Faith

Pressure Cooker Promises

Home canning is a method of heating food in a pressure cooker in order to keep it edible for an extended period of time. It works because the trapped steam inside the cooker raises the temperature an ...

Etched Upon God’s Heart

A mother of five, relatively affluent, had trays of jewelry she loved to wear. When a favorite granddaughter graduated high school, her grandmother offered her any of her rings for a ...

The Greatest Reward

After a lifetime in education, self-proclaimed golf nut and middle school principal Chelsa Holder retired from working with children. Her parents lived into their nineties, she was healthy, and she ...

Party Piñatas Beware

A piñata is a party favor beyond compare. Normally made of papier-mâché or cloth, it is usually filled with candy treats, then broken for all to share. Everyone wants to be close ...

Just Believe

A number of years ago, a young mother in Arizona received disastrous news. Her young son had fallen from a roof onto a four foot section of rebar being used as a plant ...

The Sounds of a Falling Tree

There is an old question that some people like to ponder. If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one to hear it, does it make a ...

The Pincushion Heart

A tailor works with his fingers to create a masterpiece of sartorial beauty. From that first stitch in a new piece of cloth to the finished garment in all its glory, it takes a lot of effort before ...

Axiom Number One

We’ve all heard the phrase that some things are as certain as death and taxes. One is sure to come, and the other arrives every April ...

A Fixed Point in Jesus

When a farmer plows a field, it is easy to skew the plow sideways, getting the rows out of alignment. This wastes valuable crop land, creating pockets of unusable soil that will not be prepared to ...

Childlike Faith

Small children know the secret of trust. They may not know what trust is, but they practice it, ...

Our YAM God

A yam is not a sweet potato. The yam is a black-skinned root vegetable with bark-like skin, native to Africa and Asia. In parts of the United States, we use the words interchangeably, but they are ...

What We Cannot Keep

Life is a series of evolving moments, none of which can ever be recaptured or relived. Once we live through a day, we become different people, affected by our experiences. We are changed in minute ...

When God Says Jump

Some things just make sense in a certain order. Babies crawl, and then they stand and walk. We break a colt, and then we can ride it as an adult horse. We study our course material, and then we ace ...