MARKINC Ministries is committed to leaning into the pain of life experiences that often go unnoticed by the church and society in general. The Help and Hope audio library...

At a recent family reunion, my sister and I reminisced about our childhood family gatherings. Gayle asked, "Do you remember how old we thought our great aunts and uncles were?" I chuckled...

The ache in my chest refused to break. The grey skies matched my mood. Our sixteen-year-old son Mark's fatal car accident was a faint memory for most people but for the past three years...

Do you have questions about same sex attraction? Is it wrong? Is it ok? Are you struggling with same sex attraction personally? Is your child? Chuck and I recently had the privilege of asking...

Townville, SC (WLTX, WSPA) - The mother of Jacob Hall, the 6-year-old who died from injuries sustained in a school shooting in South Carolina, called her son a "angel" who...

The mother of a student at Townville Elementary School told CNN Greenville Affiliate WYFF that her daughter and classmates huddled in a bathroom. "Her teacher was shaken up. I know all the kids were...

Imagine you arrive as an immigrant in America, newly widowed, grieving the death of your infant daughter. You are  forty years old, alone in a foreign country and responsible for the care of your nine...

Writer's block. Five attempts at writing this week's blog with very little progress. And then I remembered finding a church newsletter, dated June 1983 as I cleaned out old files. There I found this article I wrote...

When I accepted the invitation to do a workshop for the Transformed Philadelphia Conference, I didn't remember how hard it is to prepare for such an event.  My topic is, "Living with Purpose on Purpose in the Afternoon of Life." As soon as I accepted the invitation...

God sent me a treasure of encouragement this morning, a gift designed to turn my heart toward Him and I am still stunned by its simplicity and potential for transforming this day from the mundane into the majestic....

Ten years after the fatal car accident that took the lives of our son, Mark, and his friend, Kelly, my search for help and hope continued. Grief is never ending, a constant companion that...

The hysterical young woman could not catch her breath. Ugly crying. Slowly, she obeyed my instructions to breathe in through her nose and out through her mouth. The tears continued to roll as she described...

We were newly-wed, twenty-one years old and in New York City for the Billy Graham Crusade School on Evangelism. One of the seminars was in an old city church and on the wall was a plaque with...

 "I need help!  My preacher husband is dead! We're out of money. The bill collectors are coming to enslave my two sons as payment for all of our unpaid bills.  Please, help me!" Though written thousands of years ago (2 Kings 4), this story, ripe with dread, need, and desperation…

A few days after the fatal car accident that took the lives of our sixteen-year-old son, Mark, and his friend, Kelly, a friend called to tell us that someone had placed two white crosses on the side of the road at the accident scene..

"Should we schedule the funeral right now?"  My startled response to Chuck's question lasted only a few seconds.  He had just bought me a large gardenia tree for Mother's Day.  Gardenias are one of my favorite flowers. Their beauty and scent are comfort food for my soul…

I was 18 years old and  thought I was in love.  My boyfriend was deployed to Germany and when he came home in December he wanted us to get married.  I would return to Germany with him.  I announced my plans to my father (I chose this moment carefully - my mother was away on a retreat).  Instead of putting his..