By Jessica Wolstenholm
God’s people have amazing stories! We’d love to share the story of some heroes of the faith and of the church that you may not know a lot about. These are people who God has used to shape His Church. We hope you’ll journey with us the next few weeks as we take this adventure […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
You plunge your arms elbow-deep into the soapy sink water and shove the bottle brush into the crevices of yet another baby bottle that rolled under the crib and laid there forgotten until the stomach-turning stench of sour milk sent you on a hunt for the source. You sigh a deep, sleepy-filled sigh […]
By Jennifer Thorson
When you have young kids, sometimes even the thought of doing devotions as a family is exhausting. But as a mom who wants to make God’s Word a priority, I realize that hard things are worth it. Maybe you’re in this same place. Over 10 years time, my husband and I have found a few […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
David has always been the one in the Bible I’ve related to most. Maybe because he’s a person with a passionate heart for God on the inside who is often a mess on the outside. And he’s always so honest about where he finds himself. When thinking about all of the Biblical characters we are […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
When my daughter began to ask about baptism about a year ago at age 6, I wanted her to make the decision based on knowledge and not just out of curiosity. I wanted her to know what making a step to follow Christ was for, and not just what it saved us against. We had […]
By Editorial Team
Some of my earliest memories are of our home being filled with people…family, friends, those in need…my parents are the most relational people I have ever met. We were always taught the value of people, of our connection to them. We watched my mom and dad nurture and serve and love. My family was built […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
In my dad’s song More to this Life, he sings, “Today I watched in silence as people passed me by, and I strained to see if there was something hidden in their eyes; but they all looked back at me as if to say, ‘Life just goes on.’” We all want to believe in a […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
We all want to raise our kids to love Jesus, understand the Gospel, and live out their faith in a real way. But honestly between driving kids from one place to another, putting in hours at work, feeding and caring for everyone, and tackling the long list of to do’s, it can be challenging to […]
By Melanie Rainer
The Life We Never Expected, the newly released book about special needs parenting from Andrew and Rachel Wilson, starts with this – “This is a book about surviving, and thriving, spiritually when something goes horribly wrong. In our case, that “something” was discovering that both of our children had regressive autism. This book, then, is […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
As I lay in bed last night, wondering what I was going to write for today’s blog post, the only pictures I had in my mind were those of the wildfires still burning out of control in Colorado. My heart was aching for all the people who risk losing their homes, as well as the […]