Holidays mean parties, celebrations, and gifts galore … but the holidays can also be a time of pain, trial, and disappointment for many.
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Comfort and Joy
The countryside lay quietly under the thick darkness of the midnight sky.
Continually Before Me
Some years ago on a late-summer morning, I set off in the early dawn for a solitary walk on the wet sands of the Oregon Coast…
Given, Part 2
In the first installment of this article, I shared how the Lord awakened my heart…
Happy in Jesus
“Are you happy?” My friend Gerda asked the small, crying boy standing before her…
Given, Part 1
I simply couldn’t process the horror of it. Twelve years old and just becoming aware of the plight of orphans in our world…
Trusting the One Who Asks
I was just entering my teen years when I laid eyes on the most adorable pile of puppy-fluff I’d ever seen…
Tomorrow
It was a cool March evening, just days before my second child was going to be born. I rocked my son, Jude, looking…
The Power of the Cross
When I was twenty-two, I went through an incredibly mortifying experience. A pastor called me on the phone and…