By Javan Rowe Is it possible to have a thankful spirit when facing our worst, most frightening situations? When life’s hardships wear us down and block our forward progress, can we still be grateful? There was a time I found thankfulness toward God difficult because I felt let down. I graduated from college with […]
By Larry Jones I will never look at people who find a way to serve God in their suffering the same way again. You can learn a lot from a tick. Three years ago I was diagnosed with Lyme disease, a bacterial infection passed on by deer ticks. I failed to detect the […]
By Steven Clark Goad We know the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time (Romans 8:22). How can we rejoice in the Lord when we’re in constant pain? Is it possible to stay cheerful and positive in the middle of unremitting suffering and […]
By Simon Presland Josephine, 56, reaches out her hand. “Come on TerriAnn. It’s time for your breathing treatment.” The two walk together with Josephine—or Jo as she’s often called—leading the way and TerriAnn duck waddling down the hall toward her bedroom. TerriAnn has cerebral palsy and brain stem dysfunction caused by premature birth, as […]
By Steven Wyatt I am writing these words three days after packing up the house my wife and I had made our home. Cindy passed away in early 2010 after a courageous but also very expensive battle with metastatic breast cancer. Compounding our already difficult economic woes was the fact that the beautiful, master-planned […]
