ARCHIVES 2017

Georgia Varozza, author of the popular Homestyle Amish Kitchen Cookbook(more than 70,000 copies sold), enjoys teaching people how to prepare and preserve healthy foods, live simply, and get the most from what they have. She works in publishing and lives in a small Oregon community.

Stormie Omartian is the bestselling author of The Power of a Praying^® series (more than 35 million books sold). Her other books include Just Enough Light for the Step I’m On; Lead Me, Holy Spirit; Prayer Warrior; and Out of Darkness.

Hope Lyda has a heart for inviting people to experience the still and quiet voice of God in their lives. As an editor and writer, she has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. 

When our prayer lives feel shallow, we’re probably tossing out prayers halfheartedly.

Sometimes it seems that the American church’s highest value is what Francis Schaeffer called “personal peace and affluence.” We want to be accepted by everyone. We don’t want to be controversial. Above all, we don’t want to suffer.

So whenever you find yourself looking out the window in judgment of others, turn back to the mirror and see who you are. You’ll find the mirror has a memory.

Though we know our true treasures are in heaven, we often times become more preoccupied with the riches of earth. 

We are pilgrims in this life, not because our home will never be on Earth, but because our ultimate home isn’t on the present Earth (which is under the Curse). 

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries and a New York Times bestselling author of over fifty books, including Heaven (over one million sold) and...

More theological battles have been lost to enemies inside the church than to those outside.

Anger’s roar may be filling the ears of our heart. Worry may mute our soul’s capacity to listen to the Spirit. When we trust Jesus, we’re in a position to hear Jesus

When we have been wounded, we naturally seek out people who can help apply the salve of support and sympathy. 

I’m grateful for the times a friend has offered to help me before I even had a chance to ask. When people are perceptive enough to discern what we need and when we need it, they become vessels for God’s provision.

You’re like me. You meet people like Anushka in your community every day. Trouble is, we never look—I mean, look deeply—at a run-of-the-mill shopkeeper and picture that person rising out of a grave, either to live or to be condemned.

God tells us we shouldn’t be surprised when we suffer. It’s as if he’s asking, “Whatever gave you the idea that you weren’t supposed to suffer?”

I’ve found that anytime, at any place, and on any day, my list of priorities are susceptible to falling out of order.

As I waited day after day, week after week, and then month after month for my once-energetic child to be restored, healthy, and whole again, Psalm 42 resonated with me.

It’s time to discard past mistakes and let yesterday do the job it was made for. 

Elizabeth George, whose books have sold more than 11 million copies, is the author of A Woman After God’s Own Heart® (more than 1 million copies sold) and Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!

I’m a quadriplegic, yet I can drive a van.

Friend, God honors hospitality in unique ways.

The more you think upon the Lord and the less you think of yourself, the better off you become.

The statutes of God stand firm forever. No secular storm can blow His truth from its moorings.

Kathi Lipp is a busy conference and retreat speaker and the bestselling author of several books, including Clutter Free, The Husband Project, and The Get Yourself Organized Project.

You have a divine purpose rooted in God’s plan.