Learning to Rejoice in Difficult Circumstances

Learning to Rejoice in Difficult Circumstances

The throbbing is real but intangible. Painful but unseen. It’s the shattering of a heart already broken experiencing one more journey in the wasteland. Have you been in this place before? In the same sort of circumstance where your dreams are dashed by reality...
Is One Thing in the Way of Your Relationship with Jesus?

Dare to Believe

“This is a Christian–one who dares to act as if God tells the truth.”  –Pastor Mark Bates His life reads like a Hollywood movie–the culmination of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, forced to seek refuge in a distant land, and then offering his...
Is One Thing in the Way of Your Relationship with Jesus?

Destination Jesus

The familiar ping of the phone alerted me to a new message. A hurting friend and I had been sharing our thoughts and discussing the razor-edged struggles of the hard in her life. A loved one had said things….done things. She wanted to know–could the relationship...