Natalie Nyquist 4 Minute Read February 1 – March 31. Those dates did not begin as my Bible reading schedule but as I finished up Revelation Monday morning I thanked God for the tremendous blessing of my first (of many!) journey of reading through the entire Bible in 60 days. Only God knew the unbelievably perfect timing for this venture….
Chantel 2 Minute Read I think this might be the age of “someone else will do it”. I think it might be the age where we don’t think we can. It’s not that we don’t want to do anything, it’s just that we believe that somebody else would do it better. Maybe they would. But nobody does. God…
Caroline Rose Sanders 2 Minute Read God’s Gifts. We’ve all heard them talked about and we’ve all talked about them. “My family, the right to worship, good health,” are common answers. These are special things never to be overlooked. Maybe you’d say “Financial stability” or “A good education.” These too are great. But the Bible says: “Every good gift and every…
Katherine Holman 10 Minute Read I have been pulling, pushing, running away from, going around, skipping through, standing still, and racing with God my whole life. It wasn’t until a few short years ago I started walking with God. Yet even after giving my life to Christ, the concept of an ongoing journey with God was a challenge. I had spent…
Elisabeth Adams 7 Minute Read Human nature is the original fake. In fact, our moral frailty is one of the sturdiest constants of history: a fascinating and discouraging thought, isn’t it? Modern advertising’s common use of words like ‘genuine,’ ‘real,’ and ‘actual’ clue us in to the fact that it’s much easier and cheaper to make something that’s not real….
Lanier Ivester 2 Minute Read January is an excellent time to reaffirm our priorities and desires for the kind of life that we want to live. In this yearly assessment of past projects and future hopes it is of great value to ask ourselves the striking question that Wesley’s Methodists were wont to probe one another with: How is it…
Lanier Ivester 3 Minute Read When I was fifteen, I decided that I needed more consistency in my devotions. So, I resolved to spend a certain amount of time in God’s word every single day. And I mean every single. Those of you perfectionists out there can appreciate, perhaps as no one else can, just how tenacious I was in…
Lanier Ivester 3 Minute Read I often feel so completely unequal to the dreams and visions that God stirs in my heart. That is, until I remember that my best bet is to continually pray that I would be ‘small enough and weak enough’ that He could actually use me, rather than bumbling around in His way in my own…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read Every one of us is in the business of being ambassadors for Jesus to someone who doesn’t know Him as well as we do: younger siblings, perhaps, or a struggling friend. I don’t know about you, but every time I try to be an ambassador, I learn at least as much as I teach. Take…
Jeannie Pederson 2 Minute Read A dear friend of ours, a homeschooling father of eight, was driving down an icy road in central Illinois. Lord, he prayed, show me the brevity of life. About that time he came to a crossroad. A big brown UPS truck was also approaching the intersection, so our friend put on his brakes. The van…
Elisabeth Adams 2 Minute Read It’s frustrating trying to find God’s will. Especially as a phlegmatic, I tend to see decisions as battles to be gotten through, not adventures. I’m wondering if part of the confusion comes because God has so many ways to communicate with us, and it’s easy to expect He will always use the same medium that…
Melinda 3 Minute Read When talking about God’s calling on my life, I immediately think of Eric Liddell and what he said about his calling: “When I run, I feel God’s pleasure.” It is something that I look for in my own life. What kind of work have I done that I feel God being pleased at in my…
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