“I’m peculiar.” If she said it once, she said it a million times. That was my mom.  For a number of years, my sister and her son lived with our mom. My nephew always lovingly told her she was “weird”. Her response? “I’m not weird; I’m just peculiar!” She was correct. As one of God’s treasured possessions she was peculiar....

Neil Josephson has been married for over 30 years.  He’s discovered that the biggest challenge in his marriage hasn’t been any of the circumstances that he and his wife have faced.   The biggest threat to being happily married is being selfish. He says, “Here’s what I realized: I could continue to be selfish, or I could be happily...

Is there something wrong with me? Will anyone ever love me again?  Have you caught yourself asking these questions? Have you worried about how you’re going to figure out finances and look after the home while juggling your children’s lives? If so, you are not alone. When I first became a single Mom I asked all these questions too. When you...

At a point in her life, Victoria Childress wore her heart on her sleeve -- literally. In a moment of severe pain and desperation, Victoria etched the word "SAD" on her arm with a knife. She would sit in a state of physical and emotional darkness, trying to mask an invisible pain with one that she inflicted upon herself in attempt to take matters...

If you do a Google search on “wedding stress” you’ll get over 70 million results.  Which is stressful.  Weddings are a joyous celebration, but as any bride or groom knows, they are also inherently stressful. Researchers have found that getting married is actually more stressful than getting fired. Between money issues, family issues, and...

Many people consider depression as a social taboo. As a result, a great majority of people who are depressed do not seek help. They face their battles alone, with no one but themselves to turn to. Their subtle cries for help are silenced, and their grief is discounted to something no more than a mere case of "the blues". Eventually they hit rock...

I don’t like the idea of hell. Hell is not merely an academic issue, but one that is very personal to me. To think that some of my loved ones could spend eternity in a place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and eternal torment is deeply troubling (Matthew 8:12; Rev. 20:10). But despite my emotional reservations, I have come to believe,...