I was born and reared in the deep south. Not just the deep-south, but born and reared in the Southeast Conference where every Saturday the game of football…

My husband and I celebrate 42 years of marriage this year. We met in college, became best-buds, and as our relationship blossomed into a…

We live in a world of words. So often the world can give empty words. The words in blog posts can leave one…

We had just moved to an unfamiliar city in an unfamiliar state and one that was just so, well, unfamiliar! God had called my husband to a church plant…

Living in the midst of a crazy, ancient polytheistic, Babylonian culture of idol worship, God is telling His people to “remember- stand firm and recall to mind”.

Think about it. We think all the time. In fact, we never stop thinking. As young parents, my husband and I knew the importance of teaching our children to think…

Connie Miller joins us this week as our guest writer. I met Connie through our national women’s ministry and was drawn to not only her…

The “scorch marks” in each believer’s life forever marked him or her, as though with a branding iron, as men and women learning to depend…

For the moment, one of our children is missing from us. No matter how hard we try to recapture the joy of earlier years, there is always the shadow…

We must remember, even in our pain, the greater vision. In our own grief for our son, it was difficult to see that greater vision. But God has taught us…

God has set eternity in every heart, a longing for the presence of God, and nothing else will truly satisfy (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Some people believe in…

Unlike those who don’t believe in God, our road is not back to the Garden of Eden, but forward. One should never…

The author here reminds us of the greatest suffering anyone has ever had to endure. In these verses, the pivotal event of human history—the shame and agony of…

Some days, this truth is what gets me through the broken places, especially when I see no way God can redeem the pain. I draw great comfort…

We can only imagine the wrenching emotion Abraham must have felt as he sadly approached the place chosen by God for this dramatic exhibition of his faith…

While Abraham’s faith was strong that God would indeed provide an heir, God still had work to do in Sarah’s heart. God sent three…

God had already kept many of His promises to Abraham: he was now wealthy, his name was at last respected, and his family had been…

While in Egypt, Abraham continued his downward spiral. As is so often the case with us, Abraham compounded his problems, getting deeper and…

In Canaan, God revealed more of His plan for the Patriarch’s family. Upon Abraham’s arrival in the city of Shechem, God told him, “To your…

Abraham, the Bible tells us, spent much of his life traveling. After he was called by God to leave his native land, Abraham simply moved…