by Cara Luecht People are leaving the Church in record numbers, and they are not being silent about their reasons. With terms like “deconstructing” and “exvangelical” they are letting the Church know that they are unhappy with the direction the Church is taking on any...
By Mike Sollom In those dreadful days and nights as Mike collided with the morbid memories of his son’s suffering and death—and the unbearable ache of Jim’s absence—he needed a way to describe the anguish of his heart. So, he found a spiral-bound notebook and wrote....
Gators, Guts, & Glory: Adventures Along the Florida Trail By Lauralee Bliss Wander on the wild and humorous side of adventure with long distance hiker Lauralee Bliss (trail name Blissful), hiking the 1,100-mile Florida Trail from Big Cypress National...
Mountains, Madness, & Miracles: 4,000 Miles Along the Appalachian Trail by Lauralee “Blissful” Bliss In this look into a lifelong dream of adventure, Lauralee Bliss – or “Blissful” (her trail name) – reflects on the 4,000 mile journey she undertook with her...
Stone by Stone: Tear Down the Wall Between God’s Heart and Yours by Jasona Brown How would your life change if you knew in your bones that God looks on you not with disappointment, anger, or tepid tolerance, but with joyous love and delight? Jasona Brown...
No Plan B: Discovering God’s Blueprint for Your Life by Nelson Hannah What if you discover that you are working the wrong plan for your life and failure is imminent? What if the very plan you are working so hard to achieve doesn’t really exist and has never...
Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear the Shepherd’s Voice by Joanne Hillman Listening Prayer is a Bible-based method of hearing God’s precious voice, so relationships can be healed and personal struggles overcome. The simple technique presented is so appealing...
Guard Your Heart: by Audrey Phillips Jose Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Very poetical, but how practical? From this verse in Proverbs 4 (and three others keeping it in context), we have four pieces of advice for guarding our heart by being...
by Gail Kittleson Many of us long for rest, as the author did while renovating an old house after her husband’s first deployment to Iraq. Yet a different hunger undergirded that desire: a hunger for wholeness. No fast track exists to a closer walk with God, but...
Finding Sarah, Finding Me by Christine Lindsay Sometimes it is only through giving up our hearts that we learn to trust the Lord. Adoption. It’s something that touches one in three people today, a word that will conjure different emotions in those...
Barn Doors by Emma Broch Stuart Hearing God’s voice in my life isn’t always easy. Sometimes He gives me a blank canvas and lets me paint to my heart’s content—as long as I stay within the boundaries of the canvas. When I feel Him leading me down a certain road, I...
Broken Umbrellas by Emma Broch Stuart It snowed the day of my grandson’s funeral. Pure grace blanketing dirty mounds of earth. Through my tears, my gaze fell on a sagging blue umbrella suspended over the head of a woman grieving our tiny loss with us. New...