blog, Randy Alcorn answers a question from a young couple who are $100,000 in debt and wondering about how much, if any, they should be giving to the church. The couple acknowledges that they are “reaping consequences from bad c …
Read Parts 1 and 2 of this series. As a (mostly) dateless single for nearly a decade, making choices in my personal life that would benefit a future relationship wasn’t always on my mind. For example, I should be a way better cook by now. But the busyn …
If you’re a Christian between the ages of two and 102, you probably have some shades of legalism in the way you live out your faith. If you’ve been a Christian most of your life, you’re probably even more guilty of this than most. And if you gre …
A friend of mine sent me this link a couple of weeks ago, accompanied by the comment, “When I was in high school, I thought I was so ugly that I never was in pictures and I totally regret it.” She hated camera lenses. She hated the way she looke …
The other day I was walking through the mall during my lunch hour. As I headed toward the door of a department store on the way out to my car, I heard whistling. Not a shrill, catcall-like whistle, but a warbling, birdsong-like whistle. After a …
The other day I was talking with a good friend of mine and she congratulated me on my months-old relationship with a godly guy. She said, “I can genuinely say that I am happy for you. That’s not true of everyone.” She proceeded to tell me of a f …
I’m a glass half empty kind of girl. In a recent devotion time here at Focus, the speaker asked the glass half empty people to raise their hands. I was the only one out of a group of thirty that raised my hand. Liars. (Did I mention I’m a little …
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