Did you expect to have a nice sparkly diamond (or a rough, manly band) decorating that finger by now? Perhaps you were in a relationship heading towards marriage, but, for one reason or another, it didn’t work out in the end. Or perhaps you’re still patiently waiting for the right one to show up. You’re…
Maybe the most compelling story isn’t the one we identify with, but the one that breaks our hearts. It’s the story we pray never comes true. The book, Born to Deliver, is the personal story of Kathy Brace and the slow, painful, permanent way that Jesus drew her to Himself. At the tender age of fifteen, Brace…
It was Easter Sunday 1978, a holy day, a day to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, so why my parents chose that day to announce they were getting a divorce, I’ll never know. I was 16 years old and I was well aware that many of my friends had parents who were divorced. They lived…
I don’t know how many frogs the fairy-tale princess kissed before she found her prince, but I have to admit that I kissed a lot of frogs before finding my prince. We want to believe in the fairy-tale. Most of us want to believe that our “prince” is out there somewhere among all the frogs that we…
Have you ever felt like the hours are going by so quickly that you just can’t seem to keep up no matter how fast you run after them? I’ve felt like that lately. Life is filled with noise and God seems “strangely silent,” as Beth Moore puts it in her study on the book of…
