by Maggie Paulus | Aug 28, 2024 | Women's Content
Have you been wounded by someone who should have loved you? Do you feel like damaged goods? Some of us have been beat up, in our souls, by those who should have built us up and nurtured us. We often feel like damaged goods. But the truth is, we are not rubbish. And...
by John Avant | Aug 28, 2024 | Pastors & Leaders Content
As I talk to pastors, especially in an election season like this, I often sense the deep frustration they feel in shepherding their people through a time like this. People are very angry and opinionated these days. It’s hard to know how much or how little to say, and...
by Mark Hurlbut | Aug 28, 2024 | Men's Content
I was a young man in my early thirties, married with four daughters under six years old, and working a full-commissioned sales job. While grateful for the work, it barely made ends meet. Someone I knew told me of a company in an emerging industry that was hiring...
by Mark Hurlbut | Aug 14, 2024 | Men's Content
I want to finish well for Christ. I trust you do, too. In his letter to young Timothy urging long-term faithfulness to gospel living, Paul identified his clear conscience as the cornerstone to his fruitful endurance (2 Timothy 1:3). For you and me as men, the same is...
by Donna Avant | Aug 6, 2024 | Women's Content
What are you learning right now in God’s Word? Are you living it out? Do you feel like you constantly fail to live out His truth? Many people know me as John Avant’s wife—a mom, a grandmother, a writer, a speaker. But most don’t know that for many years, I worked as a...
by Mark Hurlbut | Aug 6, 2024 | Pastors & Leaders Content
I am what you might call a recreational gardener. It’s a hobby I find great joy and satisfaction in. I love the reward of seeing the literal fruits of my labor season after season. One of the more difficult disciplines for me has been pruning. It just feels...
by Mark Hurlbut | Aug 6, 2024 | Men's Content
We didn’t live in Chick-fil-A country, so when the news broke that one was coming to our town, it was almost too good to be true. Even better, the restaurant would be only a short drive from our house. Soon after it opened, our daughter and son-in-law came to visit....
by Ashley Osakue | Jul 24, 2024 | Women's Content
Can you recall a time you experienced a win? Have you ever felt defeated? Do you let the fear of failure stop you? Have you ever aspired to achieve a big goal? Perhaps you succeeded and felt great. Or maybe the loss hurt you to the core and left you in shambles....
by Mark Hurlbut | Jul 24, 2024 | Pastors & Leaders Content
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me (1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV).” You will fulfill your ministry if you stay...
by Brent Paulus | Jul 24, 2024 | Men's Content
Everyone loves a good origin story. For years, our favorite stories in oral, written, and now visual format have been full of the great, powerful, brave, and noble heroes whose humble beginnings make them relatable to the masses. Take, for example, a lowly shepherd...
