By Erin Casey – Without a dream for your future, it’s impossible to create a dream life. I recently read The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Gillebeau. The book resonated with me, but I especially liked this line: “The most important part of unconventional life planning is to be clear
By Janelle Alberts – Have you heard the one about the man with leprosy? Or two blind men who wouldn’t take no for an answer? Jesus healed them. But don’t tell anybody. That’s Jesus’ punch line. He said don’t tell anybody. After hundreds of pages, the reader of the Bible
By Nancie Carmichael – Is it time for you to take a Selah? For all of us there is season, and a time to step back to get some prospective on our lives and where we are, and maybe more importantly, where we are going. Some of my favorite times
By Nancie Carmichael – The word “Selah” intrigues me. When I was a child, my father would read a Psalm to my brother and sister and me from the King James Bible before we left for school in the morning: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
Cynthia Stone, a respected member of Peaceful Grace Community Church in Brooksville, is a regular contributor to LB. She writes about everyday occurrences that involve her efforts to make her church the best in town. Cynthia claims that Upper Hillside Community, the other church in Brooksville, has a lukewarm congregation
My granddaughter is perfect in every way—clear satin skin, tendrils of delicate pale hair like find gold floss. Her smile is engaging and her teeth glimmer. And then suddenly she cries and wriggles from me and clings to really just her sadness. It’s like a motor she has turned on
By Mary Southerland – It had been a wonderful day! We were all tired after hiking Grandfather Mountain and stopping on the way home to picnic beside a pristine North Carolina creek. Bedtime preparation was proceeding amazingly well. All that mountain air and country cooking was a natural sedative for
By Linda Menesez, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. – I was recently looking at a photo of my stepfather that was taken several years ago, when he was still physically and mentally able to take care of his house and yard. Unfortunately, time has taken away a lot of his abilities. At 89,
By Nancie Carmichael – It was time to plant again, but first I had a job to do, one I’d put off too long. So yesterday I spent the whole day in the yard, raking out last year’s pine needles and dead aspen leaves. Then I tackled the dead petunias
By Dave and Mary Jo Nutting – People sometimes ask, “Why do you do what you do? Why travel around the country and the world talking about Evolution and Creation? Why don’t you just preach the Gospel?” Well, the reason we do it is because we believe God has called
By Janelle Alberts – My first job out of college was at a writing clinic where I didn’t write at all – I checked people in at the door. I kept the appointment book. My desk was bolted to the floor in a hallway. I hated it. But when asked,
By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company With God: My Bible titles Psalm 45 “The Glories of the Messiah and His Bride.” That is a powerful title and speaks volumes about where we are headed. The darkness Isaiah saw is coming upon the earth and God is preparing
By Laura Petherbridge – “My mother said if I had been a better housekeeper my husband wouldn’t have left me for another woman,” the young woman said, weeping uncontrollably. Overnight she discovered that everything she believed about her marriage and husband was a lie. He had a secret life complete with
By Maryann Ehmann – Anyone remember the song from the 70’s… “I’ve been cheated. Been mistreated. When will I, I be loved? I’ve been put down. I’ve been pushed round. When will I be loved? I’ve been made blue. I’ve been lied to. When will I be loved?” Besides my
By Susan Schaad – An unplanned trip to the mountains with friends An unfinished book conveys a treasure An unlikely adventure inspite of weather A heartfelt cry to keep pressing on A friend to encourage (and help install snow chains!) A trek through snow warmed by expectation Attentions are set
By Janelle Alberts – Over the years, I’ve heard dozens of how-to-be-godly messages for women and they regularly circle around the same theme: don’t mouth off to men. Especially husbands. Right. Good. Unless you’re Esther. Or Abigail. And your husbands are being idiots. In which case speak up! Stand up!
By Katherine Swarts “Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’???” (Isaiah 45:9 NIV). Friend to Friend However
By Dave Nutting of Alpha Omega Institute – While Mary Jo and I were speaking at the University of Minnesota, a young lady from China shared a testimony with us that really struck home. She said she had attended our programs last year and they made a very real impact
By Laura Petherbridge – I hadn’t expected Saturday, April 7th, 1984 to be extraordinary—but it was. That was the day my marriage died. After discovering that our marriage covenant was broken and my husband wanted out of our union, I started crying that day and didn’t stop for a very,
by Nancie Carmichael – Seasons can be confusing. We’ve had an unusually mild winter, and I noticed some bulbs sprouting in the garden. Is it winter or is it spring? Reminds me of my friend Cheryl, who is going through menopause while her daughter is entering puberty. “My seasons are
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