I want to make my life count, I don’t want to walk in defeat. When I have moments, or days, of feeling defeated in life, when I am ready to wave the white flag, there are some things that help me get through it. These moments show me that I am clearly in need ...
Read More »Attention Parents: Is Your Christian Teen A “Poser”?
A recent study stated that today’s teens struggle with spiritual commitment. Kendra Casey Dean is a minister in the United Methodist Church, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of, Almost Christian. She proposes that teens are living out a “watered down” faith by serving a God whose ...
Read More »Our Hope: “Peace, Be Still!”
“Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still!’ And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.” (Mark 4:39, NKJV) We all have times when we crave only one thing…peace. Yet it evades us with a passion we cannot imagine. It seems like ...
Read More »Slipping Pearls: Finding Joy is Simple
“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of ...
Read More »Pleasing others destroys us. Please God alone.
Do you have someone or something in your life that makes you wonder if anything will ever be enough? Beware! We give up when it feels like nothing is ever enough. Feelings lie! Truth is, some people are impossible to please. Sometimes the greatest impossibility is to please ourselves. Christians ...
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