My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?  By Jacqueline Pugh.   Have you ever been in a spiritual desert?  Or a valley that seems to get deeper and darker?  Have you felt as if your prayers have been deactivated?  You read your Bible daily, go through devotional after devotional, attend church services, but […]

Be Not Discouraged, There Is Hope.  By Edna Robinson.   “Hope deferred makes the heart sick…” (Proverbs 13:12a)   Working at an agency designed to encourage people that there is hope for resolving adverse situations can be a difficult task when individuals on the other end of the phone are distraught and believe their problems […]

Who are we, and what do we do?  By Brenda Aguila.   We are a group of women who yearn to serve in one of the most neglected ministries in the church today.  God has allowed a select group of women to serve in this ministry that is bringing hope and love to women who […]

I Have No Hands But Yours.  By Tracey Mason. There is a powerful story of a statue of Christ outside a church in San Diego, California.  A full-size figure of Jesus is depicted with open arms to a hurting world.  Sadly, around 1980 the church was vandalized, and the hands of Christ were broken off. […]

Fear vs. Peace.  By Janet Henman. Fear is a stronghold!  So, what is a stronghold? In simple terms, strongholds are thoughts, arguments, and reasonings.  We could call them “fiery darts of the enemy” (Ephesians 6:16), that the devil uses to bring confusion and either tries to complicate, hinder or even destroy our faith and trust […]

Philemon who?  Onesimus who?  The smallest book in the bible has no need for chapter numbers because it only has 25 verses.  It is a personal letter that Paul wrote while in prison to a man named Philemon. Philemon was a wealthy and influential man in the town of Colossae located in the country that […]

Why God?  Why me?  By Norma Knight. I have worked so hard, invested so much time and yet, it is taken away once again!!!!  These are questions that at first, I started asking, or more so thrown as a tantrum. So, I have been at my job for nine years and for the past three […]

Aspire to be Kind.  By Laura Carson. Proverbs 19:22 “What is desired in a man is kindness…”   We are judged by our kindness.  Kindness is visible.  People can hear how we speak and watch how we act. People all around witness our daily interactions with others.  We need to apply kindness through our speech […]

By Teri Carter. Where is God when you’re in the middle of the hard stuff?  We’ve all probably heard that He’s right there with you, and that is absolutely true.  After all, Psalms 23:4 tells us “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your […]

Meltdowns Happen   This past week was a doozy!   Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong.  And almost everything in this case was a financial disaster.  I’ll spare you the details, but just know that I was both victimized where I bore no responsibility for the terrible fallout, but I was also […]