A desperate mother of a suffering child will stop at nothing to get help. She’ll seek out every expert, go any distance, and make every sacrifice to ensure her child is once again well and whole. Such a mother is singleminded and relentless. She remains a powerful and persistent force until someone finally attends to her plea for help.
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You may not realize it, but you’re faced with a decision that will define your life. Everyone around you is screaming for you to do something you know isn’t the right thing. You want peace, though you realize it comes at a high price.
But one person, one whose opinion should carry significant weight, begs you to ignore the crowds and act (more…)
What would you do if you knew the decisions you made could affect the lives of countless people over multiple generations? How would you verify your path forward?
Chances are, you would seek the counsel of a wiser person.
That’s exactly what Judah’s King Josiah did when a temple repair project unearthed a forgotten biblical scroll. The scroll terrified and convicted Josiah because (more…)
In a culture in which women were generally seen but not heard, five sisters dared to speak up for their rights. As their father’s only children, it was up to them to preserve their family legacy. Their names—Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah—may be unfamiliar, but their courage and integrity remain as an example for us today.
We meet them first in (more…)
One Sunday, an inquisitive man in our church small group posed the question, “What is a miracle?” His former pastor had told him a miracle is something beyond the realm of the explicable.
I thought about the countless physiological and neurological processes at work within him as he spoke. I was struck by how each one of us, and every moment of (more…)