A Fresh Perspective Jesus’s Invitation to Purpose and Fruitfulness in the Mundane by Julie Klein My gaze continues to stretch upward. My eyes settle upon a giant standing guard over my neighborhood nature trail—a living organism puzzled together by millions of cellulose fibers. It is a massive tree, expansive enough to support a substantial […]
And All the Doubters Prayed, “Help My Unbelief!” The Believer’s Guide to Seasons of Doubt by Adelaide Mitchell “Mom, what if there is no God?” My almost-teenaged son seems to save the heaviest questions for my nighttime routine of kissing him good night. You might think my reaction would be one of sorrow, disappointment, […]
Breadcrumbs from God How God Rescued Me from the Wilderness by Tera Balog “Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.” —James 1:21 The movement away from being aligned with God’s truth was gradual and deceptive, and before I knew it, I had spent over twenty years in a wilderness […]
Why I Can’t Get Enough of Mentoring God Brings Us Alongside Another Woman to Show Her She’s Not Alone by Sue Donaldson I was in my early twenties. As a new college grad starting my first whirl into the real work world, I was single and facing my career as a high school teacher. […]
Just an Ordinary Woman: Finding Abundance in Our Everyday Talents by Cara Blondo She was just an ordinary woman with ordinary talents. Yet these seemingly average talents impacted the lives around her so extraordinarily that, upon her death, friends stood around her weeping. Who was this woman? Her name was Tabitha (she was also known […]
This issue’s theme, Create, is intended to help you to reflect on God our Creator as well as on your own identity as a created masterpiece. […]
Healing doesn’t have to look the way everyone thinks or imagines it should look. It could be tiny steps each day. Healing isn’t always a straight-line process, but we can go to the Father every day to ask him for help, knowing he is with us on our… […]
Strategies to find rest and set boundaries so you can do what you are called to do. […]
Choosing to Rest Instead of Rush Slowing Down as Obedience Saying no was not something I once thought of as obedience. But isn’t everything I own the Lord’s, including my time? Often we ask God to open doors and he does, but then he may shut that same door later on and we don’t realize […]
Learning to hear God’s voice […]