by Andy Wall | Nov 20, 2022 | Articles
“A joyful heart is good medicine…” Proverbs 17:22 As we gear up for Thanksgiving this week, here are fifteen quotes on gratitude to help prime our hearts and minds to give thanks. These reminders will do us all good, and doubly so if they inspire us to express our...
by Andy Wall | Nov 13, 2022 | Articles
“The saints all passed through many temptations and trials to profit by them. There is no state so holy, no place so secret that temptations and trials will not come.” Thomas à Kempis Perhaps you have had the experience, as I often have, of coming across something in...
by Andy Wall | Nov 6, 2022 | Articles
“Discerning signs has to do with comprehending the remarkable in common happenings, to see portents of death where others find progress or success, but simultaneously, to behold tokens of the reality of the resurrection or hope where others are consigned to confusion...
by Andy Wall | Oct 30, 2022 | Articles
There are few things that feel better than answered prayer. A crisis arises. An illness flares. A conflict erupts. You go to prayer, asking God to intervene, to heal, to restore. And in due course, the crisis is averted, the patient recovers, the conflict is resolved....
by Andy Wall | Oct 23, 2022 | Articles
As a family of believers, we are called to care for one another in a variety of ways. In the letters of the New Testament, believers are urged to “love one another” (17 times), “encourage one another” (6 times), “serve one another” (5 times), “be patient with one...
by conejochurch | Oct 16, 2022 | Articles
[Editor’s note: This poem is by Howard Thurman, an American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and leader who helped provide the spiritual depth of the civil rights movement. It offers an invitation to the meditative moment in which we can “be still and know”...
by Rene Heard | Oct 9, 2022 | Articles
[Editor’s note: The following piece, by occasional columnist Heather Burke Cody of north Georgia, invites us to pay attention to “soul nudges,” which I might call nudges of the Spirit. It has been edited for length.] I was thrift shopping for dorm stuff. The cashier...
by Andy Wall | Oct 2, 2022 | Articles
“…he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” Titus 3:5 A story has circulated about a famous skeptic, who on his deathbed, allegedly tried to hedge...
by Andy Wall | Sep 25, 2022 | Articles
Since I am married to a teacher of teachers, I’m always unconsciously reading for insights pertaining to the educator’s craft. I came across one recently in Father Gregory Boyle’s book, “Tattoos of the Heart.” On his first day as a young teacher, Father Boyle poked...
by Andy Wall | Sep 18, 2022 | Articles
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb Lasting relationships require hard work. Anyone who’s sustained a friendship for more than a year or two knows this. So does anyone who’s been married for any length...
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