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article | June 2, 2008

In her autobiography, Frances Jane Crosby wrote, “It seemed intended by the blessed Providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank Him for the dispensation.” The doctor who destroyed her sight in her infancy never forgave …

article | August 26, 2009

Teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be …

article | April 27, 2020

While our family has heeded shelter-in-place for the last month, the sudden visitation of many emotions has caught me off-guard and made me wonder, Is this okay? One moment I’m doing housework or reading a book or talking to my husband, feeling …

article | November 13, 2017

A dear friend of mine worked in a bank overseas for about a year, handling large amounts of money. During training, she had to study various bills and learn their details so she could easily discern counterfeits if they came along. She …

article | January 22, 2020

Mandy had always been a planner. She was organized, disciplined, and never missed an opportunity to help someone else. She’d always had a plan for her life from the get-go: raised in a Christian family, homeschooled from kindergarten to high school, surrounded …

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 | September 19, 2022

Where are the wailing women? Call for the wailing women to come and cry out Since our nation lay in a casket Tell them to come and mourn over her America is a mother without a pulse She lay in a casket …

article | April 16, 2015

“My name is Erin, and I have an approval addiction.” It’s true. I crave compliments, praise, and adoration more than almost anything else. I’d jump through almost any hoop to get people to rise to their feet and applaud for me. I …

article | November 2, 2020

Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from the original blog post Erin Davis wrote in 2016. For months I’ve been warming the bench. It seems every other writer on the surface of the globe has put on their battle gear and jumped …

article | December 9, 2020

Last Christmas morning, I didn’t want to get out of bed. I was war weary. Exhausted. Sick of the “It’s not supposed to be this way” feeling. My family’s beloved traditions were waiting for me, but they couldn’t change the mess that …