Several years ago, returning from a trip, I stepped inside the front door and felt like I had walked every one of the four hundred miles I had just driven. I had spoken six times in four days, and had driven through four different states to get where I needed to go. I pulled into…
Fiction Friday: Denise Hunter
Editor’s note: It’s Fiction Friday! Today we are sharing with you two book series by Denise Hunter that are perfect for summer days by the pool, the beach, or the lake. In case you’ve not fallen in love in a Denise Hunter novel yet, here’s a little bit from her bio: Denise Hunter is the…
You’re Invited to The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi OBS
Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. — Psalm 119:105 The Old Testament was written in ancient Hebrew. The New Testament was written in ancient Greek. We have to understand what the Word of God actually says in order to understand how to apply it to our lives…
100 Days to Brave: You Can Be So Brave
You’re invited! We are launching Summer Book Club for the first time ever! We will be reading Annie F. Downs’s awesome new devotional 100 Days to Brave together and would love for you to join us in a journey towards courage, faith, confidence, and a deeper walk with Jesus. What if we were brave? What could happen?…
Loving My Fire Kids
Somewhere between Heaven… and burning in hell. She doesn’t believe in God. At least that’s what she tells me. Heidi is so much like me it’s scary. No, not in that way… I do believe in God. But she’s like me in the way that she questions everything and analyzes life to the nth degree.…
100 Days to Brave: Just Start
Join now Sometimes, life feels a little too ordinary and understated. We go about our days as if nothing meaningful could ever happen to us. We’re held back by fear and what if’s and we decide that we’ll never be able to live the life that we actually want. We decide that we aren’t brave. What…
Follow Me: Un-dragoned by Jesus
NAKED PEOPLE As you read through the biographies of Jesus, you repeatedly find Jesus leaving His home and searching for people who weren’t living the lives they were created to live. Every time he bumped into these people, Jesus looked at them and said something to the effect of, “This isn’t what you were meant…
Depression: Fighting Dragons
Editor’s Note: In the news recently, we’ve seen tragedies unfold, celebrities succumb to suicide, and our hearts have broken for the loss of those brilliant and creative, valuable lives. Pastor Jim Burgen reminds us in this excerpt of his book No More Dragons, “Jesus understood, and still understands, depression.” If you need if you’re in a…
Formation of Women
What are the odds of this? I am the oldest of four kids, and only the youngest is a boy. I have only girl cousins on both sides of my family. I just have nieces, no nephews, and my oldest niece has… you guessed it: two daughters. What in the actual world? My whole life…
Every Reason to Laugh
True to God’s word, Sarah had a baby boy, Isaac. Can you just see her in her traveling desert nursery? Layers of sheepskins overlapping, white and resplendent on a bed covered by a breezy gauze canopy. Sarah and Isaac lying together face-to-face, her aging lips kissing his plump ones, her sinewy fingers caressing his, fresh…