“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively (living)...

I LOVE my friends! Here in my Arizona mountain town, I have acquired a team of faithful, solid, sensitive, and intelligent friends. Back...

Is it possible for faith to be its own evidence? Hebrews 11:1 defines faith in just this way and claims to offer hope as a result: “Now...

Don’t you just love the fresh opportunities of a new year? Me too! Often, the whole last week of December, I set up my new journal for...

Nearly everyone, even those unchurched are familiar with Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth in his gospel. After the angel announced to the...

Our children are a blessing: literally an heirloom given to us by God Himself. As I’m contemplating my son coming home tonight for twenty...

On December 14, 1991, I, Chrisann Baker, married Gale Dawson. It was a beautiful Christmas wedding, complete with Christmas trees...

Hope in the Loneliest Place: The Mind Is it possible for the mind to be the loneliest place on the planet? How about the loneliness of a...

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore, my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song...

“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy...

Everyone experiences loss: the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship as in divorce or the choices of a wayward child, the loss...

Shakespeare aptly stated the two basic ways to deal with conflict in his famous quote: “To be or not to be…that is the question: Whether...

The whole spectrum of physical illness from the common flu to a hopeless cancer diagnosis can be debilitating and depressing. Fighting...

C.S. Lewis once said, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that...

Do you know what a mango maggot or bort fly is? Yep! Neither did my husband nor I, until December of 1994. As new missionaries in Congo...

Courage and strength are two qualities that seem to be in short supply among the general population in today’s society. Many express...

Did you know that Jesus spoke often of His coming kingdom? The kingdom is mentioned one-hundred and forty-seven times in the New...

“Why would someone need hope working in full-time ministry?” you may ask. “Isn’t ministry life all roses and rainbows?” People who’ve...

“Pain is weakness leaving the body” is a very popular workout motto, but is this true in the other facets beyond that of exercise and...

What I do is merely an extension of who I am. All my adult life I’ve been a classroom teacher, focusing mainly on high school grammar and...