Chantel 3 Minute Read It’s been years now since I started keeping a mental joy journal- a running list of the things in life that made me happy, that made my cup overflow, that brought my heart joy and made me thankful to be alive. Sometimes my lists are filled with obvious things. Sometimes it is filled with little…
Chantel 3 Minute Read Have you ever seen a giant, or perhaps you’ve heard it noised about the camp that “there be giants in the land”? Let me tell you, it is all too true. There are giants out there, and they will get you if you don’t watch out. I rather think that the giants I see might…
Ashleigh Baker 7 Minute Read I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages. But marriage is…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read One Sunday morning, a hard-boiled egg walked into a small Baptist church. It was cleverly disguised to look like a girl in a flowered dress with long, reddish-brown hair, and no one suspected the truth, least of all the egg itself. I know, for I was the egg. Oh, I looked so perfect on the…
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute I sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, opened my Hebrew Bible to the Jerusalem postcard marking my place, and began to read: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah… Three words in, I stopped. I was reading Isaiah 61. Which meant that despite all the debate about whether first century Jews…
Lanier Ivester 6 Minute Read The one thing that people invariably ask me when they see my sheep for the first time is, “Can you really tell them apart?” I never cease to be amazed and tickled by this. It’s like asking a mother of a blonde-haired brood if she really knows who’s who. I want to laugh out loud…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Melissa C. . “Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.“ –James 1:12 Fear. We are all well-acquainted with him, as much as we would love to bar him from even…
Guest Author 2 Minute Read by Deb, from the IDD Blog For some reason, I just don’t use umbrellas. I don’t really know why. It’s not that I have a fetish for eyeliner and blush running down my wet cheeks. Or that I enjoy my hair resembling my dog John’s on bath day. I just don’t use them. If I’m…
Gretchen Louise 1 minute Our new pastor is preaching through Philippians. He said the first time he preached through Philippians it took him just a couple months. He’s been here over a month and we’ve covered the first twenty-one verses. It’s refreshing to have some old-fashioned verse-by-verse teaching. Give me that over a topical sermon any time! The topics…
Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read by Elisabeth A. August 20, 2007 For about four years now, I’ve been making forays into the dense, confusing, nearly impenetrable world of the Hebrew Bible. I started out easily enough: with each English word conveniently underneath the Hebrew, I was practically led by the hand through many of the Psalms. Then I moved on…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read by Elizabeth D. “I don’t think Edmond would have had a chance if he had fought Trumpkin twenty-four hours earlier. But the air of Narnia had begun working upon him ever since they arrived on the island, ad all his old battles came back to him, and his arms and fingers remembered their old skill. He was…
Ashleigh Baker 5 Minute Read It had been “one of those” mornings.It was the middle of December–Christmastime. Things were crazy. Everything from the past two months seemed to have hit me that day–my newborn, my husband’s surgery, a trip to Colorado, Christmas preparations, and a deployment date looming in the near future. This particular day was filled with a million…
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