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article | September 19, 2017

You’re at camp or in a church service or reading your Bible when suddenly you feel a strange tugging on your heart. It feels like God is asking you to do something, maybe something very specific. Like: Go to the foreign mission …

article | May 7, 2015

So, your parents don’t trust you? Maybe every time you have to explain your actions to them you feel like you’ve been put on trial. They drill you about details and keep digging, convinced you’re hiding something. Maybe they take more of …

article | September 25, 2017

According to statistics by the Disability and American Families U.S. Census Bureau Report, one in twenty-six families is raising children with a disability. An estimated 2.8 million families, 1.3 percent, reported raising two or more children with a disability. The Gosney house …

article | May 31, 2013

A recent Wall Street Journal article inquired, "Where Have All The Good Men Gone?" A current Amazon bestseller asks, Is There Anything Good About Men? Since the 2004 coining of the word "adultescent,"1 we've had something to call the young adult male …

article | May 16, 2016

At True Woman '14, thousands of women sat in perfect silence as Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth spent more than thirty minutes quoting from memory a beautifully arranged collection of passages from all over the Scriptures. The power of the Living Word was palpable …

article | July 11, 2016

It can often feel like the local church is built mainly around married people or families, but interestingly enough, both Jesus and Paul were single, and so was one of my favorite women in Scripture, Lydia. We're not told much about Lydia's …

article | January 31, 2022

I’m fond of saying I love winter . . . for three weeks. Give me one good snowfall per year, preferably on Christmas. (Just as long as it doesn’t linger and turn into frozen piles of dirty sludge. Ick). Sure, I’ll happily …

article | May 27, 2019

Every year our family tries to get away somewhere for a couple of weeks (preferably to a warm destination!) just to rest, refuel, and build fun memories together. Some of our most precious and memorable moments have happened on these family getaways, …

article | August 24, 2020

In my work encouraging and equipping women’s ministries around the Southeast, I often hear a common concern from ministry leaders. This concern is voiced by those in large and small churches. It’s shared by those in new ministries and those in long-established …

article | October 21, 2019

Few, if any of us, would deny prayer’s value. But if we as a community of leaders are brutally honest, is group prayer as high of a priority to us as recruiting and shepherding leaders, teaching and training, or casting vision? In …