Have you ever asked yourself why you are here? Why were you born? The most obvious reason is your mother and father’s love for each other prompted them to have children. But why is anyone here? Why did God choose to bring us into existence? Original love. Agapé love. Immense godly love that is ...
Wind Song and Renewal: Spring in the Desert Southwest
Spring in the Desert Southwest is a time for gusty winds and surprising green patience. The land lays expectant and so do we. After enduring months of winter's dormancy and the same trials and hardships in each gray-infused day, we're eager for kinder, warmer, more colorful days and another ...
You and Me Against the World: Christian Wife 101
As a newly married couple, you started out thinking “You and me against the world, babe.” So where did it go wrong? Why did you wake up one morning sitting on opposite sides of the bench when you started out on the same side that celebrated day? It didn’t happen overnight. It happened in small ...
Peace Awaits You on the Mountain: Christian Wife 101
How often has hope for a happy marriage loomed like a cold and forbidding mountain far beyond your reach or desire to scale? Straining your neck, you can't imagine how you'll ever get there. The task seems so formidable you believe turning back and finding the nearest sunny valley to traipse with ...
Joel: Hearts Unto Wisdom Bible Study
In the book of Hosea, God is portrayed as our husband. In Joel, He is the ultimate husbandman. A husbandman is a tiller of the soil who works the land to sow, cultivate, prune, and tend his fields and gardens to produce food for his family and his community, as well as the animals he cares ...