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1. Your 2 Thess. 3:16 Shift From 'Runaway Bride' to Perfect Peace

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the movie Runaway Bride. Not only was this popular film shot in my native Maryland, in some ways I could relate to its storyline. It curves like that of broken humanity ...

Created on 31 January 2019

2. 4 Victorious Ways to Stand in the Face of Persecution

Are you in the midst of a great trial or moment of great persecution? Have you recently been mistreated and falsely accused? A 10-year fiery trial in my life has finally come to end where I experienced ...

Created on 22 January 2019

3. Holy Spirit's Antidote for Your Spiritual Exhaustion

One of my goals for the new year is to take the sweet gift of promised peace into every hour of every day. I am done living a life of overcommitted busyness that results only in frustration and a short-tempered ...

Created on 17 January 2019

4. Is Life Beating You Up? Let This Precious Truth Heal Your Soul

Shepherds were dirty, uneducated men with grime under their fingernails and sludge in their brains. There were a group of these shepherds one night, huddled around a fire in the inky, black of night. These ...

Created on 07 December 2018

5. Your Isaiah 9:2 Promise of Hope in Hard Times

You know what I was doing at 4:45 last evening? Setting the flameless candles. At 2:30 p.m., I rushed home from school, changed into work clothes and started pulling Christmas boxes out of the crawl space. ...

Created on 28 November 2018

6. Fulfilling Your Calling When God Is Silent

Have you ever felt confused about the future? Have you ever woken up with a sense of anxiety about the direction of your life? Do you want more for your life but feel lost in determining how to have more? ...

Created on 30 October 2018

7. 4 Choices to Help You Cultivate a Resilient Heart

Discouragement hits all of us at times. The disappointments and challenges of life leave us feeling drained and dismayed. We've all been there. The question is, how do we bounce back from discouragement? ...

Created on 29 October 2018

8. Your Isaiah 61 Encouragement to Persevere Under Trial

Remember the song, "Tall Oaks from Acorns Grow"? It's a cute children's song—one I hadn't thought of in decades ... until I began catching up on long overdue yardwork. For the past two years, circumstances ...

Created on 18 October 2018

9. Called as a Woman in Leadership? Follow These Bold, Biblical Examples

Women in leadership—what a trendy topic! Although I guess it would only be this trendy because we think it's something new and scandalous. Various societal systems of the past have implied that it's unsuitable ...

Created on 18 October 2018

10. The Secret to Powerful Peace in the Midst of Your Swirling Storm

During a recent trip, I held the arm of the flight attendant guiding me to my seat inside the airplane. "Here's your seat, Mrs. Eckles," she said. Not the Bulkhead Seat! After I settled in, I realized ...

Created on 05 October 2018

11. How Your Terrible Trials Can Become Your Teacher

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of." —Charles Spurgeon I agree with Charles Spurgeon: Trials are indeed a revelation. They are meant to be our teachers, ...

Created on 28 September 2018

12. What to Do When You Feel Stuck in a Waiting Season

Are you in a season of waiting? Perhaps you feel that your life is on pause or your dreams are on hold. Maybe you have prayed and fasted and have deeply desired a different reality, but you are living ...

Created on 06 September 2018

13. 3 Timely Tips From the Book of Job About Dealing With Difficult Circumstances

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. You can read Part 1 here: "How the Book of Job Can Help You Break Your Depression." The life of Job is truly epic: a rich man who loses almost everything, including ...

Created on 30 August 2018

14. 4 Joy-Filled Ways to Find Life in Your Time of Waiting

Life does not begin based on earthy relationships. You may be waiting to really live after you find that best friend, or spouse, or have your own children, or be part of a supportive work team or a gain ...

Created on 22 August 2018

15. 5 Spirit-Led Steps for When You Feel Like God Doesn't Care

Do you ever feel like God doesn't care? Someone says, "God is good." And you respond, "All the time!" And yet part of your heart isn't tracking. If God really cared, wouldn't things be better? What do ...

Created on 12 August 2018

16. Transforming Your Frustrating Wait Into the Most Fruitful Time of Your Life

Do you wait well? Not many of us do, so if you feel like an abysmal failure when it comes to the waiting game, you are certainly not alone. However, the truth is, everyone is waiting for something. Moms ...

Created on 26 July 2018

17. How You Can See God's Living Love in Life's Deepest Darkness

Some friends and I sat at a table in a local restaurant. "Hi Amy!" I said looking in the direction of my friend's 3-year-old. "Did you like your visit to Disney World?" She didn't answer. "Honey," her ...

Created on 17 July 2018

18. Why This Common Mindset Among Christians Is Totally Wrong

... ited! Get very excited about your trial because it is going to turn you into something better than you could have been without the trial. You are about to become a man or a woman of perseverance who no  ...

Created on 12 July 2018

19. Your Psalm 37 Way to Wait Without Going Crazy

Waiting is not my forte. Can you relate? Over the last few years I've been asking God to uproot a sense of hurry in my spirit and replace that with patience. Here's the thing: When you ask God something ...

Created on 18 June 2018

20. 3 Truths to Help You Soar When Life Stinks

"And you can now get 'Mature Manure,' the radio announcer said, "and you'll have the greenest grass ever." Mature manure? Who ever heard of that? But as odd as its name, so was its effect. It turns out ...

Created on 01 June 2018