Think You’re Bad with Words? God Can Still Use You.
As a young, fair-skinned boy growing up in North Africa, speaking was a point of struggle for me. I was more...
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A Place To Belong: YoPro Ministry
“5:35 p.m… I’m late,” I muttered to myself as I pulled onto the gravel road by the pavilion. I threw more...
10 Things We Learned From 50 Years of Marriage
It was the summer of 1972 when 18-year-old Irish-Catholic Shelly met 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran, Tom, who had just returned more...
I Walked Away From Church. Then God Came Running After Me.
“Only hypocrites go to church.” Andrew knew it wasn’t true, but the stinging words from his mother and stepdad met more...
The Last Word: How God Reached My Daughter’s Heart
I remember holding the invitation in my hand, praying about who to invite that year. It should have been a simple task. more...
Learning to Be A Mother, Remembering I’m A Daughter
It felt like the first day of school. As a former first-grade teacher, I was no stranger to the first more...
Lighting Up The Dark: Hope Is Rising in the Czech Republic
Perfect strangers become close brothers under unique circumstances. Athletes, soldiers, mothers, or trauma survivors could be perfect strangers, yet intimately more...
From Cafeterias to Creeksides: How the Greatest Adventures Begin on the Simplest Paths
Two years after first publishing The Bonny Lane Club, I found myself sitting in the cafeteria at my old college. Much of more...
Peace in the Storm: How One Family Learned to Let Go and Trust God
The shovel was green, with her name etched in bright red just above the blade. It was a gift more...
“Out of the Mouths of Babes”: Seeing Children The Way God Sees Them
At 13 years old, I wasn’t sure how to process how a child could cause more...