How to Find More Treasure in the Dark Season. Let’s be honest. There are days when walking with Jesus doesn’t feel like victory songs and mountaintops. It feels like dragging your feet through gravel with lungs that can’t quite catch a full breath. Faith isn’t shiny in those moments; it’s Read more

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Finding Joy When Life Doesn’t Go as Expected When I first began writing Empty Nest Blessed: 60 Days to Finding Joy in the Empty Nest, I had no idea just how personal the message of joy in every season would become to me. I thought I was writing to encourage Read more

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How to Keep a Beautiful Melody of Hope Do you have a song playing through your mind right now?  My husband always has one, and as he moves about the house, he is usually singing a tune.  Often, the one running through my head is prompted by the one he Read more

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How to Hold Onto Hope When Doctors Find Cancer. “We found cancer.” The words no one wants to hear jolted me, and I was thankful to be sitting down. The doctor’s expression was grave as she reported that my routine colonoscopy revealed a malignancy in my colon. After kindly giving Read more

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How To Hold On To Hope While You Grieve For the past year and a half, the most emotionally challenging part of my week has been the time spent changing the sheets on my bed. Rev and I shared that bed for more than two-thirds of our lives. When we Read more

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How God Provides Surprisingly Better than We Expect By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place he was to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going. -Hebrews 11:13 When I read about Abraham’s faithful obedience, I’m reminded Read more

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Revealing Hope in the Midst of an Awesome Storm Psychologists have come up with lists of ‘stressors’ that can cause serious emotional crisis in individuals’ lives, and how those affect us, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ranking in the top 5 are the loss of a parent, the loss of a Read more

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How to Find Wonderful Victory When Suffering Severely Isaiah 43:2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set Read more

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College is full of new pressures and possibilities. Here are Bible verses for college students that speak peace, purpose, and steady wisdom in a busy season. Scripture shapes hearts, habits, and even the spaces we study in, which is why many students love surrounding themselves with Christian wall art that Read more

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Timely Words of Hope in the Darkest of Days What do you do when the world feels too dark to hope? I was only sixteen when my hope shattered overnight. It was a beautiful spring evening, and I fell asleep at my parents’ house. Then, at 2 a.m., a knock Read more

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Five Scriptures That Bring Hope When Life Feels Impossible. Have you ever whispered, “I can’t do this anymore”? I have. Some seasons in life feel as if they will never end. When we feel pressed up against a wall with no clear way over or around it. But there is Read more

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Why Do We Think Surrender Is Such a Colossal Challenge? Can we be honest here? Surrender is hard. Like, REALLY hard at times. How about you, friend? We Fight to Hold It All Together. We fight to hold it all together … trying to control the timing, hustling to fix Read more

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