A Joyful Noise: Spring Break to Remember

In February, a company specializing in travel insurance polled 3,250 customers about their spring break plans, and according to the results, people...

Time for a Devotional Break: What’s in Your Hand?

A well-known song from the 1960s extolled the virtue of everyone living their life MY WAY. Despite possible misunderstandings, the singer crooned...

A Joyful Noise: Walk on in Faith

Once again, Indiana can’t make up its mind. It decided to feel like spring last week, and then it...

A Joyful Noise: True Love – And Pizza

On the eve of Valentine’s Day — when Americans inexplicably conclude that those tiny candy hearts taste good...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Faithful Friends

Depending on age, interests, and your place along this journey called “life,” friendship very likely means something different to every reader.

A Joyful Noise: Pray Instead of Panic

The Apostle Paul once wrote, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Encounter with God

While family members can build strong bonds of love, it is also possible to destroy those same relationships through misunderstandings, jealousy, or...

A Joyful Noise: What’s in a Name

In a recent — and thoroughly unscientific — survey, I studied the genesis of names. Specifically, I asked 18...

Marriage Tune-Up Weekend at Hope Missionary Church

“Who says working on your marriage has to feel like work?” Marriage speakers Jeff & Debbie McElroy of Forever...

A Joyful Noise: A Holy New Year

I sometimes wonder what people discard first: Their Christmas trees or New Year’s resolutions. Arguably, both symbolize the joys...