Three Little Weight-Loss Secrets That Make a Big Difference
May 26, 2025 by Julie Morris
Filed under Christian Life, Health and Fitness
By Julie Morris, RN
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to go on a diet in January, but find that your resolves have already dissolved? If so, I want to tell you three little secrets I discovered 25 years ago when I lost my weight.
I am not another diet guru who wants you to buy expensive pills or do exhausting exercises. I’m just someone who cares because I’ve been where you are and I know your frustration. And I’ve leaned some exciting things that will help you, which are too good to keep to myself.
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PEACE AND QUIET
May 25, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Humorous
Running errands with my over-active, over-talkative four-year-old son challenged my reservoir of parenting patience. As we drove the fifteen miles into town and then from bank to post office to grocery store, Luke rehearsed of every thought that had crossed his mind since birth.
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From This Day Forward
May 24, 2025 by Marty Norman
Filed under Christian Life, Family Focus
By Marty Norman
Our God works in mysterious ways. Even in the worst of times he is about the business of reconciliation and healing, wooing and drawing, calling us to himself. There is no situation that the Lord can’t heal; no circumstance too dire in which the Lord can’t bring hope; no wound too deep that he can’t cover it with the balm of his love; and no time-line too long that he can’t repair the years that the locust have stolen.
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Blessing Rising from Rubble
May 23, 2025 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Life Topics
I was a missionary in Haiti for seven months in 1983. Years later I took a church group there. I developed relationships with many Haitians. Some were good friends. I’ve been to the areas in and around Port-au-Prince and know all the street names and places that are in the news—they were the nicest parts of town. I’ve been to buildings that are now flattened, stayed in houses that slid down the hillside. Recent photos of the earthquake’s devastation bring me to tears. I so badly wish I could be there right now.
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Recline in Peace
May 22, 2025 by Emily Chase
Filed under Humor, Stories
By Emily Chase
Crack!
My husband plunks down on our recliner and breaks the mechanism. The chair now has a severe cant to one side. After years of warning our children not to abuse the chair, my husband has broken it himself.
“Don’t worry, Gene,” I assure him. “The chair came with a lifetime warranty.”
