By Jill Dixon Laundry is one of those chores that you can never fully check off your list. It’s always there and it’s time consuming. As a full time kindergarten teacher, I had come up … Read More
The Quest For Pinkberry- Confessions of a Distracted Soul
by Cari Stone It began so innocently really. An evening spent with a girlfriend. Two paper cups filled with a seemingly harmless, albeit tarter than anticipated plain frozen yogurt called Pinkberry. We casually … Read More
Let Your Light Shine
by Krista Frohling On our church’s anniversary Sunday in September, when Reed or Steve asks us to share how we have been brought closer to God as a result of our fellowship, I feel … Read More
For Women: A Gentle Call to Encouragement
Every family has a “family historian” — one who remembers the times, places, events and relationships between different family members. In some families that historian is more of a statistician, and in others it is … Read More
Undreamed Happiness: Clues to the Success of Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor again. Last month in these pages we looked at this missionary’s secret for dealing with his own pain and suffering. This month let’s consider why he accomplished so much for God and God’s … Read More
What’s the Catch? Thought on the Death of My Father
By Paul Bradford I’m a baseball lover, but this is not about baseball. I’m a guy, but this is not necessarily about guys. It’s about fathers, and my father who died three weeks ago. It’s … Read More
What’s So Special About Grandkids?
Having grandkids has really taken me by surprise. Yes, I’ve always liked kids, especially my own. Certainly I anticipated that having grandchildren would be fun. When Krista, our oldest daughter, got pregnant for the first … Read More
The Continuous Habit of the Soul: Hudson Taylor’s Secret in Suffering
He was short, soft-spoken and shy. He didn’t believe he possessed great spiritual gifts and on more than one occasion referred to himself as God’s little servant. He was given to depression and melancholy and … Read More
The Foolish Heart: Some Thoughts On Christopher Hitchens
The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ This, along with the biblical maxim, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, is the starting point of all Christian thought and … Read More
Traveling With Vonnegut
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken … Read More