It’s to your advantage to seek the counsel of your pastor or elders.
Yesterday a great woman passed into glory. Elisabeth Elliot was 88 years old. Widowed twice (Jim Elliot, Addison Leitch), Elisabeth is survived by her husband, Lars Gren; daughter, Valerie Elliot Shepard; son-in-law, Walt; and eight grandchildren. I fi …
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 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 …
At what point does trusting in God become laziness, and at one point does putting in effort become doing something in your own strength?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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