I always learn so much more from other people's mistakes than from their success. Allison Bottke knows this is true so she shares candidly about the countless mistakes she made as a teenaged girl.

Martin Luther once commented that humanity after the fall is no longer able to imagine any way to be made right with God other than works. Our tendency by nature is to slip into the delusion that our standing before God somehow depends on what we do.

Academia is filled with "enlightened" instructors who dismiss Christianity as a myth, a crutch or simply ignorant thinking. That's the theme of a movie called God's not Dead, starring Kevin Sorbo (AKA Hercules) as the atheist professor and Superman- De...

Hannah wanted a baby so badly she offered to give him back to God if He would just give her a son. She didn't get that son immediately, but "Scripture says "in due time" God gave her a son who would be one of Israel's greatest prophets and priests and ...

Stress will (not might) impact your physical health. From weight (loss/gain), interest in sex and sleep patterns to serious illness, stress can kill you. Relationships, job performance and joy are often impacted as well. Even your relationship with God ca

You have POWER to overcome ALL things, however, the world we all live in spews negative junk that bombards our hearts and minds keeping us defeated, because we buy into it.

So when my kids ask me about someone who looks or acts different from us, I try to use our experience of receiving Penny into our lives as a starting point. I talk about how skin color tells us something about Jordan but also about our own origins, or abo

We have this incredible inheritance that is guarded by God, and that should give us tremendous hope. It’s not going anywhere; it’s reserved for us. We should rest on the hope of this inheritance, not in the circumstances of this world. We can’t rest

Experts say that we gravitate towards friends and relationships within a ten-point spread of our IQ. We are more naturally comfortable around those with whom we can intellectually relate. Likewise, in the realm of soul-health, we also attract those with w

The Lord would send people to comfort me, but I didn’t really want the comfort. I wanted to make sense of this tragedy. The intensity of the pain was consuming my heart. On top of all of this, I was dealing with the struggle of the physical pain from a