encouragment – Page 2

Living as Citizens of Heaven

I expect you to be on your best behavior, girls. Emily, set a good example. These words filled my childhood days. Treating others with kindness…

A few days ago, Pandora played Rich Mullins singing his song, “If I Stand.” Here’s the chorus: So if I stand let me stand on…

Friday Devotionals

When I was a teenager, it was very popular to publish books that listed off the promises of Scripture. The idea was to have a…

Have you ever noticed how powerful a passport is? That little booklet tells the world where you belong. It determines your identity in a foreign…

I never knew a valley could be this deep. It doesn’t seem like a valley anymore, more like a pit. These past months I have…

My Canadian husband and I lived in the massive multicultural city of Toronto, Ontario, when we first married. As a United States citizen who only…

Our culture worships celebrities. Whether they are notorious for doing good or evil, we spend so much of our time scanning the tabloids in the…

Every Saturday for several years, Michael and I with kids in tow would head to the church building together—not for a meeting or a rehearsal,…

Had you been Mary Tutas Feyen, you might have come across as cranky and stern too, and understandably so. Her father died in a farming…

As a teen, I remember singing the song “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.” I thought of my commitment to Jesus, but I did not…