Grab the leash

By Lisa Buffaloe  

“And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones…” (Isaiah 58:11 NAS).

Our little dog can’t wait to get out for his evening walk. He doesn’t care where he’s going—he just wants to get there as fast as possible. Pulling against his leash, he coughs and hacks his way down the sidewalk. Pull…cough….tug…. hack…. the pressure continues as he sniffs, paws, and explores the world.
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Encouragement

By John McNeal  

Have you ever been at work and discouraged at your performance, or just wished you could go back home and go back to bed? What about having a very long day at school only to find that your last class piled as much homework on you as the previous three combined? Then when you walk out to the car, you find that you have a flat tire.

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Accountability Matters

by Sarah Onderdonk  

There is no better mirror than a friend’s eye.
J. Wallace Day

Lion-hearted pastor Chuck Swindoll once referred to the prophet Nathan as the "ultimate accountability partner."  In Nathan, (ref. 2 Samuel 12) it seems we have a streak-free window on the truth-baring aspect of real albeit “tough” love.

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Good Enough for Heaven

By Lisa Buffaloe  

There’s an old joke about two hunters in the woods being chased by a bear. One hunter yells out to the other as he runs past him, “I don’t have to be faster than the bear, I just have to beat you!” Unfortunately most people think the same is true about gaining entrance to heaven.

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Sheltered in His Arms

By Lisa Buffaloe  

"The call came late at night. 'One of the boys is missing… It’s Jack.'

"Hastily, I put on my coat and drove to the Boy’s Home where I worked as Executive Director. Rain and ice pelted the car, and the windshield wipers brushed away furrows of frost. The tires lost traction on a glazing coat of ice covering the bridge.

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