Winsome Smith loves sharing God’s faithfulness and goodness with others at Christian Women Today and related TruthMedia sites. The deep friendships that can form online have both challenged and encouraged her. During her free time she enjoys photography, music, reading and spending time with friends (online and off). Email Winsome.

Poppy Smith, for years a Bible Study Fellowship lecturer, is a popular speaker around the world. Born in England, she has lived in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Kenya where she met her American husband. She is speaking in Australia this month and plans to be in Moldova in October talking to women about their value [...]

“I knew where I belonged, I just couldn’t get out of the mess I was in.”  Have you ever felt like that? Now he’s an award winning musician, but during his early years in Nashville Michael W. Smith nearly lost sight of his dream.  Where do you turn when nothing in your life looks the way [...]

How fearful are you? Here is a video that talks about how God can empower you. The raw power of a storm is magnificent – the towering ominous clouds, the announcement of rumbling thunder, the unrestrained force of the gusting wind.  A storm is one of those unique opportunities in life where a person can [...]

The edges of the screen are fuzzy and peaceful looking. The seats are appropriately spaced. People tilt their seats back with a smile (and with plenty of room on both sides). Children are sitting cross-legged in their seats with their safety belt fastened perfectly around their little waists. The airplane swooshes gently into a sky [...]

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” ~Mother Theresa He is unaware of my presence. His eyes are closed, the patterned quilt above him faintly rising and falling. The small clock radio at his bedside blares an old country station, but the silence is overwhelming. Grandchildren innocently look out from photographs [...]

Sixteen years old and in need of hope he was a hard-shelled kid from a tumultuous home. He had two brothers, four sisters, and a mom who worked three jobs to keep the family afloat. All he needed was hope. He and his oldest brother came to our student ministries group that Wednesday. On Thursday, [...]

I am attending church in my boxer shorts. I haven’t showered yet, but I am enjoying my morning coffee.  And I’m sitting in the front row, listening to the pastor.  No one has made any remarks about my wardrobe, or my coffee, and I’m certain that they won’t.  I am attending a live church service [...]

I’m excited to go to church. I’ve woken early, driven 45 minutes down the highway, and arrived at church with time to shake the greeters’ hands, make small talk in the foyer, and find a comfortable seat. How very spiritual of me. I listen to great worship music, engage with a thoughtful and informative speaker, [...]

In my perfect world, the criminal will be caught, publicly apologize with profuse crying and groveling, and then sent away to the Island of No-Return. Forgiveness? What a ridiculous idea!