“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow…
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The Coming Kingdom
While my husband, Billy, and I have always talked about international travel, we have not been able to do that together until this past summer.…
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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…
View More Living as Citizens of HeavenThe Promise No One Quotes
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…
View More The Promise No One QuotesA Heavenly Passport
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…
View More A Heavenly PassportFinding Rivers in the Bottom of Valleys
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…
View More Finding Rivers in the Bottom of ValleysCitizens of Heaven
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…
View More Citizens of HeavenCelebrity or Servant?
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…
View More Celebrity or Servant?Faithful in the Forgotten Corners
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,…
View More Faithful in the Forgotten CornersA Servant Undercover
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…
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