By Betty B. Gray Once you have been to Haiti you never forget the unbelievable poverty. The first glimpse is really more than one can comprehend: the shacks people call home; families sleeping in shifts because there are not enough mats; streets filled with garbage; open sewers; overwhelming smells; naked, starving children lining the […]
By Michael C. Mack 1. What’s your all-time, favorite love song? If you’re willing, sing a few lines! Read 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; 7:1-4. 2. How would you describe Paul’s attitude and heart in these passages—wishful, needy, pathetic, defensive, compassionate? Why? 3. If 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 were a résumé, would you […]
By Sarah Robinson I decided to spend 30 days in focused prayer for my son. I went into it expecting all kinds of amazing things—namely, a perfect teenager who did just what I asked with a smile on his face. One who dutifully studied his Scriptures and his biology and took the time to […]
By Christy Barritt Stranger Raises $35K for Exonerated Prisoner When a Brooklyn man was exonerated after serving nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, a stranger felt a call to action. Alex Sutaru heard the story of Jonathan Fleming, who’d been freed from prison after a key piece of evidence […]
By Jamie Shafer Although Wendy Childress’ first visit to Colombia, South America, was short, its impact on her heart was lasting. On her blog she shares, “It all started in the summer of 2011. My oldest son, Caleb, and I went on a mission trip to an impoverished barrio nestled beneath the Andes Mountains […]
