Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith (Hebrews 12:1–2). On our recent trip to Prague, we visited the…
Have you ever had so much on your plate that you did not realize the extent of it? You keep carrying it all until the plate becomes so heavy it cracks. For me, it’s Level-Up Conference time so there are many moving parts, but I am also trying to get ahead in school by a…
There is no escaping the hurricanes of life that can blow in unexpectedly. Illness, deaths of loved ones and betrayal can happen in an instant. The uncertain times we are living in can turn us upside down. If it were up to me, I’d stay in bed and pull the covers over my head—but that…
My husband and I visited our son, daughter-in-law and new grandchild, William, over Easter weekend and decided to take a walk around their neighborhood. There’s a pond in their development, but in order to get to the walking path around it, we had to cross a field. That seemed simple enough, but halfway to the…
We all have insecurities but there are probably one or two that come out more often than others. Maybe you don’t think you’re good enough, pretty enough or smart enough. Whatever the case, the volume on our perceived shortcomings is turned up when we face a difficult situation. For example, the biblical patriarch, Moses, stuttered,…