Blogs

Avoiding Spiritual Hypoglycemia

Written by Courtney Houghton

I’ve learned spiritual lessons from my own struggle with type 1 diabetes. On July 23, 2014, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and checking my blood sugar became the No. 1 way I...

Don’t Lose Your Power

Written by Sherry Beilstein

Losing electricity doesn’t make for an ideal Mother’s Day. What can we learn from my “powerless” Mother’s Day? Have you ever lost power in your home? No...

Beware of the Spiritual Callus

Written by Kendrick Diaz

Calluses aren’t just on our hands and feet. Did you know that our minds can grow calluses too? My little brother is musically gifted. Without learning how to read sheet music,...

The Greatest “Choose Your Own Adventure”: How Will You Choose?

Written by Eddie Foster

We are presented with many choices every day regarding how we will think, speak and act. Though we have the free will to make whatever choice we want, should we? Remember “Choose...

What I Learned From Wild Blackberries

Written by Gabriella Kroska

Weeding my mom’s raised garden beds was a lot more challenging than I expected. As I got started, I realized that a wild blackberry patch had infiltrated the garden beds! Wild...

Maintaining Our Spiritual Goals

Written by Eddie Foster

Christians should have a great desire to grow and change. That’s why we often set spiritual goals for ourselves. As Christians, we often generate spiritual goals for ourselves. For...

A Lesson From Kate Spade

Written by Ellen Mills

Recent news of Kate Spade’s death showed that the perception and reality of her life were quite different. How might her death help us evaluate our own lives? I own a Kate Spade...

Abuse: Facing My Hardest Secret

Written by Lisa Dickey

One of the most terrible evils of this world can cause its innocent victims to endure fear and undeserved feelings of shame all alone. A survivor shares her story in hopes of helping others....

The Cancer Ward

Written by Bruce Gore

A cancer ward is one of the many places you can see sadness and futility on the faces of humankind. It’s a reminder of how much this world needs the only real and lasting solution—the...