Tag Archives: Hope

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 ...

“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 ...

  “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 ...

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 ...

Most of us are pretty tired of the way things are going in this world.  Times are hard for many, and it’s not looking like there will be any changes coming soon that will be to our liking. We are waiting for tomorrow, every single day.  It comes every morning, ...