Are you struggling?
Are you to your last thread on the rope, and you’re about to let go?
You’ve said your last nice thing, and you’ll snap on the next person who crosses you?
Whoa! That’s ...
Jim Koch and his wife, Lora, faced the ultimate diagnosis.
Cancer.
The Iowa couple had to face a heartbreaking choice. Lora needed surgery that would leave her body marred if she wished to ...
Your beautiful family, fractured by a divisive situation.
Your forever home, victim to a financial setback.
Your time with friends, taken by health and circumstance.
Even your attempts to rebuild ...
What horrors have impacted your life?
Childhood traumas? Pets lost? Families broken?
What still affects you today and robs you of a productive relationship with God?
What causes the firm ...
A map is nice sometimes.
Something to warn us of the construction zones, the potholes, the fallen tree across the road.
Or a phone call to let us know that our brother is angry that we missed ...
Stress Level: TEN!!
We’re to our collar bones with worry!
Climate change! Supply chain interruptions! Did they say RECESSION!?! Arrrgh! How are we going to survive!?!
Deuteronomy 28:11-12 gives ...
Every believer has those days when we need a power shot of Jesus.
We need reassurance that we are loved, that the message is still true, and that we stand on a firm rock.
Here are 3 promises that ...
Turmoil cuts our heart with knives of glass.
The core of who we are leaks from us onto those around us.
Call them tears, angry words, or acts of desperation, it’s obvious to those around us that ...
A good pillow.
Ah, now we’re talking comfort. Just to lie in bed with our head cradled in a cushion of comfort.
Or maybe that new pair of slacks, you know, the pair with the Comfort Stretch ...
Who hasn’t seen Pixar’s 2001 Monsters, Inc., an animated film that gave us a light-hearted look at the monsters that children imagine hiding in the dark?
“Animated,” we muse, “of course. ...
When car shopping, there are lots of cars out there. The choices are endless.
Blue or red? Convertible or fixed top? Manual or automatic? Cloth or leather?
The features we choose determine the ...
Protection No. 1:
“You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.” – Psalm 31:8
The camp of the enemy is not our home. We live surrounded ...
Fall is a time of reaping.
We head into the field, for it’s time to gather up the bounty of the summer’s labor, of our spring planting, of all the effort and expense we’ve invested in our ...
