God Looms Larger

By |2019-07-04T16:29:31+00:00July 7th, 2019|

Giles Kelmanson, a South African game ranger, described the incredible scene: two honey badgers battling a pride of six lions. Although outnumbered, the honey badgers refused to back down from ferocious predators ten times their size. The lions thought the kill would be simple, but video footage shows the badgers walking away with something like a swagger...

Present in the Storm

By |2019-06-18T12:20:00+00:00June 20th, 2019|

Fire swept through the home of a family of six from our church. Although the father and son survived, the father was still hospitalized while his wife, mother, and two small children were laid to rest. Unfortunately, heartbreaking events like this continue to happen again and again. When they’re replayed, so is the age-old question: Why do bad things happen to good people...?

Understanding Life’s Trials

By |2019-04-24T12:07:28+00:00April 29th, 2019|

My friend’s father received the dreaded diagnosis: cancer. Yet, during the chemo treatment process, he became a believer in Jesus and his disease eventually went into remission. He was cancer free for a wonderful eighteen months, but it returned—worse than before. He and his wife faced the reality of the returned cancer with concern and questions but also with a faithful trust in God because of how He saw them through the first time...

Hope Is Our Strategy

By |2018-12-19T15:22:01+00:00December 22nd, 2018|


A Safe Place

By |2018-11-26T14:00:33+00:00December 2nd, 2018|


Confident Hope

By |2018-11-05T16:16:40+00:00November 11th, 2018|

Dr. William Wallace was serving as a missionary surgeon in Wuzhou, China, in the 1940s when Japan attacked China. Wallace, who was in charge of Stout Memorial Hospital at the time, ordered the hospital to load his equipment on barges and continue to function as a hospital while floating up and down rivers to avoid infantry attacks. During dangerous times, Philippians 1:21—one of Wallace’s favorite verses—reminded him that if he lived, he had work to do for the Savior...

Dad at the Dentist

By |2018-10-30T14:13:53+00:00November 6th, 2018|


Compassion Fatigue

By |2018-10-29T16:18:54+00:00November 1st, 2018|

Anne Frank is well known for her diary describing her family’s years of hiding during World War II. When she was later imprisoned in a Nazi death camp, those with her said “her tears [for them] never ran dry,” making her “a blessed presence for all who knew her.” Because of this, scholar Kenneth Bailey concluded that Anne never displayed “compassion fatigue...”

Finding the Way Home

By |2018-08-17T15:13:14+00:00September 3rd, 2018|


Strength for Your Journey

By |2018-08-17T15:09:38+00:00September 2nd, 2018|
