Jessica Brodie
When trials comes, it’s hard to escape the pain and suffering that usually follows, whether it’s physical pain or emotional and spiritual. Tears may course down our cheeks, while loneliness, anguish, ...
Anne Peterson
“This is going to shock you, but I’m getting a divorce,” the letter read. She was right, I was shocked. My sister and her husband had been married for 10 years, with three beautiful boys, and they we...
Liz Kanoy
The Burden of DepressionDepression is real … the feelings are real, the pain is real, the burden feels heavy. Depression affects all different kinds of people—people who have enough and people who don...
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Words can be hard to find when you're drowning in the sorrow and pain of loss. Borrow these prayers for grief and begin your own honest conversation with God....
Pamela Palmer
The grief journey is a significant time in someone’s life when they need people to support them and provide love, care, and encouragement. As a believer, when we speak to a grieving person, it is impo...
Sometimes when a New Testament writer quotes the Old Testament, the two passages do not match precisely. Is the New Testament writer misquoting the Old Testament? Or is there another explanation?...
To see what fruit pleases the Lord, read the Word with the sole intent of identifying every action verb—those "good works" that both Jesus and His disciples practiced....
Pamela Palmer
God blesses the family model, and He has orchestrated having children. Therefore, it can be particularly painful when a woman is not able to have children. Some women are unable to conceive, while oth...
Heather Adams
In His goodness, God wants to ease our disappointments, allay our fears and soften our grief. And one of the ways He does that is through Scripture. The book of Psalms in particular shows us God’s hea...
Brian Croft
Opening a funeral service can feel as awkward as those first words you speak to the family who has just lost their loved one. Yet because of the attentiveness people give in those moments, we must sei...
Sheila Alewine
I am so grateful that my earthly father had trusted the words of our Heavenly Father. He had beheld the Son and believed, and now, all the promises God made have come to their full experience for him....
With the first commandment, God was establishing the fact that He is our God and was showing us His place in our lives......
Aaron Berry
Being “poor in spirit” does not mean having a spirit of abjection or wallowing in misery. While it is appropriate for us to have no misconceptions about our own spiritual depravity apart from Jesus, i...
Meg Bucher
Attributes represent qualities, characteristics, or properties that contribute to the way we see or know something or someone. Our Triune God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one. He reigns o...
Micah Maddox
While yes, God knows everything, it’s good sometimes to remember how far God’s love, mercy, and grace extends. There is no limit to the goodness, the healing, the hope, the saving of Jesus....
Heather Adams
With time, and lots of support, I’ve figured out that focusing on and celebrating what’s most important about this season helps me navigate the holidays with gladness rather than dread....
Melissa Henderson
When reading or hearing the words ‘He restores my soul’, a sense of peace and comfort can be found. ...
Meg Bucher
When Jesus taught His disciples the famous Lord's Prayer he included the line "give us this day our daily bread." Food and physical nourishment are crucial for life, but was that all Jesus was talking...
Heather Adams
When we are going through difficult circumstances, it can certainly be challenging to set our minds and hearts to give praise. But passages like this remind us that God is our Rescuer and Comforter, w...
Micah Maddox
Over and over we see stories and verses that bring us back to the same place. Some call it peace. Some call it perseverance. Some express it as strength beyond their mind. But all of these things po...