Beyond Weight Loss: 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Soul

By Michele Scallion | January 20, 2025 | 0 Comments

I imagine that most New Year’s resolutions are forgotten by now! Most people who make resolutions are deadly serious when they begin. But after a few weeks, after they’ve failed a few times in cutting calories or reading the Bible daily, they give up. Well, here are some resolutions that are worth considering because they […]

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Living in the “Now and Not Yet”: Nurturing Expectant Faith

By Barbara Rainey | January 6, 2025 | 0 Comments

I have a friend who loves new school supplies.  Perhaps it’s a carryover from her childhood … but I agree with her that it’s exciting to anticipate a new school season. Purchasing new pencils, pens, clean notebooks, paper and calendars means starting afresh. We can begin again, re-organize, enjoy the opening of a new chapter. The start […]

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Finding God in Your Stress: How to Experience Peace When You’re Overwhelmed

By Michele Scallion | November 18, 2024 | 0 Comments

A lesson I’m still learning, but understand more clearly with each decade of life, is that fixing my circumstances is rarely the answer to reducing stress.   The “whens” were a repeated refrain for me for decades, beginning when our children were all little. Life will be so much easier when she sleeps through the night, or when the littlest one […]

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Learning to Trust God in the Midst of Darkness

By Michele Scallion | September 23, 2024 | 0 Comments

At age 28 I experienced my first significant encounter with a side of God that was as unknown to me as the dark side of the moon. Up until that day my life had proceeded “normally” in the light … until one fateful June morning. One bright summer morning in early June, enthusiasm for a […]

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Lies You May Believe About God: “If I Do My Part, God Will Answer My Prayers”

By Barbara Rainey | June 12, 2023 | 0 Comments

As a new Christian, and a few years later as a new wife, I eagerly prayed for everything. God graciously allowed me to see answers in those early years of faith because He knew I needed to see some evidence. Little children need much encouragement. Without fully realizing it, I developed a formula. In all […]

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