So begins the second act in the story of Ruth. The widowed Ruth accompanied her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to Bethlehem, from…

I lay awake, reviewing the well-trod territory of a devastating betrayal with life-changing consequences. Years before, a work…

Karen Grant takes us into her own journey of experiencing betrayal, which is appropriate for the Daily Treasure audience. So many of us know what it is to…

How can my heart be glad though? How can my whole being rejoice? How can I find joy now that my husband is gone? Sometimes it all feels…

I have a tendency toward depression. I have experienced three significant times in my life when I needed to take medication to help…

This is my favorite verse in the Psalms. “The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” The lines…

In suffering, there is a choosing. You choose whether the Lord will be your portion and cup or if you will run after another god, another idol. There…

Another part of being preserved came from the community of believers around us. The day Mike and I learned he had internal melanoma with a terminal …

In January 2013, our world was rocked with a diagnosis of internal melanoma with no external site. My husband was given 6-12 months…

 “Mike has been diagnosed with deadly melanoma. He has been given 6 – 12 months to live.” My friendship with Sherry Kendrick began over…

If we were watching Mary’s newsfeed in this day and age, we would see there was an utter blackout in information from the time Jesus was twelve to thirty years of age.  Suddenly, as she activates her page, we are invited…

Have you ever lost one of your children? I am the mother of four boys and I have had this experience numerous times. One such time was at Disney World…

We are all-too-familiar with the scene in the above Scripture, as it has been a major piece of the Christmas story.  However, two words jump right off the page that are often missed in the familiarity of the content—“flee” and…

Yesterday, we got to peer into the life of an ordinary young girl who willingly submitted to an angel’s extraordinary request. Her response: “Be it done…

I have always been fascinated with Mary the mother of Jesus. Not only because she is a notable figure in the Christmas story, but rather because I believe she is one of the most misunderstood and underestimated women in the Scriptures…

I am so eager to introduce you to Andrea Maher, author of Slammed, Overcoming Tragedy in the Wave of Grief. I met Andrea after…

How many of us miss Christmas, but not just Christmas, how many of us miss the joy of following the real star of Christmas…

This promise confronted me with a choice. There was only one treasure I wanted - our son, Mark. Since I knew…

While others eagerly anticipate the arrival of long-distance family members with hopes of recreating the simple joys of Christmas traditions, some…

The Star of Bethlehem, well, we don’t know if it was a star, a comet, or even an angel. But whatever it was, it led the Magi to Bethlehem…