Healing and Hope for Victims of Violence
An Interview with Chris Keith
Stalking, rape, harassment, trauma, murder . . . these words represent the enormous reality that domestic violence has become a global epidemic. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence defines domestic violence as . . . Willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and […]
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Love That Lasts
An Interview with Jefferson and Alyssa Bethke
Dating, romance, marriage, sex . . . are you satisfied with your relationships, or do you long for something better? In an “anything-goes” culture that promotes sexual freedom, we are flooded with photoshopped pictures, pornography, sexting, and casual hook-ups. Addictions are spiraling out of control, the #METOO outcries are louder than ever, and relationships that […]
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Living Joyfully with Sorrow
An Interview with Tim and Jamie Schultz
Few things test our faith more than when our loved ones suffer. We question God, we question our faith, we question what we believe. Life can turn upside down in a second. Few people understand this more than Tim and Jamie Schultz. Following God’s leading, Tim left a very financially secure position and entered full-time […]
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From Brain Stem Stroke to Sterling Hope
An Interview with Katherine and Jay Wolf
“For better or worse” . . . “in sickness and health” . . . “’til death do us part” . . . “I DO.” The marriage vows are easy when life is beautiful. It certainly was for the young, vibrant model and her loving, loyal husband preparing to practice law after the bar exam. However, […]
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Living Well
An Interview with Michael Hyatt
Life is so . . . daily. Just as one problem is solved, another one surfaces. We clock in and clock out of work, and eventually life itself becomes robotic and routine. It doesn’t take long for our dreams to diminish into a cloud of dust, leaving us to wonder Is this all there is? […]
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When God’s Wonderful Plan Doesn’t Appear So Wonderful
An Interview with John and Lynn Hampton
How many times have we heard someone say, “God has a wonderful plan for your life”? I stopped counting years ago; maybe you have too. Reconciling the truth that God’s plan for our lives is good when all we are experiencing is pain can cause tremendous confusion. After all, Scripture emphatically says: Jesus “came that […]
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Daring Greatly in a Declining Culture
An Interview with David and Jason Benham
What makes cowards run and champions rise? How is it that some people can face their fears, die to their dreams, and still have an abundant, fulfilling life? The book of Daniel answers these questions. David and Jason Benham know exactly what it’s like to live courageously—like Daniel. Their message leads us all down that path. […]
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Reframing Anxiety: God’s Good Plan in How We’re Made
An Interview with Steve Fischer
Anxiety . . . a word we often label negatively. We tend to put a “fear-based” frame around anxiety, forgetting to consider that anxiety may have a positive purpose. As God made us, anxiety is an alarm system that awakens us to action in the here and now. However, today anxiety is focused on past […]
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Waiting on God: What to Do When God Does Nothing
An Interview with Wayne Stiles
Regardless of age, income, life experience, intelligence, relationship status, emotional well-being, and spiritual beliefs, we will all encounter one unavoidable, universal experience: waiting. Waiting can be as simple as sitting in traffic or as complicated as waiting for relief from pain. Waiting can be terribly irritating and confusing and seem so unproductive, unnecessary, and untimely. […]
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When God Takes Over
An Interview with Chuck Swindoll and Joni Eareckson Tada
She was an active, lovely teenager when the unthinkable happened—a diving accident . . . a broken neck. In July 1967, doctors told Joni Eareckson she would never walk again, and they were right. But after working through the hardest of challenges, she surrendered her life to Christ completely, and God began a work through […]
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The Gift That Keeps on Giving—The Caregiver’s Notebook
An Interview with Jolene Philo
I ran out of ink printing the new-patient forms for my son’s doctor appointment. I’m not kidding. Thirty-five pages and two hours later, I stacked the forms on top of two five-inch education binders already filled with hundreds of pages of medical, therapy, and specialists’ evaluations. I also had two CDs containing a sleep study […]
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How to Find Hope That Lasts
An Interview with Marilyn Meberg
I remember a childhood rhyme kids used to say to tease one another. It ended with something like “. . . first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage.” And somewhere between childhood rhymes and the developed rhythms of adult life, these witty sayings became internalized beliefs—as if life should […]
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