“We have started to accept once more that our life is not our own and God has altered our path once again.” These were the words of a monk right after the severe earthquake that recently struck Italy. Surely, indeed, there is an element to life that goes beyond our ...

Nature is a God-given source of peace—when we focus on the right things. Consider the Golden State of California, with its dessert climate of unique flowering plants such as the bird of paradise—as colorful as a tropical bird and shaped like one as well. Dark mountains rise up around many ...

On November 8th, something huge in going to happen in the United States of America.  For many of us it is the day we will vote for the next president of our country.  Not only that, but many others will be elected into important positions as well, who will go ...

What are you chasing after more of? Time with God, money, people, or possessions? When you begin to experience stress, fatigue, and a feeling of being burdened, it’s time to pull back and reevaluate. Oftentimes, we take on too much that God has not called us to, and we take ...

When I go to write, I have so many ideas that flow through my mind.  What should the topic be and how should I approach it?  I also think it’s good to have a theme, not only to be colorful, but to put things into perspective.  So today I’m going ...

He is the reason we are free for forever from sin and death. Yes, he took care of death and all of sin for all time. We have heard it so many times He became sin and death for us.  There is a line from a Phillips, Craig and Dean ...

Let’s talk about difficult people. Know any? Everyone does and if you don’t, let me tell you, you’re the only person in the world. I say that with all due respect. Just this morning, I was mulling over the difficult people in my life, struggling with the ever niggling “what ...

What many Christians believe to be the inspired Word of God is now sixth on a list of 10 books considered to be “…most challenged and called to be banned in libraries,” in the words of Christian Post reporter, Stoyan Zaimov, because of its content and appropriateness. It has been ...

In June, I will celebrate my second anniversary with my wonderful, loving, devoted husband.  In two short years of marriage, large trials have loomed before us, and it is by the grace of God that we have weathered them all. At the start of 2016, we welcomed our beautiful daughter to ...