A Grateful Heart
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one thing more… a grateful heart! George Herbert I have been sitting here all morning trying to wrap my brain around the concept of thankfulness. I think the...
View ArticleEditor’s Letter for June
A righteous man walks in his integrity – How blessed are his children after him. Proverbs 20:7 I’ve been clipping articles on fathers for months from numerous publications I regularly read. That would...
View ArticlePassions, Callings,and Abundant Life
Editor’s Letter August 2012 Rick Warren’s 2002 best seller, The Purpose Driven Life, has been translated into 56 languages and has sold more than 30 million copies. Regardless of your opinion on...
View ArticleCourage, Comfort Zones, and God’s Plans
Editor’s Letter October 2012 “Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusts in Thee…” (Isaiah 26:3) It was Charles Swindoll, pastor, author, educator, and radio...
View ArticleSolid and Simple—Things That Last
Editor’s Letter November 2012 O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us; And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed; And...
View ArticleChristmas Reflections
For millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have...
View ArticleBest Advice for the New Year
Best Advice for the New Year: Encourage Yourself in the Lord Our God! “…But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God” (1 Samuel 30:6). I recently finished a 12-week study on the life of David. He...
View ArticleLETTER FROM THE EDITOR—Life, Leadership, and Stuff That Matters
By: MARILYN TINNIN “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” Matthew 5:14 “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5 Just looking at...
View ArticleLETTER FROM THE EDITOR—Soul Hunger
By: MARILYN TINNIN He restores my soul (Psalm 23:3). On this almost spring afternoon in late March, the sun is shining. It is the kind of day that makes up for the past season of frigid temperatures...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—Solid and Simple
Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection upon the past and an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus, so much so...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—Christmas Changes Everything
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 …Long lay the world in sin and error pining, till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. From “O Holy Night” Light has...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—Great Expectations
Thou changest not. Thy compassions they fail not. Great is thy faithfulness, God, unto me. From “Great is Thy Faithfulness” by Thomas Chisholm “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—Love—It’s Worth the Price
“All you need is love.” —The Beatles For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—On Leadership, Life, and Learning
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10:11 “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John Maxwell This month marks the sixth...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—An Easter Mindset
Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. John 16:20. “Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—One Mom’s Musings
“But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” Luke 2:19 Without a doubt, the strongest emotion I have ever experienced has been in response to my children. There is little...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—Fathers, Families, and Faith—It Is All True
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—My Country, ‘Tis of Thee
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”...
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—The Race Card
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 I happened to be invited to speak at a men’s breakfast in Oxford last fall....
View ArticleEDITOR’S LETTER—This and That
Strength is found not in busyness and noise but in quietness. For a lake to reflect the heavens on its surface, it must be calm. From Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman I am sitting on a plane 34,000...
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