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How to Remain Strong During Hard Times

I don’t remember the first time I ran. My mom told me that when I was still in diapers in the church nursery, I would spend the whole time running around in circles. The other children would follow me, but eventually stop as their legs grew tired. But …

The Girl Who Got Pulled Around by Her Ponytail

The other day at the bus stop, I saw a woman take her daughter by the ponytail, pull up, and force her to move down the sidewalk. As the girl walked forward, she tried to reach up and pull her mother’s hand away, to no avail. As the little girl cried a …

So Thankful God Said No

A few years ago, God answered a prayer of mine and finally said yes to my request for the Big Thing. It doesn’t really matter what the Big Thing was — maybe it was healing, a financial breakthrough, a spouse, a job, or some other change in circumstance …

Maintaining Hope in the Lord

If you haven’t read Suzanne Gosselin’s excellent article, “Why You Should Keep Hoping for Marriage,” go read it now. Seriously, go read it, and I’ll wait right here. OK, here we go! Suzanne reminds us that “[t]he key to staying hopeful despite discoura …

How I Make Too Much of Man and Too Little of God

by Hope Johnson It’s 1:00 a.m., and a familiar fear keeps me awake. I reach for my phone for the 15th time, checking to make sure that my alarm clock is actually set. In college, I only worried about sleeping in on exam days. But now that I have a “rea …

What Is Stress?

Stress. It’s a word I hear a lot these days. Whether from youth, young adults, friends or family, both in the church and outside, it seems like everyone I know is stressed, anxious or worried about something. My question is why. Why are we stressed if …

Give Your Heart an Easter Soak

Easter is a great time to pause and think deeply about what our Lord and Savior accomplished for us through His death and resurrection. Life gets busy, and our souls often get weighed down with the busyness of life. We all need daily times to let the t …

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