Modeling Respect in Our World Today

By Michele Scallion | February 3, 2025 | 0 Comments

Did your parents teach you to respect others? And I’m not just talking about respecting authority figures like teachers, the school principal, your pastor, grandparents, and other adults. Did they teach you to respect your friends, your neighbors? Did they teach you to respect people you disagree with or those who are different from you? […]

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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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The Surprising Truth About Gratitude (And Why It Heals Your Heart)

By Barbara Rainey | November 25, 2024 | 0 Comments

One spring, years ago now, Dennis and I watched other families experience all the celebratory festivities of a child’s senior year in high school: proms, award nights, graduation. But our daughter, a senior that year, had decided she was done with school. At 18, she knew she was not legally bound to us anymore. Six […]

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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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