A woman once visited a weaver’s school, where the students were making beautiful patterns. She asked, “When you make a mistake, must you cut it out and start from the ...
Read More »The Voice Of God
God speaks to us in many different ways. In Scripture we see that at times, He has spoken to men through dreams and visions, circumstances, and other people. He appeared ...
Read More »How Has God Changed Your Life?
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: I might not be where I need to be but thank God Almighty, I’m sure not where I used to be! ...
Read More »“Hello God, Are You Up There?” When He ‘Doesn’t Answer’ Our Prayers… or Does He?
by Lorraine Espenhain | Our prayers will be answered by God, not because we have succeeded in getting God to see things our way, but because He has succeeded in changing our hearts
Read More »Have You Lost Something?
Has something within you been destroyed – something that God never wanted you to lose? What is it? What led to its demise? How did you get to this place ...
Read More »Guilt
Do you struggle with guilt? Feeling guilty has its proper place, as it is used by the Spirit of God to lead us to confession and repentance. But once Christ ...
Read More »Acceptance
We’re all familiar with that now-famous prayer which begins with the words, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…” What is it in your life ...
Read More »What Is Your Perception of God?
God desires to have an intimate relationship with each and every single one of His children. Many times, however, this intimate relationship is not experienced because of erroneous perceptions that ...
Read More »All Things Work Together
According to Romans 8:28, “In all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” When things are going well ...
Read More »G. K. Chesterton’s Fr. Brown Debunks The Facade of Secret Societies
by Mitchell Kalpakgian | In one of the Father Brown detective mysteries, a select group of men known as “The Twelve True Fishermen,” meet once a year for an annual club dinner at the fashionable Vernon Hotel.
Read More »What the Horse Can Teach Us About Courage
by John Clark | Why does the horse laugh at fear? Why is he so excited to go into battle? The answer is simple: because the horse loves his master, and he knows his master loves Him.
Read More »Pray Your Way Through Your Homeschool Day
by Mary Ellen Barret | When our homeschool lifestyle began, it was easy to let the prayer part of my life fall away since I was too busy to sit quietly.
Read More »Spiritual Discernment: How to Stay *Online* with God
by Lorraine Espenhain | How do we do it? He is the One who teaches us all things and gives us the spiritual understanding that we possess.
Read More »Why did God Take It Away from Me?
by Lorraine Espenhain | Sometimes God allows us to go through seeming seasons of loss in our lives in order to move us into what I call 'greater gains'.
Read More »Why ‘Living in God’ is Actually Pretty Practical… and Crucial
by Lorraine Espenhain | Why couldn’t God have provided a job for my husband in Philadelphia? Why did He feel the need to uproot me from my comfort zone?
Read More »Will Science ‘Save’ Us?
by Mitchell Kalpakgian | Science separated from God and the common good and removed from morality and wisdom presumes to be an end in itself rather than a means to an end.
Read More »Does the Catholic Church Equate Allah and Yahweh (God)?
by Dave Armstrong | When the Church has referred to Muslims worshiping the one God, it is meant in the sense of both Christians and Muslims being monotheists.
Read More »Religion: A ‘Dirty Word’ in Hollywood? (And Why I Don’t Like ‘Noah’)
by Ken Clark | Back in the golden age of Hollywood, major studios made religious movies that actually praised God and religion. Charleton Heston alone seems to have played most of the Apostles and Prophets. Who can forget his roles as Moses in The Ten Commandments or John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told, two excellent religious movies.
Read More »Purgatory and the Bible: God Purifying His People In the Here and Now
by Dave Armstrong | I've often used what I call the “nutshell” argument for Purgatory: we must be without sin to enter into God's presence (Eph 5:5; Heb 12:14; Rev 21:27; 22:3, 14-15). Therefore, God must purge or wash away our sin to make us fit to be in heaven with Him. All agree so far.
Read More »The Bible vs. Contraception: God Opens the Womb and Blesses Parents with Children
by Dave Armstrong | We can learn a lot from words: especially if we go back to the Latin roots of many of our English words. All Christians are familiar with the notion of God being the Creator. He made all things from nothing (theologians describe this with the wonderful Latin phrase, creatio ex nihilo).
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