Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Denise J. Hughes My grandma’s TV sat on the floor, with me right in front of it. As a kid, I flipped channels for hours. And every so often, an old movie channel would show a stiff-legged monster with outstretched arms, staggering toward a screaming woman. Flip. Not interested. For whatever reason, the story…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read by Mystie Winckler Have you ever taken one of those online quizzes that will supposedly prove how educated or well-read you are based on how many books on their list you’ve read? Often we want to be able to check off those classic titles simply to be able to say we read them, to have…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Teri Lynne Underwood I’m a wife, a mom, a friend, a Bible teacher, a laundry-doer, a kitchen-cleaner, and a Basset hound wrangler. My life isn’t full of big experiences. It’s full of car lines and to-do lists. I’m guessing you can relate. Some days when I finally lie down in my bed, I wonder…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Rachel Zupke I got kicked out of church at age 17. Our new youth pastor wanted to talk to me about what was coming up for the fall after I’d spent the summer traveling around the country playing basketball for college scouts. I had missed most Sundays and Wednesdays due to tournaments and practices,…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Jennifer M. Lucas It’s 5:45 on a typical Monday morning. I’m behind on my Bible study. Three days behind actually, but who’s counting. The baby woke up early the first morning and I didn’t even have a chance to get started. Then, the next morning I hit the snooze button a few too many…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Sarah Mackenzie When I was ten, I won a big round of applause and a picture book about Dorcas at our church’s Bible study club. I was beaming with pride that day. I don’t remember how many memory verses I had mastered, but it was a lot, and I had outdone everyone else —…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Nneka Gerstle It was a stunning Amsale gown. I walked out of the dressing room, and everyone sighed wistfully. This was the wedding dress of my dreams. Did I mention it was $8,000? But so what? A wedding is supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime affair. Every girl deserves to feel like a princess on…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read by Olivia Sultenfuss “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by K.J. Tanner Friends of mine prayed for boys. They asked and begged and after twenty weeks, they lay prone on a table, abdomen gooey as tears of joy streamed down their faces. “It’s a boy!” the technician declared joyously. I cried not tears of joy, but one small tear of sadness. It’s not that…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Kathryn Ritchie Years ago, when my husband and I were engaged, we laughed about naming our first child Theophilus (from Luke 1:3 and Acts 1:1). We figured the weightiness of that name would destine him to great things! That is, if he could remember it and how to pronounce it! Can’t you just picture…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read I love books. When I start reading I become so absorbed that I may not even hear you calling my name.
It used to be a lot worse. I was a real book addict! I read so much I almost lived in my books and stories.
Guest Author 5 Minute Read For the first time in my life, I found myself wishing that I had been born to a different man. It was so painful, being the daughter of this one. He was so wise and sweet when he was sober, but he was so dark and different when he was bingeing.
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