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Wednesday is the 23nd anniversary of 9/11/2001. I was 23 when I was at ground zero on that day. I must say there…
Please pray for Muslims to meet Jesus during Ramadan. Ramadan started 4 weeks ago on March 10 and it ends this Tuesday evening…
Ramadan starts tonight, March 10 and ends in 4 weeks on the evening of April 9. It is the month of the Islamic…
Another year completed! Another 365 days filled with the all-embracing moments of what truly makes a year complete. From the fresh scent of…
Something happened … we went from a very comfortable-typical American-Christian-homeschool (Classical Conversations)-boating-dirt biking-mountain biking-camping type family to something different. We went from living…
I met Matt shortly after I moved to Ventura, California. A friend of mine was staying in his spare bedroom for a month…
After 16 years pastoring a church in England, Belinda and I never imagined we would wake-up one day in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, a…
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians…
Everybody talks about waiting for this and waiting for that, and although waiting can be painful, and quite honestly never ending, I have…
One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night. Luke 6:12 I always…
I was born in Nigeria. I first began to grasp the understanding of Christianity through the eyes of PURPOSE. Your purpose as a…
We all sail on the seas of life. Similar to that of the vast ocean, which can be serene, turbulent, unpredictable, or an…
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure… Hebrews 6:19 Let me tell you about the hope of…
My hand was strumming with vigorous intensity, my voice resounding with a passionate plea to experience God, that familiar feeling came over me…
I once heard that “Friends know the songs in our hearts and will sing them back to us when we’ve forgotten the words.”…
He’s got the whole world in his hands, he’s got the whole world in his hands! If you grew up in church, you…
Life has been a lot of things in recent months, but consistently, it’s been tough. The past 18 months have been a long…
This past week leading up to Easter, I’ve tried to read the Easter story every day and look for something new that I’ve…
On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened…
Today, I pulled up to a familiar scene; on the side of the road was a woman holding a sign with her gaze…
For the beginning of this Fruitful Story, you may want to first read Teresa Ku-Borden’s LIVING IN GETHSEMANE This second Fruitful story by Teresa is excerpted…
I’m a millennial. I’m currently writing this on my MacBook Air, drinking a great cup of coffee, sitting on a daybed in the…
We’ve lived under some “real” persecution. When I think of some of the situations my husband and I have lived through over the…
Next Sunday is a day in the USA designated to celebrate the people who carry us into the world: our mothers. My mother is…
Can you believe we’re here and doing this? During the past five years, my husband David and I have looked at each other often…
Every time we meet on this middle eastern university campus, we stop at the kiosk for three brimming paper cups of sweet mint…
Tables… We have them in our homes, schools, work places. We fight to get a good space at one in a cafe and we…
“Move along, sister!” the police officer was firmly instructing me. I was standing in front of a scene I’d only ever heard about…
This year, Easter is celebrated today by Western Christians and on next Sunday by Orthodox Christians around the world. All around the world, the words “He…
It was in a small auditorium filled with second year college students that I met the little boy named Charlie who would change…
What are your plans now? This question greets me nearly every day. It’s not a bad question at all. In fact, it is…
I’ve been in Kenya a week. To be exact, 7 days and six hours. I’ve barely even scratched the surface of all that…
We were startled awake in the middle of the night by the persistent buzz of an iPhone going off near our heads. My parents…
If you knew that there was just “one thing” you could do that would impact everything else in your life and bring about…
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