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...
Time to Take a Devotional Break: Between Two Seasons
December 26th through January 1st is a strange time of year.
The frenzy of Christmas preparations, travel, and celebrations...